mbrace new technology as never before. The world into which AT&T introduced PicturePhone marvelled at basic telephones and televisions; it's population could not comprehend how computers might fit into the world, other than to steal jobs and monitor behavior in an Orwellian society. Now, only forty years later, PDA-phones and personal computers are essential tools for executives, couriers, mechanics, cashiers, and countless others (and, yes, they are streamlining jobs and monitoring people as well!). Worldwide, people leverage the Internet for messaging, research, entertainment, and commerce, and allow for human interaction between people in practically any city in the world. Personal computers and handheld communications devices increasingly the physical links to this dynamic, evolving global communications The Future of Video Communications system. Video communications tools are on our desks and in our bags, belts, and pockets. We simply await the right environment, the right networks, and the right carrier data service plan to make it practical to exploit these under-used resources. Today we would view our great-grandparents' predisposition to send a telegram with a condescending eye; SO will the next generation view its parents' pre-disposition with voice-only communication over wired telephones. Video communication has lived up to its promise to save time and money, but has not yet lived up to its potential to change behavior. However, the change is happening. Carriers and mobile phone makers have already made the camera phone a staple for a younger generation in the US and throughout the world. In Japan, where Mobile Video has been available to FOMA network users since 2004, millions of subscribers use video communications phones or simply mobile videophones every day. Moreover, 3G network upgrades that began in the US in 2004 will drive an explosion of personal and business mobile video use across the nation. As exciting as it is, mobile video is not the only imminent application. In another development, t