Background: VCG calls it: Polycom's Polycam. It's powerful. It's sophisticated. Attach a Polycam to your computer, then carry on conversations, face-to-face, with synchronized voice and image. The calls are transmitted by way of the public Internet - like e-mail. A call costs what e-mail costs - nothing! Whether the other side is in Bangkok, Thailand, or in Burbank, California, the call will be free. Your Polycam doesn't come free but it doesn't cost much. It's not a low-tech 'toy' camera sold for peanuts at local computer electronics stores. Those stores charge maybe $50, maybe as much as $100 (some come-on ads offer to give away - indeed, for free - low-tech 'toys' similar to those sold in those stores). Your high-quality Polycam won't cost a lot, but it will cost more than that, and the package will include equipment, software, provisioning, and installation. Speaking of software, upgrades are free; that's Polycom policy. Which means that decades may pass before your mighty little Polycam camera will need to be replaced. Instead, as good as it is now, it will keep getting better. Applications: Grandchild Cathy, age 3, lives in St. Louis, you live in Toledo? Forget the trip hassles you've suffered every 6 months. You can see and engage Cathy in virtual play every weekend without leaving your comfortable house. Just fire up your computer and switch on your Polycam. And there's Cathy. And she sees you. And, trust us, she loves and remembers the folks that engage her in virtual games when she sees them and they talk to her from her mom's TV! You are a young parent on a trip with your spouse. Maybe in Hawaii. You've left your Polycam on in baby's bedroom. Or maybe in your ailing dad's kitchen. Whenever you want to see that everything is okay, just fire up the laptop you brought along, or stop into a local Internet Café. Click on. There’s Baby. There’s Dad. Your trip will be more fun when you put your mind at ease.