Together across a continent: Bridging time and place with 'Shared Spaces'

From the Jetsons to Back to the Future, videoconferencing has been a fixture in visions of how we imagine the world of tomorrow. Yet the dream of real-life interactions across a screen has stayed just beyond our grasp. Videoconferencing has remained an artificial experience due to limits of technology. But this is about to change.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news8162.html">Together across a continent: Bridging time and place with 'Shared Spaces'</a></p> <p>From the <i>Jetsons</i> to <i>Back to the Future</i>, videoconferencing has been a fixture in visions of how we imagine the world of tomorrow. Yet the dream of real-life interactions across a screen has stayed just beyond our grasp. Videoconferencing has remained an artificial experience due to limits of technology. But this is about to change.</p>