http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/ Engadget Comments for Inbrics' SoIP S1 tries to make videophone converts out of us yet http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/Jan 13th 2010 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeext]]>Jan 13th 2010 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/http://bit.ly/inbrics-m1-details

but for this one... ah, the only comment I can say is the girl on the wallpaper looks enviably good.]]>Jan 13th 2010 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/Jan 13th 2010 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/
I really think that is going to be a leaping point on the video phones. When you can look at one another. I use skype to call my family so my daughter can talk to grandma across the country and it is always a bit weird to have the other person be looking off to the side, or down below, or anywhere other than us.

Or as an alternate, maybe it would be possible to place 4 cameras, one on each side of the LCD screen, and use software to interpolate them into one image. The software could then, in theory, slightly change the perspective of the image so that it always makes eye contact. So if my video window is in the upper left of my screen, the top and left cameras use more data than the right and bottom changing my screen perspective to match where I am looking (or where the app is placed on screen).

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The reason videophones sell in Asian and somewhat in Europe is nothing more then a cultural difference. We are a huge nation (land mass size) that has always embraced expansion. In our early days, this meant family's splitting apart living on opposite sides of the country, and only communicating by letter, later by the phone, and then by email. This is 300 years, of heavy non-face-to-face communication, embedded in our culture. People in America just don't care that much about seeing who they are talking to, and I don't think they ever will anytime in the near future, its just not in the culture.

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I still wouldn't buy one. But for the first time I'd seriously think about maybe possibly buying one.]]>Jan 13th 2010 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/Jan 13th 2010 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/Jan 14th 2010 4:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/
I don't get it, don't people have computers now? ]]>Jan 14th 2010 4:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/Jan 14th 2010 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/inbrics-soip-s1-tries-to-make-videophone-converts-out-of-us-yet/Jan 15th 2010 12:09AM