Mirageblocks is a very interesting concept. Merging 3D projector, Kinect and Capture technology you can start to quickly and easily virtualise real world objects. As the blog states this could have many different applications. Taking online shopping to the next level is certainly one but I also see plenty of opportunities within the enterprise. One
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No Comments » One potential issue preventing OCS and Lync adoption could be the relative lack of features that have been built into existing PBX systems over a number of years. One such feature is the ability to immediately record a call to a client account. This is a very common requirement in the Legal industry where Lawyers must be
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Without doubt the most powerful aspect of any UC solution is the ability to communicate faster and with greater intelligence with your customers. Here is a quick video of how you can achieve this with Lync.
There are now plenty of examples of the open source community developing applications for the Kinect. Take a look over here at the Kinect Hacks website. Here is one of my current favourites form the American Sign Language Association and Georgia Tech College of Computing
I love finding examples of Unified Communications working within a business application and for a manufacturer of products there can be nothing more important than integrating their machines into the company communication system. Wonderware have a case study on the Microsoft site on how they have coded OCS presence and instant messaging into their monitoring
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Via the top blog of voipnorm here are a couple more examples of application integration possible with Lync. The demo is provided by the Convergent UC guys. Lync and Vocera: Lync Application Example:
Take a look at the new Lync API. This is for me the most exciting basis of unified communications, the technology alone provides business value but when embedded into business applications the value proposition explodes.
In a previous post about conference calls Dave Grady caught perfectly the frustrating experience that occurs everyday in every office in the modern world. The curse of the first five minutes of a conference call. Microsoft’s new Lobby feature in their upcoming “Communication Server 14″ release could be a solution to this curse. The “CS14″ team over
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Fire up the UC use case folder. Chris over at his blog has detailed a fantastic looking app that integrates Bing Translator with the Communication Server “14″ platform. This allows IM conversations to be translated into 32 different languages. For further details go take a look at Chris’ blog post. This has got me thinking as to
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