Here's a demo of the Lotus Sametime and OLIVE integration:
- A Virtual Meeting Reservation System that allows a meeting organizer to reserve a 3D room type (ex, auditorium, board room, classroom), room equipment (ex, projector screen size, chairs, and podiums), and to invite mandatory and optional attendees.
- Invitations are sent out through the user's native email system (e.g. Lotus Notes), and if accepted display in their native calendaring system.
- Presenting on 3D screens and viewing by all participants a spectrum of media including MS Powerpoint files, streaming videos (Windows Media Player® based), any software application running on a Windows desktop, and collaborative whiteboards.
- A Lotus Sametime plug-in so users can achieve single sign-on to OLIVE from Lotus Sametime, instantly invite colleagues to join a 3D meeting directly from their Lotus Sametime client, or schedule a future meeting through the Virtual Meeting Reservation System.
- Presence awareness of other OLIVE or Sametime users logged in. Users can quickly join a colleague in a virtual environment by teleporting to their location.
- Avatar profiles through integration with any social networking system like LinkedIn, Facebook, Lotus Connections, a Learning Management System or enterprise HR system so users can view the profile of another meeting attendee by right clicking on their avatar.
- Simplified firewall port configuration and compatibility so IT departments can set the communications for OLIVE to work through two firewall ports. OLIVE has always supported being able to deploy entirely behind a firewall.
- Support for 3D model import into OLIVE for Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya, Google Sketchup, Blender, Poser Pro, FaceGen, and Softimage, and other content authoring tools which provide COLLADA file export options.
For more information, check out the entire press release here.
This is some cool stuff
ReplyDeleteIn an implementation without Forterra, How does Connections support audio and video content posted to user sites, and streaming these? What streaming partners or software would you recommend that Connections been integrated with to support streaming without the entire file having to be downloaded on user terminal as well as other forms of live streaming for both audio and video?
ReplyDeleteHi Shoma,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your wonderful question!!! Just to clarify, are you asking how Connections integrates with sites such as YouTube, Viddler, SlideShare? If so, Lotus Connections integrates with these sites very nicely. In fact, this same blog that you see here is also posted internally in IBM's Lotus Connections deployments and the YouTube video that you see above works great there!
I hope this answers your question. Let me know if you need anything else!
Luis,
ReplyDeletedo you have any code samples of how you integrated the video and audio stuff with Connections? I have been charged with creating a video blog template for Connections 2.0.1 that will also need to work for 2.5. Any leads?
Duane,
ReplyDeleteNot sure I understand your question. You can today embed video into a Lotus Connections blog. The way I usually do it is that I upload the video to YouTube and then copy-paste the code that YouTube gives me to embed the content in a new web page.
Is this what you were after ?
Thanks, Luis. We don't want to post the video outside our company servers, so the youtube.com option will not work for us. One of our developers used some code he found on the Internet to post a link from a video stored in Sharepoint. The code he found broke some Connections functionality! Yikes!
ReplyDeleteI see.. if you want to send me the link to the video privately via email, I can test it on our internal servers and see if the same thing happens.
ReplyDeleteWe figured out the code issue - duplicate Javascript class that confused the heck out of LC. The developer fixed it, but it was nightmare for us, the LC support team who were not told it was being coded.
ReplyDeleteI opened a PMR about the issue of allowing too much control by the users. I am trying to get the code from the developer now to submit for the PMR. We would like more of a Quickr customization approach. Make sense?
Yes, makes sense. We'll have to find the right balance of blog (and theme) customization allowed by the end user. Based on what I've heard, the majority of implementations want to allow end users to customize the blog, but I see where that can be dangerous :)
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