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The Telepresence technology

Wish to be present in a location on a special occasion when you are actually not there? Telepresence helps you do it. An experience where you can feel fully submerged in a distant location and act on the environment to make changes. Feels like you are actually there.

• Telepresence creates unique. “in-person”, experiences between people, places, and events in their work and personal lives.
• It combines innovative video, audio, and interactive elements (both hardware and software) to create this experience over the network.

Results of telepresence

• It delivers life-size images, ultra-high-definition video, spatial audio, and a specially designed environment that creates a common meeting room across multiple remote sites.
• Users experience a live, face-to-face meeting as if all participants were in the same room together, empowering them to interact and collaborate like never before.

What features does it offer?

• It is designed to be very simple and user-friendly. It uses your campus calendar system (for example, Microsoft Outlook) to schedule meetings, and a call can be launched by merely pushing one button on an IP phone.
• The seamless interconnectivity of private and public rooms through telepresence exchanges minimizes distances across the globe and brings more people together quickly and easily.

A virtual meeting experience unlike any other, telepresence creates the illusion that remote participants are in the same room together. This effect is created by a close configuration of large screen video monitors, hidden high-definition cameras strategically placed to create the appearance of direct eye contact, consistent furniture arrangements across locations, and limited user interaction with the technology. All the participant has to do is walk into the room, and there is a life-like meeting between participants across the globe.

Types of videoconferencing systems

• The most common used is the integrated room conferencing system that is used by offices and in some schools. There is a centralized location for the codec and the associated hardware. It also comes with a main camera, displays and peripheral video sources with multiple features.
• The desktop video conferencing system is the cheapest one around and used by people working at home or keeping in touch with friends and family members.
• Personal video teleconference systems based on a webcam, personal computer system, software compression and broadband Internet connectivity have become affordable for the general public.

Because video conferencing can reduce business related travel, it is known not only for the cost savings it delivers, but as a green technology that can be a valuable tool for companies committed to reducing carbon dioxide emissions.