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A Hole in Space LA-NY, 1980 -- the mother of all video chats
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2013Dec 6
In 1980, artists Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz (K&S) created a "Hole in Space" by linking bigger-than-life displays in New York and LA with a satellite feed. It was the mother of all video chats -- they showed that size and bandwidth matter in communicating presence and emotion. Products begin with a vision followed by an engineering prototype. If the prototype is successful, it may be followed by an expensive, restricted market product, which with further refinement, may end up a ubiquitous, mass market product. Hole in Space is an engineering prototype illustrating K&S's vision of large screen teleconferencing. Hole in Space was only one K&S project. For an overview of a quarter century of their pioneering artistic achievement, see the Electronic Cafe International archival Web site at: http://www.ecafe.com/museum/history/k... You can see an excerpt (4m 49s) from this video at    • Excerpts from A Hole in Space -- the ...   For more information on the artists and the event, see: http://cis471.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-...

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