Technology Evangelist Coverage of Telepresence World Starts June 4th
The Technology Evangelist team is sending a crew out to San Diego, CA this
coming week to cover
Telepresence
World. This is the place to be for all things telepresence. For those of you
not familiar with the concept of telepresence, it's a relatively new form of
remote conferencing using HDTVs, incredible amounts of bandwidth, and even
custom built matching rooms in multiple locations to deliver a meeting
experience that's as close to face to face as possible.
John Battelle
recently had a chance to experience HP's telepresence offering called the HALO
at an HP facility in San Jose and described his experience like this:
HP's HALO: Now This Is
Telepresence
By the time he had finished giving me the nickel tour,
I had quite forgotten we were not in the same
room. Our subsequent conversation was as nuanced and, well, as human as
most meetings I've had face to face. The sound was superb, there was absolutely
no latency, and the system adjusts for eye contact - people know when you are
looking at them, allowing for the full gestural language of conversation to
flourish.
"I had quite forgotten we were not in the same room,"
sums up what makes telepresence different from most video conferencing systems.
The conference runs from June 4-6th at San Diego State University. For more
information, check out www.TelepresenceWorld.com. We'd love to hear from you
about what you'd like to see covered at the show. Let us know what you think in
the comments. The agenda can be found
here.
