Online Meeting
Using a webcam to chat in real time over the Internet is often a frustrating experience: there’s nothing like jerky, unsynchronized movements to distract you. But a startup company out of Cornell University called SightSpeed has developed software that enables delay-free conversations over the Internet: you can see lip and eyebrow movements essentially as they happen.
Toby Berger, director of Cornell’s digital signal compression and video encoding lab, started SightSpeed in 2001 to commercialize technology that speeds up the encoding and decoding needed to send and receive video over the Internet. With exclusive licenses from Cornell and more than $1 million in venture capital, mainly from the Roda Group of Berkeley, CA, the company released its software this past winter and has sold it to two corporate customers; Berger says three more deals are in the works.
Keep Reading
Most Popular
Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why.
And that's a problem. Figuring it out is one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time and a crucial step towards controlling more powerful future models.
How scientists traced a mysterious covid case back to six toilets
When wastewater surveillance turns into a hunt for a single infected individual, the ethics get tricky.
The problem with plug-in hybrids? Their drivers.
Plug-in hybrids are often sold as a transition to EVs, but new data from Europe shows we’re still underestimating the emissions they produce.
Google DeepMind’s new generative model makes Super Mario–like games from scratch
Genie learns how to control games by watching hours and hours of video. It could help train next-gen robots too.
Stay connected
Get the latest updates from
MIT Technology Review
Discover special offers, top stories, upcoming events, and more.