Teleconference

A teleconference or teleseminar is the live exchange and mass articulation of information among several persons and machines remote from one another but linked by a telecommunications system. Terms such as audio conferencing, telephone conferencing and phone conferencing are also sometimes used to refer to teleconferencing.

Teleconference using a video link. Simply due to costs, teleconferences are frequently limited to audio links (telephone or computer-based).

The telecommunications system may support the teleconference by providing one or more of the following: audio, video, and/or data services by one or more means, such as telephone, computer, telegraph, teletypewriter, radio, and television.[1]

Internet teleconferencing

Internet teleconferencing includes internet telephone conferencing, videotelephony, web conferencing, and augmented reality conferencing.

Internet telephony involves conducting a teleconference over the Internet or a Wide Area Network. One key technology in this area is Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP).

A working example of an augmented reality conferencing was demonstrated at the Salone di Mobile in Milano by AR+RFID Lab.[2]

See also

• List of video telecommunication services and product brands – Wikipedia list article
• Media space – Electronic settings in which groups of people can work together even when not present in the same place and time
• Telecollaboration – A form of network-based language teaching
• Telepresence – Set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present in another place

References

1.  This article incorporates public domain material from the General Services Administration document: "Federal Standard 1037C". (in support of MIL-STD-188)
2. AR conferencing show in Milano