Hacking Skype for Better Teleconferencing
David Schneider of IEEE Spectrum has an interesting article up about a system he set up to improve his Skype-mediated telepresence at their editorial meetings. Physically, the system consists of four oblong wooden boxes, distributed along their conference table, mounting ten USB devices between them (two webcams and eight microphones) and some custom software that uses the Skype API to allow him to switch between them remotely in real time.
