Vidyo Inc. Video Conferencing Provides Telepresence for Beijing Olympics Teams
August 13, 2008 – 1:58 amVidyo Inc., one of the first companies to deliver personal telepresence systems, has announced that it will be providing Great Britain’s Royal Yachting Association, with the telepresence services to keep the team in China connected with the support team in Great Britain. Through Vidyo’s “VidyoConferencing” service, the Royal Yachting Association support staff and the sailing team at the Olympic Sailing Center in Qingdao, China will be in constant audio and visual communication with its staff in Hamble, Southampton in the UK, for the duration of the Olympic Games.
Royal Yachting Association Team Manager, Stephen Park:
While we are here in Qingdao it is fantastic that we are able to visually communicate with the team on the ground back home from the heart of the Olympic competition. Although there is a team of sailors and support staff out here in China, there is a significant team of people still in England who have played a key part in the build-up to the Games and will continue to do so throughout them. We want everyone at RYA HQ to be part of our Olympic experience and this Vidyo technology enables us to share our unique insights and experiences and keep the whole ‘team’ together even though we are thousands of miles apart.
Vidyo Inc, unlike other video conferencing and telepresence services, do not require dedicated networks to achieve high definition video with fast frame rates. Vidyo is the first company to license technology and deliver products built upon an entirely new video conferencing architecture that utilizes the recently approved H.264 video compression standard. Vidyo’s new “scalable video coding” technology delivers very high quality video over unreliable networks. The system scales from a telepresence room to high definition desktop video conferencing offering natural, high definition conferencing to desktop and room system participants anywhere in the world.
The 2008 Beijing Olympics marks a special milestone for the Royal Yachting Association, as they celebrate one century of competition in Olympic Sailing. Beginning in the 1908 Olympics in London, the British team swept the competition, winning medals in all classes of the event. To date, no country has been able to beat the UK’s record of 19 gold medals since sailing made its debut as an Olympic sport in 1900.