See All Your Co-Workers’ Flaws in HD With Telepresence
SAN DIEGO — One man’s face was ruddy, a woman had moles on her arms, and another man clearly wasn’t an antiperspirant user. Their images were appearing on high-definition television, which has caused anxiety for countless appearance-obsessed Hollywood stars.
But these were businesspeople, not actors, and no makeup matted their shiny faces as they sat in a London office while their images appeared on four large TV screens at a conference room at the University of San Diego. Their images were vivid and near-life-size, and video cameras allowed the people in both rooms to make eye contact and talk to each other across more than 6,000 miles.
This is a far cry from traditional video-teleconferencing technology, manufacturers declared at a confab last week. It’s something, they said, entirely new: “telepresence.”
“The core technology, networks and environment are now in place,” said David Allen, chairman and CEO of PangeAir. He was one of about 330 attendees at Telepresence World, the first conference to tout the new technology, which is being offered under various brand names by Cisco Systems, Polycom and other manufacturers as an alternative to traditional video teleconferencing.
Executives who’d rather come home to their families at night than log thousands of frequent flier miles will likely be the first users. Telepresence, one analyst said, is as close as anyone can get to feeling like you’re in the same room as someone on the opposite coast.
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Corra understands that remote and virtual offices and conferences are nothing new. In fact, since their inception on a mass level in the mid to late nineties, many businesses have embraced the virtual or remote office, along with the virtual conference. Certain technical improvements are long overdo, and this new system certainly helps to fill the bill.
Corra expects it will increase the use of the video tele-conference. With the participants able to see life size images that will help them determine body language and subtle gestures there are positive gains in lieu of an actual face to face meeting. With travel being the hassle it is, Corra expects high definition video tele-conference has arrived to save us all from stale air, long lines, crowds and assorted nonsense now associated with travel.
With remote conferences being the current and future way to travel, so to speak, it is all the more important to conduct corporate research on the other part, before you sit down. That’s why Corra offers comprehensive background checks as well as corporate credit reports, so companies like yours are prepared for sit down meeting that may result in a variety of strategic relationships.
So check them out, before you do business.
