Ask HN: What is your favorite tele-presence white-board system?

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by mey • 16 years ago

7 5 16 years ago

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What do you prefer to use when working remotely with someone to draw up diagrams and ideas free hand and hopefully collaboratively?

canadaduane• 16 years ago

I recently heard of vyew.com via a local hackerspace but haven't tried it yet.

sz• 16 years ago

A dual question: what hardware do you use?

Wacom tablets are expensive but drawing with a mouse sucks.

mey• 16 years ago

Using a mouse and full size keyboards. Some people may use trackpads on laptops, so any interface designed to be speedy with a mouse would be nice.

wwortiz• 16 years ago

The little wacom bamboo tablets are actually pretty cheap.

sswam• 16 years ago

I use a pair of vnc sessions so we can both work in our own space without latency, and also see and help with what the other person is doing. The vnc sessions are routed over ssh and via a server (to avoid nat problems). I use this mainly for pair-progamming, but it's also good for drawing / whiteboard stuff I suppose, you can run gimp or whatever in it.

Ask HN: What is your favorite tele-presence white-board system?

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