Video conferencing continues to play an important role in not only personal communications but also for connecting with colleagues and partners for business communications.
When it comes to important business communications, these video conferencing sessions must provide an optimal experience.
SightSpeed (News - Alert) provides video conferencing solutions that offer users the ability to have face to face communications while saving time, hassle, and money spent on travel.
In addition, SightSpeed offers their customers tips on how they can optimize their video conferencing sessions.
According to the company, factors that can affect the video conferencing sessions include Internet connections, headsets and sound quality, webcam choice and setup and SightSpeed setup.
The Internet connection of both participants in the video conferencing session is vital to whether or not users will experience a clear and easy call, or choppy, fuzzed video and audio.
Also important to the video conferencing session is the user's choice in headset. Headsets have the ability to ensure good sound quality and should include microphones to remove echoes.
Choosing a quality Webcam for the video conferencing session is also key. According to SightSpeed, "price infers quality in this case... as a rule, stay away from anything under $50."
And finally, having all of these elements in place can still keep the optimal video conferencing session from occurring if the user is not video ready. SightSpeed offers the following tips and tricks for making the video experience and optimal one.
- Lots of light, having a window in the room isn’t always enough... sometimes you need to turn on a light behind your camera to shine a light on things
- Position yourself in the middle of your video screen so that you’re face is the center piece
- Be close enough to the camera so you can see your eyes in the video... this is about face to face communications! People want to see your expression!
- Make your background interesting... a white wall background washes you out... and clean up that room!
- Wear solid colors, sometimes those stripes can dizzy your friends. White makes you look washed out... adds some color to your wardrobe
- Handwavers, time to maintain yourselves. Keep an even keel or your participant will get dizzy!
For more, check out the Video Conferencing channel on TMCnet.
Stefania Viscusi is an established writer and avid reader. To see more of her articles, please visit Stefania Viscusi’s columnist page.