I envision a conferencing service that is as easy as a cellphone. Imagine a service with the equivalent of voice dialing …

“Get Rocky, Carl, and Libby”

The service locates the participants, but discovers Libby is busy. It scans forward and backward in time to find Libby is available 30 minutes ago, but only for a few minutes, and is also available an hour from now. It chooses a hour from now and contacts her then.

A hologram of each participant is brought together simultaneously (much like looking at a miniature model of a room projected on the desk or table in front of you).

The group conference takes place with all of the resources of the mini holographic conference room - whiteboard, writing paper, interactive video displays, etc.

The projection is automatically recorded and all of the holographic materials are optionally transferred to real objects at the end of the meeting.

With this system, there is no more hunting for a convenient time to meet and is much more productive since everyone is “in the same place”.

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