For Those Who DOn't Know What Telepresence Is

[riodude]

Telepresence refers to a set of technologies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technologies) which allow a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance that they were present, or to have an effect, at a location other than their true location.
Telepresence requires that the senses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense) of the user, or users, are provided with such stimuli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimulus_%28physiology%29) as to give the feeling of being in that other location. Additionally, the user(s) may be given the ability to affect the remote location. In this case, the user's position, movements, actions, voice, etc. may be sensed, transmitted (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_transmission) and duplicated in the remote location to bring about this effect. Therefore information (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information) may be travelling in both directions between the user and the remote location.






http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepresence

[weblord]

thanks riodude for the additional information.

[p4wlik]

Yea, now more ppl will know what is it exacly :D

[yasser33]

thanks riodude for your clear informations :)

[Ben]

Thank you for the information, i don't really knew what is the web. Thank you a lot.

[Adam]

http://www.telepresenceforum.com/showthread.php?t=43
I seen that topic as well =D

Yes I know what it is now!

[DoubleT]

Thanks Riodude, was wondering, this topic is for people like me lol. Good info

[lucas]

Now I can understand what it really is.

So telepresence makes the person feel that they are really somewhere doing something.

Thanks for the info, Riodude.

[Johnny]

Nicely put together. You have coined all the major information about it into this short post.
I helped me sharpen my vision about telepresence.

BTW, Wikipedia links were a nice touch ;)

[snorlaxle]

Nice info. very complete, if they are combine on a single post, i think it would be better..

[cyclist]

What I don't get is that companies are bringing out lower and lower end products and slapping the "telepresence" label on it doing a complete disservice to the term.

Slapping together a codec and a plasma tv isn't it. That's the dreaded term "video conferencing".

IMO telepresence is to mimic the atmosphere at each location. People need to be life size, participants need eye contact, technology should be hidden and rooms should be a reasonable mirror of each other. When those conditions are met, you can simply have a meeting.

People get camera shy. When people see a microphone 10 feet away they tend to yell. When people are too small on screen they become secondary to the conversation.

[Lumpy]

There was a couple of things that the industry professionals really struggled with at Telepresence Day at Infocomm 08....

One was they couldn't agree on what the definition of "telepresence" was to be, and the other was what qualifies as "telepresence".

I got a couple things out of the discussion.

1). They're going to use the term to distance it from video conferencing. A cut above if you will....

2). They can "market" telepresence as a new technology to the masses. ie See Cisco

3). There was at least one large vendor that said if it's HD conferencing over ip, then they sell it as "telepresence".

Right, wrong? Dunno.... They're doing it.

You'll get a kick out what they thought the Skype product is....

I'll write more this afternoon - got to run for now.

Lumpy

[aa33030]

Yes I just did a search for telepresence and your definition was taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepresence



Telepresence

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepresence#column-one), search (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepresence#searchInput)
See also: Presence (telepresence) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presence_%28telepresence%29) Telepresence refers to a set of technologies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technologies) which allow a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance that they were present, or to have an effect, at a location other than their true location.
Telepresence requires that the senses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense) of the user, or users, are provided with such stimuli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimulus_%28physiology%29) as to give the feeling of being in that other location. Additionally, the user(s) may be given the ability to affect the remote location. In this case, the user's position, movements, actions, voice, etc. may be sensed, transmitted (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_transmission) and duplicated in the remote location to bring about this effect. Therefore information (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information) may be travelling in both directions between the user and the remote location.

[joharin]

What's the different between "telepresence" and "virtual equipment"? Are they the same thing? If they are not, then it what way does "telepresence" affect our mind to think it wants?

[MegaEduX]

Thanks for your clear information mate, I really didn't know what it was :P

[telepresence MVC]

Brief and hitting the core of it!

Nicely put together. You have coined all the major information about it into this short post.
I helped me sharpen my vision about telepresence.

BTW, Wikipedia links were a nice touch ;)

That's clear. those who need more information will surely approach wikipedia for more information - or contact a leading service in that field. :D The information put on the German wikipedia edition is suboptimal and extendable. :rolleyes:

Sandra

[Lumpy]

Brief and hitting the core of it!



That's clear. those who need more information will surely approach wikipedia for more information - or contact a leading service in that field. :D The information put on the German wikipedia edition is suboptimal and extendable. :rolleyes:

Sandra
Sandra, are you seeing decent "adoption" of Telepresence there in Germany?

Lumpy

[joel]

What I don't get is that companies are bringing out lower and lower end products and slapping the "telepresence" label on it doing a complete disservice to the term.

Slapping together a codec and a plasma tv isn't it. That's the dreaded term "video conferencing".

IMO telepresence is to mimic the atmosphere at each location. People need to be life size, participants need eye contact, technology should be hidden and rooms should be a reasonable mirror of each other. When those conditions are met, you can simply have a meeting.

People get camera shy. When people see a microphone 10 feet away they tend to yell. When people are too small on screen they become secondary to the conversation.
I agree- to me what Cisco and Tandberg are doing is just "video Conferencing" with HD camera capturing the image. And you r sitting at a conference table. I have seen the Cisco Demonstration of John Chambers hosting a conference in India and have 2 lifelike holograms which r filmed in real time in CA and tranmitted to India as holograms which interact with Mr. Chambers---- Now that is Telepresence!

[Lumpy]

I agree- to me what Cisco and Tandberg are doing is just "video Conferencing" with HD camera capturing the image. And you r sitting at a conference table. I have seen the Cisco Demonstration of John Chambers hosting a conference in India and have 2 lifelike holograms which r filmed in real time in CA and tranmitted to India as holograms which interact with Mr. Chambers---- Now that is Telepresence!I still believe that whoever "markets" the word to Joe Q. Public will be able to actually define what Telepresence is, no matter what we think, right or wrong. It alsmost doesn't matter at the point people start adopting it mainstream.

Some say Telepresence is "HD Video Conferencing over IP", some say "Pepper's Ghost Technology", some say "3D Virtual", hell - I even recently saw 3D Animation on a website that they were calling Telepresence!

I thought to myself, you've got to be kidding me!

L2