Vidyo Demos High-End 4K Video Conferencing

Vidyo announces telepresence system that uses Barco's 140-inch virtual canvas.

After gaining some traction in 2010 and 2011, telepresence has fallen somewhat off the radar. However, communication solutions company, Vidyo, recently received additional funding from Juniper Networks and keeps telepresence systems in the news. The company has announced a telepresence system that uses Barco's 140-inch virtual canvas to deliver a 4K stream for videoconferences.

The new solution provides a solution to show both participants and content on the same screen.

"Currently the choice is between hugely expensive telepresence systems or lesser-quality, hard-to-use video conference rooms," said Amir Shaked, Vidyo's senior vice president of product management. "We are setting a new standard in terms of telepresence quality, flexibility and price point that create new markets unaddressable by legacy technologies."

Vidyo technology by itself is completely software-based and includes adaptive video layering, which uses H.264 Scalable Video Coding to provide optimized output for each endpoint. Vidyo claims that the technology delivers error resiliency and low latency rate matching to enable collaborative video over the Internet, LTE and 4G networks.