Avaya brings out virtual avatar teleconferencing, Web.Alive.
In this new era of technology, rising costs have made businesses look for more innovative ways to communicate with their employees across the globe, and network specialists Avaya says it has just the solution in Web.Alive.
Web.Alive is the company’s teleconferencing solution that allows users to step into a virtual conference room to interact with their colleagues globally. It is used to improve everyday communication between colleagues.
The solution virtually replicates the environment in which you would like to meet your colleagues, be it in a conference room, your own office or in a lobby.
Once logged in, users will be represented as an avatar and will meet their colleagues’ avatars to begin the discussion.
In addition, there are also keyboard shortcuts that allow users to execute gestures in the virtual environment, such as bow and wave.
However, don’t be fooled by its game-like nature. Although it may be a polygon avatar representing you in the virtual world, Web.Alive is equipped with security features and all the items needed for presentations, such as an interactive whiteboard and a built-in web browser.
The interactive whiteboard can be used to highlight points in a presentation while the browser allows user to do a quick check on facts and figures on the internet. If you want to hold a private discussion with your colleague, you can engage the feature.
Teske said the technology can be used outside the business worlds and applied in education or even the tourism industry. In tourism, it can be used to simulate towns, so that tourist can familiarize themselves with a place before visiting it.
Avaya said a university in Wisconsin has already deployed Web.Alive to create a virtual environment for collaboration and training.
However, one thing that is presently working against Web.Alive is the quality, which largely depends on the local network bandwidth. To counter this, Teske said some of the interactions can be tweaked, like lowering the quality of rendered images, so conversations can be carried out without much interruption.
Web.Alive has been getting attention from several countries in Asia Pacific especially in Indonesia and it is foresees that it is set to pick up even further in the region.
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