PangeAir, the Digital Airline Company, Announces Launch of Their Dayton Telepresence Gateway

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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Dayton, Ohio (PRWEB) July 24, 2008 -- On Friday, July 18, PangeAir Corporation celebrated the much anticipated grand opening of their first franchise at the Dayton Convention Center. Local government officials, television media and the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce gathered to experience a newly available public-access video communications and media solution, known as Dayton's PangeAir Gateway.

The PangeAir Telepresence Gateway is available to rent for the purpose of conducting or attending meetings, facilitating events and providing education and training. Participants can interact and share data with one another through video on the two high-definition 65-inch LCD monitors, thus eliminating the time and money required for travel. Up to 25 people can join a meeting from inside the state-of-the-art suite in the Dayton Convention Center, and communicate as though they are face-to-face.

According to Bob Briggs, CEO of Indianapolis-based PangeAir, "Businesses and organizations can bring together distant employees, executives and clients without the challenges of travel in an environment that can best be described as interactive high-definition TV. Meetings at PangeAir Gateways improve productivity, quality of life and the bottom line. "

PangeAir is a franchisor that has identified potential audiences who could benefit from public access telepresence locations, from corporations to universities, healthcare to law. Foreseeing an opportunity to create face-to-face interaction without the need for travel, they understood that telepresence technology had endless applications. "Dayton is the birthplace of aviation and this is the beginning of a brand new business travel venue, the launch of a digital airline gateway," said David Allen, chairman of PangeAir. For more information regarding new cities coming online this year and into the future, please visit www.pangeair.com.

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