August 3, 2004
Camera phones talk to one another
MIT Lab Director, Michael Bove, an expert in visual media and self-described Media Lab "lifer," describes for PC World, what's cooking in its new Consumer Electronics Lab, the emergence of electronic ecosystems, and just exactly what will be left for PCs to do. This caught my eye:
"It may well be the case that in the future we wouldn't have a videoconferencing system. Everyone comes in with a camera phone, and you flip open the lid and you put it on the table in front of you. The camera phones talk to one another, they figure out who's speaking, they get the picture of the person who's speaking, and the microphones get together and find the best copy of the voice of whoever's speaking, or in fact collaboratively process the voice they're picking up and produce a better version of the voice than any one of them could do.
And that's what gets transmitted somewhere else. There isn't a computer that's managing it. It's all being done by these individual devices acting in concert."
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