A Wider Net

Meeting organizers and event planners need to be aware of the promise of TelePresense. Simply put, TelePresence allows you to conduct face to face meetings without being in the same room, and without feeling like you’re talking on a clunky video phone. Telepresence creates an illusion that people from remote locations are in the room with you. It can also create the illusion that a remote presenter is acually on stage at an event. It may sound a little “holodek” fantastic and, to some extent, it is, but this is very real, and based on well-proven technology. What makes TelePresence so much better than videoconferencing is really how it’s integrated into the meeting. Companies have come up with increasingly clever ways to integrate the technology into a familiar environment like a conference room or a ballroom- so you think about interacting and communicating and not about the technology.

Cisco Systems has an extensive section on their website about their telepresence solutions.

Other links:

Human Productivity Lab - has a great telepresnece blog, a massive downloadable paper on the subject, and lots of telepresence content.

Teleportec - solutions for creating the illusion of a remote speaker actually being on stage.

Digital Video Enterprises - provider of a variety of telepresence solutions, including 3D telepresence kiosks.

Telepresence World - annual conference in San Diego