Whn Rod said the Ottawa people wanted to build an Advanced Collaborative Environment (ACE room) here in Moncton, I was sceptical and noncommittal. Videoconfrencing had been done, it had certain capacities, and that was that. The ACE room we set up, though, confirmed for me the proposition in this post: size makes a huge difference in videoconferencing. When you're talking to a 1x1 square, that's one thing. But when the person in the video across the desk is life-sized, that's very different. There's real presence there. Add high-quality sound and multiple points of access and you have something worth exploring. It's still pretty expensive, though, and I won't get into how long it has taken for us to rebuild our ACE room after the move last year. But it makes me thing: I will bet dollars to doughnuts that size makes a big difference for virtual worlds as well.
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