Cisco Expo Germany 2009 Opening

Cisco Expo Germany 2009 Live Orchestra Opening via Telepresence

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Science & Technology

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• Cisco
• Expo
• Cisco Expo
• Telepresence

[bgc01]

Now that's cool....

[anothercheater]

Grossartig!

[theogerg]

This was a lot of fun to watch! I have put on similar musical demonstrations using pre-telepresence technology (read: regular low-bandwidth, non-HD videoconferencing) before. We definitely had to do some magic to overcome the latency inherent in the system to make it look like musicians were collaborating across the link.

Although the latency is quite small with Cisco telepresence, I would need to be convinced that what we see in this video was not also helped with a little bit of magic.

[sajithkaimal]

Well, musicians may be dealing with latency issues themselves or not, but there is NO latency with Cisco Telepresence systems that can be noticed by humans. I can confidently tell this because I have used it! The performance and quality is just amazing.

[bobbycornetto]

They wouldn't need a derived beat. Musicians deal with latency issues all the time because of the relatively slow speed of sound--especially opera singers and conductors. When the singers reach the more virtuosic moments in their music, the conductor follows them and they just keep a very strict tempo.

[jeffreyrodman]

While Cisco's latency looks gimmicked (real systems aren't zero latency like this, perhaps the far-end singers were presented with a derived beat to compensate), the audience probably had a much better experience than we see here. YouTube isn't doing justice to the image on the monitors - telepresence systems (Polycom and others, not just Cisco) look fantastic in real life, and it really can replace a lot of business travel. Love the singers in ties!

[BamzGula]

Awesome--this is really fun! This totally increases the access in a satisfying way.

[louisewatts]

Friggin' fantastic!!

If video can be this kind of experience-- who needs to stand in line at the airport!!

[fpoem]

???

[funnier1]

Love it!  No latency!