June 8, 2011
Vidyo Aims to Lower Price of Telepresence
The move puts Vidyo, which has been selling desktop and room systems, in even more direct competition with the likes of Cisco and Polycom by moving them into the high-end telepresence service — with a major twist. Vidyo’s pricing is about 10 percent of the existing players’ highest-end systems — the ones that use special furniture and lighting to create immersive telepresence experience — and its approach is more about connecting many different endpoints than reproducing the impact of a face-to-face executive session.
