The Virtual Meeting is a Multimedia teleconferencing (MMTC) system. It consists of a suite of applications which create an interactive Multimedia communications environment that can be used to conduct meetings, lectures and presentations between participants in many geographically dispersed locations. The system is designed to be used concurrently with an audio conference call and adds the ability to control and synchronize the simultaneous presentation of text, graphics, images and video on every participants screen from one location.
The Virtual Meeting system allows people with ordinary desktop computers and modems to visually communicate while talking on an ordinary audio conference call.The person who has the floor in a Virtual Meeting can control the simultaneous presentation of slides, QuickTime movies or video clips, live sketching or the documents that were created with any Macintosh application. A meeting participant can electronically raise his or her hand at any time. When the meeting moderator recognizes the question, they give that person the conference floor and their photograph is displayed in each participant's Current Speaker Window. The meeting protocols supported are moderated and un-moderated meetings as well as circle and roundtable discussions. The Virtual Meeting is a software product and requires no special hardware.
The Virtual Meeting is scalable. Virtual broadcasting networks can be built to support from 2 to thousands of simultaneous users using Local or Wide Area Networks, or modems.
The Virtual Meeting Demo System provided is a fully functional system that can be used for
