telepresence

If you are one of those people who tries to set the laser printer to "stun" on occasion, then the concept of telepresence may be a little advanced for you. Make sure you are sitting down while you read this article.


Telepresence is the latest and greatest in video teleconferencing technology and communication. Not only does telepresence simulate the real-life meeting experience by all those involved, but it captures the body language, non-verbal communication, voice fluctuations, and eye contact of everyone involved. And the participants may be thousands of miles apart!


Telepresence is used for board meetings, social encounters, job interviews, and just about any other meeting that needs to take place (and without the expense of flying all the participants across the globe so they can physically sit across from each other).

Called "the future of teleconferencing" by some, this new method of meeting has been increasing in popularity since it was first introduced back in 1993 by David Allen and Harold Williams. Bloggers speaking about telepresence can be found at sites like nlrnews and spectrum.ieee.

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• Holographic Collaboration Powers the New DVE 3D CreateSpace™

  
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• Google+ Hangout for Videoconferencing Professionals January 2012: Videoconferencing Managed Services

  
  Telepresence Options - Main News Content Channel — Authority: 451
  We have had a lot of positive feedback for our Google+ Hangouts since we first started them a few months back. Last month, the crew from Vidyo stopped by to chat with us about the need for professional videoconferencing solutions for business, despite the availability of free consumer apps. This month we plan on ...
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• Kickstarter effort turns netbooks into robots!

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 819
  Over the weekend I was cleaning out my gadget closet and found two of my old netbooks. I was planning to repurpose them for some programming efforts, but a new Kickstarter project has changed my mind. For a $225 pledge, you can turn a netbook into a telepresence robot, which is right up my alley. The Oculus ...
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• The Telepresence and Videoconferencing Catalog Continues to Grow!

  
  Telepresence Options - Main News Content Channel — Authority: 451
  We continue to expand the Telepresence and Videoconferencing Catalog , the most comprehensive overview of visual collaboration solutions intelligently explained and organized on the Internet. This month we have added 8 new entries to the catalog, including: ClearOne Chat USB Headsets ClearOne Chat ...
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• Wings, Creative Telepresence – tools of the future

  
  Discovery Suite — Authority: 126
  In the future, the global  communications  systems must provide systems not conditioned by time or distance. One of the most useful tools in the nowadays are the telepresence rooms. With them, companies can save money and  energy  eliminating the travels, and contributing to sustainability policies, but they are ...
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• CES 2012: Transparent Samsung Smart Window

  
  Telepresence Options - Main News Content Channel — Authority: 451
  Video: Transparent Samsung Smart Window The transparent Samsung Smart Window is a fully functional LCD display that doubles as a transparent one-sided window. Users can play movies, browse the Internet, and use widgets but none of the content is visible from the other side. unfortunately it is just a ...
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• NXTAVATAR a Tele-presence robot

  
  The NXT STEP - LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Blog — Authority: 456
  The NXTAVATAR  is a Tele-presence robot which is visually remote controlled using the internet. It is easily build. You need: a LEGO® MINDSTORMS® 2.0 set, an iPhone® 4 (or other Smartphone) with Skype® installed, a Windows PC with Skype® installed, 2 Skype® accounts and 2 NXTAVATAR programs (which are open ...
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• GOLDEN AGE – SOMEWHERE

  
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  Within ‘Somewhere’ We are transported to a time where the boundaries between what is real and what is simulated are blurred. We live online and download places to relax, parks and shopping malls. We can even interact with our friends as if they were in the same room with simulated tele-presence. Everyone is ...
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• Technical Innovation Selects Glowpoint Cloud Managed Video Services

  
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• VGo telepresence robot gets Verizon LTE, we go eyes-on (video)

  
  Engadget — Authority: 850
  The idea of a telepresence robot isnt exactly new in the tech world, considering theres been a few going to school in the place of teenagers for over a year now. But the VGo bot -- a chest-high roving device that has a display and camera built-in and allows patients and others to interact with a remote operator -- ...
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• Wainhouse Researchs Dozen: 12 Predictions for 2012

  
  Telepresence Options - Main News Content Channel — Authority: 451
  January 11, 2012 via Wainhouse Research Bulletin -- We asked our team to make some predictions for the unified communications & collaboration industry in 2012, with a few rules: nothing too obvious, make it reasonably possible (its not April Fools, yet), and its ok to disagree! Note the new names and read on in ...
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• 21st century business: Will face-to-face meetings be replaced by technology?

  
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• CES: First Hands-On With Verizon’s VGo Robotic Telepresence

  
  Mobile Magazine — Authority: 577
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• WebEx Telepresence Integration Lets Everyone Participate [Watch Demo]

  
  Collaboration — Authority: 124
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• Educating New Yorkers to the Dangers of the Drone

  
  Telepresence Options - Main News Content Channel — Authority: 451
  The Museum of Modern Art in NYC is holding an exhibit about the Drone: "Less Distance From War". Outside the museum, demonstrators held an event in conjunction with the exhibit to alert museum goers and passer byes to the evils of drone warfare. A replica of a drone was set up which incorporated a small electronic ...
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