The IG Virtual Venue

An IG node is a physical representation of a virtual room and as such the place where groups of people congregate to participate in IG sessions and events. Within each IG node, inSORS Grid Virtual Venue software resides on a server. This software is interfaced with participants of an inSORS Grid session via a webpage, as illustrated below.

This webpage is inSORS' Virtual Venue portal through which users enter and exit persistent electronic spaces that provide the environment in which virtual conference and collaboration rooms exist. Virtual rooms are the fundamental units of a Virtual Venue and are analogous to real rooms in that participants in a virtual room can see, hear, and share data with those in the same virtual room —regardless of any participant's temporal or spatial location. Also similar is each particpant's ability to move freely from room to room. The difference, of course, between virtual rooms and actual rooms is that those using the former are physically dispersed throughout the world yet are able to interact as though they were all together in a single location.

With each inSORS Grid node able to accommodate up to 20 people and with inSORS' Virtual Venue software able to link up to 30 virtual rooms, the fully interactive, multimedia telepresence conferencing and collaboration capabilities of the inSORS Grid are virtually unlimited.