TWO WAY VIDEO PHONE

Two-way video communication systems employ a videophone at each end. The videophone
incorporates a personal video camera and display, a microphone and speaker, and a data-
conversion device.
A videophone is a telephone with a video camera and video display, capable of simultaneous
video and audio communication. Videoconferencing implies the use of this technology for a
group or organizational meeting rather than for individuals, in a videoconference.
The inventor of two way video phone is Gregorio Zara (March 8, 1902–October 15, 1978) was a
Filipino scientist best known as the inventor of the videophone, the first two-way electronic
video communicator, in 1955.
Among the technological precursors to the videophone were telegraphic image transmitters
created by several companies, such as the wirephoto used by Western Union, and the
teleostereograph developed by AT&T's Bell Labs, which were forerunners of today's fax
(facsimile) machines.
Before the two way videophone came to be, they use telephone and telegraph.
Cheaper than regular phone calls and arguably more personal, video calls allow people to watch
their grandkids grow up and see their cousin's new apartment from the comfort of their own
home. It's redefined distance and geography making it easier for people to stay in touch.
Zara's video telephone invention enabled the caller and recipient to see each other while
conversing, laying the foundation for video-conferencing.
It increases the efficiency and trust on everyone may it be social political cultural or economic.