Picturephone

The proposed video/telephone introduced by AT&T at the 1964 World's Fair in New York. Many thought it would flourish by the end of the 1980s. Real time video is expected to be widely used in the 21st century.

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PicturePhone partners with Tely Labs

Still, Gertner may be too harsh in judging the Picturephone only as a fiasco.

Mother of invention: The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

Second, a VTC is not always just about having a picturephone conversation.

The Lazy Person's guide to desktop videoconferencing

TelePresence Tech, a designer and manufacturer of advanced communications systems, and PicturePhone Direct, a value-added distributor of video conferencing products, announced on Friday (15 June) that they have signed a distribution agreement for telepresence systems in the US.

TelePresence Tech and PicturePhone Direct sign distribution agreement

But one might well have said the same thing in 1964 when the Bell System introduced its PicturePhone. That it was bound to be a success seemed self-evident.

A conduit for new technology: videoconferencing can be a cheaper, faster, safer way to spread the news about the latest transportation innovations

Starting with the Picturephone, ISDN, home information systems, and video-on-demand, every vision of the future that has compelled the industry has been wrong.

On the mark? For better or for worse, "experts" are predicting our future. (Forward Thinking)

The airline Kubrick envisioned running the lunar shuttle, Pan Am, has more or less gone the way of the dinosaurs, and the Bell Picturephone a scientist used to ring up his daughter is a gadget most consumers have decided really isn't worth it.

2001: an out-of-place odyssey: almost nothing about 2001 wound up the way we thought it would. Forget Kubrick's 33-year-old predictions--how about from Jnauary? (notes from a blond)

All-purpose personal communicator systems geared to societies "on the go" involve multifunctions: cell phone, e-mail capability, PC, Web surfer, fax, video-television, picturephone, AM-FM radio, global positioning system, and so on, also are in the running.

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Human factors and appearance design considerations of the Model II PICTUREPHONE station set.

Telepresence in videocommunications: a study on stereoscopy and individual eye contact

"Anatomy of a failure: Picturephone revisited." Telecommunications Policy, May/June: 307-316.

Structuring distance-meeting environments

Picturephone service introduced between New York, Chicago and Washington...

Comm News soars into its fourth decade

AT&T's Picturephone, Nimslo's 3D camera, and Polaroid's instant home movie system, Polavision, are all innovations that failed for lack of demand.