Connected Consumer › Weekly Updates › August 11, 2009

Cisco’s Big Bet on Consumer Telepresence

The video phone holds an iconic place in the American technology lore. From black-and-white science fiction movies to Jetsons’ cartoons, many of us were exposed to a futuristic vision of talking to far-flung friends and family through a video display. While consumers have embraced visual communication in the last few years, it hasn’t been with video phones. Instead, most consumers video chatting today do it on a computer using an integrated webcam and popular software like Skype. Given this reality, is it far-fetched to start thinking about visual communication on the living room TV?

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