Angles of Reflection is a series of articles written by Da-Lite which reviews the best practices for designing and specifying visual displays coupled with application basics for today's challenging system designs.

In June, Adam Teevan wrote an article that discusses large format, or "life size" video conferencing. In this article, Adam discusses:

The definition of large format videoconferencing
Importance of lighting in large format videoconferencing environments
Effects of ambient lighting
Selection of projection surfaces for use in large format videoconferencing

Here's a summary of this issue of Angles of Reflection:

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What we mean by “large format” is any videoconferencing system in which the images being transmitted between users end up on a display that is big enough to be approximately life-sized. This is significant because much of the point of using videoconferencing at all is for the way it allows the nuance of communicating directly and in person to be replicated between remote locations. Body language, facial expressions and everything else we express nonverbally while speaking are all available with videoconferencing but only if presented at a scale that can be easily seen by others. When your conversation partners have been significantly miniaturized by a small screen, the benefits of the conversation’s visual component are in danger of shrinking as well.

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