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SmartMeeting

smartMeeting Ver. 2.x
Better Meetings
http://www.smartmeeting.com/

smartMeeting is a revolutionary new conferencing, collaboration and live presentation system that premiers a new type of online meeting: a 3-D, fully-immersive, voice-enabled with spatial 3D sound, avatar-driven, multi-featured virtual office space.

smartMeeting is the first company in the world to take on the challenge of recreating in 3-D virtual space the characteristics, traits and facilities available in our normal physical working places.

The effectiveness of this approach can only be appreciated in first person by maneuvering one's own virtual body within the smartMeeting office space, while interacting with other people and with the many available presentation facilities.

The use of avatars replaces the need for webcams and for the high-bandwidth requirements that come with them.

smartMeeting fully operates within 28.8 Kbps of bandwidth, an achievement rare to match even among much less sophisticated tools.

Voice quality is good and all of the participants' microphones are open at all times with no need to press a button to activate one's own microphone.

smartMeeting not only integrates a full set of Web conferencing facilities including Powerpoint presentations, whiteboards, co-browsing, document sharing, text chat, multimedia playback, invitation management and more, but it also adds some very innovative additions:

Persistent content.

Shared Pointer function.

Shared live XML/RSS data feeds.

Shared real-time manipulation of all environments objects.

User Profiles with management, editing and search functions.

Screenshots of any view or content.

Virtual PDA for extended function and content management.

Simultaneous participation by participants in 2D and 3D modes.

Avatars with speaker identification, simulated lip-synching, facial expressions

Firewall transparency.

smartMeeting virtual offices are made up of a realistically looking office space, consisting of multiple presentation rooms and a relaxation area. Attendees to a meeting in that space can work in separate groups spread across the various office areas without disturbing each other.

Spatial sound facilities (another smartMeeting premiere) allow only people in your proximity to be heard and cause all sounds in the office space to accurately reflect their point of origin stereophonically.

smartMeeting virtual offices can be made to be persistent as real office buildings and as such they preserve each and every aspect of the space being used from one session to the next.

If you upload documents to a room, they will remain there. If you leave a slide on the projector it will be there next time you come in, and so on.

Overall, smartMeeting offers a truly innovative approach to online meetings, one that is bound to make a historical difference in the way we think and approach online collaborative work.

smartMeeting is an effective conferencing and collaboration tool that offers a revolutionary approach to online work while optimizing at best the resources needed to make such meetings productive and with a much higher degree of "humanness".

smartMeeting can operate also as a normal Web conferencing tool by utilizing its 2-D modality. This allows participants who do not have a sufficiently capable graphic card/display adapter (requires OpenGL support and at least 16 MB of video RAM) in their PC to participate in a smartMeeting anyhow.

The 2-D mode operates just like a normal Web conferencing system, with a unique and rather easy to use user interface.

The price of smartMeeting is also very affordable and a full 30-day try-out account is available for anyone who wants to sign-up for it.

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