Videoconferencing. Video conferencing is live, visual connection between two or more remote parties over the internet that simulates a face-to-face meeting. Video conferencing is important because it joins people who would not normally be able to form a face-to-face connection. Videoconferencing. - videoconferencing, also spelled video conferencing, refers to the transmission of pictures and imagery (via video) and sounds (via audio) between two or more physically separate locations. Once the sole province of the corporate boardroom, videoconferencing is used today in telemedicine, distance education, theatrical productions, political trials, and other circumstances in which the ability to “be here now” is desired. Travel fears immediately following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and the global coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, which resulted in the shut down of businesses and schools around the world, combined with later technological advances to make videoconferencing a mainstay of contemporary life.
- The first conceptualization of image transfer emerged along with the development of wire-delivered audio in the 1870s, but the first formal attempts at videoconferencing began in the United States in the 1920s. In 1927 Bell Labs connected Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and other officials in Washington, D.C., with AT&T president Walter Gifford in New York City; the two-way audio connection was accompanied by a one-way video connection from Washington. D.C., to New York. Experimentation continued during the 1930s in Europe, where television technologies were more mature. By 1964, AT&T was ready to introduce its first public videoconferencing tool—a videophone called the Picturephone—at the World’s Fair. After spending $500 million on development and predicting one million users by 1980, AT&T was stunned when the Picturephone turned out to be a financial failure, garnering only about 500 subscribers.
Modern developments - In its early days, videoconferencing seemed to many to be more a high-tech toy than a necessary communications tool: Videoconferences could be conducted only out of specially equipped rooms costing from $250,000 to $1,000,000 or more. It was only after the arrival of low-cost solid-state memory in the late 1980s that “set-top” systems capable of converting television units into videoconferencing tools started becoming available, with prices at a more manageable $10,000 or so. Set-tops, often configured to stand on rolling carts, were responsible for broadening videoconferencing’s uses beyond the traditional office. New Zealand director Peter Jackson used it to coordinate multiple film crews shooting The Lord of the Rings films (the first of which was released in 2001) in remote New Zealand locations, and U.S. President George W. Bush famously videoconferenced with his advisers in Washington, D.C., on days when he was at his Texas ranch
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