It was called Confravision and it connected London, Bristow, Birmingham, Glasgow, and Manchester, then later connected the UK and Sweden. Meanwhile in 1971, in the UK, a visual collaboration system was launched by the British Post Office. I’m not sure how successful she was though. The PicturePhone did, however, facilitate Keum Ja Kim though, a 15-year-old soloist with the World Vision Orphan Choir, to audition for Robert Merrill, a star with the Metropolitan Opera in 1965. Probably because of the cost -$160 per month for each end point, that’s almost $1000 a month in today’s money (or £755 to us Brits) so most domestic households and businesses could not afford it. By the end of the 70’s it became clear that despite all the marketing efforts made, the PicturePhone was doomed. Unfortunately for AT&T it wasn’t exactly an instant hit. A monumental landmark in Video Conferencing, the AT&T presented the PicturePhone at the World Fair in New York in 1964. Fast forward a mere 37 years and you get the real deal.
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