Several days ago, EON Reality announced the technical preview of EON Coliseum, a virtual platform intended to be a place where people can present their ideas, communicate complex concepts and collaborate using rich media objects.

In other words, EON Coliseum is platform for constructing virtual meeting rooms. The official brochure (pdf) states that the key benefits of the technology are :

• Multi-modal communication brings virtual collaboration to the next level and cut costs in the long run while increasing productivity
• Voice-Over-IP (Peer-to-Peer/Conference)
• Streaming video
• Virtual Presentation Surface supporting major formats for text and imagery
• Datalink connects to virtually any software via TCP/UDP
• Network entity management for multi-user environment
• Collaborate in real-time with unlimited ways to visualize 3D objects
• Broadcast virtual presentation and training/instructional sessions in one single, consistent environment without the need to switch between many applications
• Proprietary network management technology supports optimized and scalable multiplexed communication for large numbers of concurrent users

It should be available as a full product in Q1 2009 (very soon! )