Telepresence Report: Seeing is Believing

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
"Ride on the Next Plane of Existence" TM

Northborough, MA (PRWEB) August 29, 2007 -- Brockmann & Company, the customer insight research and consulting firm, today released findings from its latest independent self-funded report "Telepresence: Seeing is Believing." Telepresence is a particularly high bandwidth and systems-intensive implementation of high definition room-based video conferencing products and services.

According to Peter Brockmann, president of Brockmann & Company, "Telepresence users are 'eco-friendly'. They are willing to pay 55% more to avoid driving 40 miles than the desktop video conferencing users discussed in our last report, 'The Desktop Video Conferencing Experience'. For Telepresence users system reliability, ease of operation and manageability are the three most important decision criteria. Having done business with the Telepresence vendor in the past was a surprisingly low ranking."

Brockmann added, "Travel is the preferred alternative to telepresence for telepresence users, while for desktop video conferencing users the alternative was audio conference calls."

Vendors mentioned in this report include Cisco, Digital Video Enterprises, Hewlett-Packard, LifeSize, Nortel, Polycom, Radvision, Tandberg and Telanetix.

The report is based on the online responses of 360 business users of conferencing services from around the world.

Brockmann & Company is a consulting & advisory firm serving high tech equipment, application vendors and service providers in the Telepresence, Unified Communications and Email Integrity segments. Clients accelerate growth through customer research & thought leadership. Learn more at http://www.brockmann.com

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