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Telepresence and Holography / Holograms - November 2008

Editor’s viewpoint on their differences, likenesses and future...

We all just recently viewed an historic CNN holographic interview on an historic Election Night. CNN stated this type of imaging has never been done before on National TV and I believe that. I haven’t seen anything like it. The live interview caught me by surprise and sure had the “wow” factor attached to it didn’t it? Here’s a link to the actual interview.

CNN Hologram Video

The question now has to be asked. Is it Telepresence?

I’m no expert on the subject but I’m going to throw my hat into the ring, go out on a limb and say yes, I believe it is. Although I know many video conferencing purists are rolling their eyes and grabbing their guns right about now with my statement.

While I do know that Telepresence still hasn’t been universally defined (Houston, we have a problem), here’s how I see it…. Broken down to its simplest form - “tele” (through electronic means) and “presence” (present). This is how I’m justifying my opinion by lumping holography and Telepresence together. Just as Telepresence is surely an offshoot of video conferencing, holographic imaging (like we viewed on CNN) surely has to be considered an offshoot of Telepresence. The interviewer was “telepresent” from Chicago and beamed into the CNN Election Headquarters. She was most assuredly - “telepresent”. There was negligible latency, the imaging was fantastic and both interviewers were rehearsed on what they would say. I’ve just recently read that CNN actually “downgraded” the experience to make it “movie” quality and not as good as it could have been. Maybe they thought us mere mortals would be shocked if they showed their complete hand. I have a feeling it was so big to them, they didn’t want it to get upstaged by the historic election. I’m willing to bet we’ll see the “true” power of this technology in the upcoming weeks and months when they can put the pedal to the medal and show it off without having it sidetracked.

What an amazing time for this technology (all differences and opinions aside). Telepresence Doctors, nurses, teachers, schools and healthcare (healthpresence) will benefit from the recent gains in this state-of-the-art industry whether holograms, Telepresence or holography. Airlines also have to see the threat to a portion of their business travel. Hell, who wants go through security and fly to Miami for a two-hour conference when you can look them in the eye via Telepresence?

Beam me up Scotty! Simply amazing…!

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Your Editor and Administrator - L II
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Orange County (PRWEB) June 2, 2007 -- Nicholas Sauer, VP of Research and Development at BrightCom, Inc. and Bob McCandless, CEO of BrightCom, Inc. will present "Telepresence Solutions for Homeland Security-To Infinity and Beyond" at this years Telepresence World conference in San Diego, June 5th in San Diego, California. The presentation will highlight BrightCom's latest deployment of integrated telepresence and web conferencing solutions at the Department of Homeland Security and Los Angeles Police Department's Joint Regional Intelligence Center (JRIC) located in Los Angeles, California.

The challenge that JRIC faced, was to determine how to connect a vast range of departments to aid in the prevention of potential threats to national security. JRIC's effort to find new ways of departmental communication was the first-of-its-kind to solve this challenge and improve federal, state and local law enforcement collaboration.

"Technology enables us to analyze a lot of information quickly and get access quickly," Michael Chertoff, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said. "But the human element is important here."

This combination of the human element of telepresence conferencing systems and real time web conferencing integrated application and data sharing is exactly how BrightCom was able to approach JRIC's challenge of departmental collaboration.

"This is truly a partnership that has come together at just the right time," Chief William J. Bratton said. "Through this partnership, we are building on the spirit of cooperation between law enforcement agencies."

BrightCom's Visual Collaboration System (VCS) unifies personnel from different law enforcement agencies, connecting conference room technology, desktop PCs and mobile laptop clients, and allowing multiple participants to experience on-line conferences at any time and from any location. The multi-agency JRIC team members can share video clip content, documents, live computer screens and a whole host of other data, in addition to experiencing live telepresence integration with BrightCom's ClearView video and audio conferencing system. Analysts and investigators can use these features to their advantage as they collect and collaborate on intelligence from agencies all over the country.

"The future of collaboration and telepresence technology is very much capable of breaking down conference room walls and is prepared to take on the challenges of every organization whether it is for the unification of our nation's law enforcement or its' enterprise business leaders" said Bob McCandless, CEO of BrightCom.

Nicholas Sauer and Bob McCandless will be presenting their case study on Homeland Security, telepresence and on-line conferencing solutions at this year's Telepresence World conference on June 5th, 2007 in San Diego, California. Telepresence World 2007 is a meeting of top leaders in telepresence, presence and unified collaboration and will showcase the leading experts in video, audio and web conferencing solutions including BrightCom, Cisco, Polycom, and others. Both of BrightCom's leading solutions, VCS and ClearView Conferencing Technologies will be on display in the exhibitors showcase.

About BrightCom, Inc.
BrightCom specializes in creating advanced collaboration and communication products and solutions for business customers. Our products break down the walls of conference room technology connecting remote corporate users, suppliers, and customers together with easy to use, simple to deploy, cost effective solutions. We empower businesses to leverage the power of telepresence and collaboration across the enterprise.

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