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REAL TIME 3D DESKTOP VIDEO CONFERENCING
The aviation industry has been decimated, tourism flattened. Airport throughput times blown-out because of 100% security screening.
The USA policy of sterile flight decks has proven flawed.
Airports that have mistakenly imagined themselves as shopping centres are in for a shock.
Business travel needs a quantum leap. The last one was the birth of the 747 and Concorde generations ago ...
Perhaps the next quantum leap is nowhere near the airport. Coming instead in the form of upgraded video conferencing.
Live, real-time, desktop, broadcast quality, three dimensional video and 'stand next to you' audio earpieces combined with instant document transfer and 'sign on the screen with a pen' real time deal completion.
Maybe the world's aviation designers who have come up with such nifty gadgets as the Flight Management Computer could turn their minds to it and, in the process, save their companies from lean times ahead.
JamesNixon, 29th September 2001
Followup:
Boeing technology to cut film distribution costs by two-thirds
ABC Online Posted: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 23:07 AEDT
Aircraft maker Boeing says it will soon roll out a digital cinema, allowing movie theatres to download movies directly from Hollywood via satellite.
Bob Dean, Boeing's vice president for business development, says the digital cinema service is expected to start in the United States within five months, before being extended worldwide.
Under the system, a theatre would send a signal to Hollywood through a Boeing network operations centre for a movie selection.
The theatre needed a server on which to download the movie, which could then be shown anytime.
The system is expected to cut movie distribution costs by two-thirds.
The service is part of Boeing's operating networks and applications business.
Aside from aircraft manufacturing, Boeing's businesses also include technology for missile defence, integrated battle space, human space flights and launch platforms