360 Degree Computer Cameras

It's where the good ideas come from: you find yourself in a situation that could be better, and then you realize what could be better.
It all started yesterday, the day after the groundhog was suppose to see his shadow and the day after Vermont was hit with a massive snow storm. The roads were horrible, it took twice as long to get anywhere in your car, and one staff member couldn't even get his car out of his driveway. Understandable he couldn't be at the 9:00AM meeting physically, but with the grace of technology he could.
We had skyped in staff members before to meetings, and there was always the same issue: where do you point the camera? We would start the meeting with the camera pointed at the director, and then move it when the next person would speak, and then back, oh wait who's commenting, turn the camera right, left, ooops, bad view, till finally...
"Jacqueline, just leave the camera where it is. I can hear."
Hear, yes, but how is it that we can't have skyped in staff members feel like they are 100% at the meetings. This is the future, isn't it? We can figure this out!
And then I realized, that's what we needed. A camera that would have a 360 degree vision, and then could recreate a view that a human would normally have if he was sitting in the room.
Does this camera exist? I don't know. But we should popularize this camera if it does exist. Let's make meetings better, friends, by making sure that we're all there, even if it's only virtually.
360 degree cameras. What a good idea.