HP has unveiled SkyRoom, a new videoconferencing software that allows users can share any type of application supported on their PC or workstation, including office documents, streaming video and interactive 3-D applications.
According to HP, the new software offers live, real-time collaboration for instant face-to-face meetings. It is based on video and image communication technology developed in HP Labs, the company’s central research arm. It comes from a combination of multiuser videoconferencing and a capability to share display information securely than with actual transfer of data and processing functions.
According to HP, the new videoconferencing software’s video engine enables participants to see the presenter’s display through a multiway videoconferencing session. The video engine is multithreaded to utilise multiprocessor and multicore processing technologies.
In addition, its image engine gives remote users a view of the host presenter’s desktop and its applications. It enables the display of 2-D and 3-D graphics, full-motion video and multidisplay on a system that only has a 2-D graphics card.
The company said that the SkyRoom software on the presenter’s system monitors and updates changes in screen appearance, then compresses and encrypts the information before sending it to the participants, where it is decrypted, decompressed and updated.
The SkyRoom is available preinstalled on the HP Z800, Z600, Z400 and xw4600 workstations. Customers using current HP workstations, desktops, notebooks or non-HP systems can purchase SkyRoom for $149.
