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Immersive reality

A former undergraduate IT lab at the University of Salford has made way for the world’s most flexible immersive reality environment. Known as the ‘Octave,’ the octagonal projection space can be reconfigured to many types of industrially familiar systems to assess best fit for emerging applications, and features a video capture system which the group … Read More

Multi-platform broadcasting

HD broadcasts detail the games The 2008 Games generated more television coverage than ever, with more than 5,000 hours air time, up from 3,800 hours during the Athens Games in 2004. China Central Television (CCTV), which owned all video rights to the Games for mainland China and Macau, made content available on TV, Mobile phones … Read More

Where are the doctors when you need one?

Finding a doctor or specialist could soon be as easy as picking up a phone. telemedicine consultant, Vincenzo Gulla, gives his insights into telehealth.   The idea of telehealth has been around for many years. Telemed­icine generally refers to the use of communications and information technologies for the delivery of clinical care. In this discipline … Read More

Rising from the ashes of the Black Country

An interactive building for creativity and learning is spearheading the regeneration of West Bromwich. The Public, with a series of gallery spaces for the 21st century, is this and much more. Geny Caloisi investigates. Follow this link to see the PDF: Rising from the ashes of the Black Country Sep08

Shopping for IPTV Dec07 Featured

Shopping for IPTV

When shopping channel QVC needed to update the way its employees accessed information and worked, it found that the solution lay in internet protocol (IP) technology and it used Exterity equipment to meet its goal. The company decided that it wanted to stream TV to employees’ desktops as well as to communal areas of the … Read More