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VRVS - Virtual Rooms VideoConferencing System 

The Virtual Room VideoConferencing System (VRVS) is an inexpensive tool for remote collaboration and videoconferencing.  To promote further international cooperative research among our participants and other research and educational facilities, AMPATH will become a conduit for VRVS systems connecting from Latin America to the United States.  To do this, a reflector will be installed at FIU, as the default entry point for VRVS connections from Brazil (and other Latin American countries in the future). 

AMPATH will utilize VRVS at our First International Conference from Valdivia, Chile on April 12, 2002.  In addition to broadcasting the proceedings over the Access Grid via VRVS, several presenters will use the system to make their presentations remotely to the attendees gathered in Chile. 

Background: VRVS was designed in 1997 to "provide a low cost, bandwidth-efficient, extensible tool for videoconferencing and collaborative work over networks within the High Energy and Nuclear Physics communities and to some extent within Research and Education at large." It was first designed and implemented at California Institute of Technology (CalTech). For more technical information about VRVS, click here, or click on the logo at right to go to the VRVS home page.