User:ArtemVernik/Video conferencing

Video conferencing became a great communication and technological tool after it came into the market. It has become a revolutionary tool of business due to its ability to provide live audio and video to few parties at once. The great communicational tool became an accomplishment due to allowing it users to communicate with each other while being in different locations; sometimes being at a much stretched distance. User friendly experience for most users of a simple task of connecting to the web and then directing the call to a specific party allowed the technology to be used by many. The use of technology exceeded into advanced areas in going as far as educational method, business method and communication method. The cutting edge technological breakthrough gained positive support from many users, but it also became the problematic issue in online safety and online criminal activity.

Video Conferencing Described
The use of video conferencing, or in similarly definition as video call, brought user friendly process which included the use of a specific device to connect to other similar devices via the use of internet. The devices that could be used in the process are: personal computers (Windows or Apple), webcams, video telephones, dedicated videoconferencing devices, pocket PC (cell phone), digital cameras, video recording devices and audio recording devices. Those devices allowed the ability to have a conversation with someone in the different location by transferring the video and audio image into each other’s receiving device like a screen and speakers.

Brief History
The arrival of video conferencing featured in the first prototype of a video phone, in mid of 20th century, has played a significant part to beginning of the international use of video calling. The first prototype of the video phone became available in 1964 at the Disney Land and New York’s world fair by a popular company AT & T, where the first phone was viewed by public for the first time. The first video transmitting prototype allowed a very small transfer of video frames (1 frame in 2 seconds, comparing to modern 30 frames per second) which was not seen as a precise and the cutting edge tool to converse with other groups. After it arrival, it popularity grew in size and therefore calling attention of businesses. In 1970’s, the phone became available to the market and it popularity died down right after few months of it use. The reason was that the “bulky”, “non user friendly” equipment that was costing companies $125 a month to be connected to the system. The membership fees and the not yet progressed technological features of the device resulted in it being announced to be the product a head of it time. It took 25 years for further improvement of the device. In 2000’s video conferencing became more popularised then even due to connection possibilities and smaller dollar tags on the device.

The Use of Video Conferencing
After a greater accomplishment of the device, the use of video conferencing became popularised within the business sector of the population. Live video conversations became a great idea for international companies to see and hear each other’s ideas, without actually traveling in person or in group to either location. Businesses and private companies certainly became affiliated with encouragement of video conferencing technology due to them gaining a wonderful tool which revolutionised the world market’s relations. Although video conferencing became affiliated with the business image, it has also become a great tool in educational, personal leisure, military surveillance, medical, training, security and in safety sectors at various locations. The great expectations of the future include a virtual life, which could even represent the end of any other type of communication tool.

Issues in Virtual Conferenc
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The problematic issues in video conferencing that became the concern withing many activist groups was the question of level of human safety, privatization of private property and criminal use of the device.