Telepresence

Telepresence is a significant step in evolution of video conferencing. It’s a whole ecosystem of technologies that deliver rich and life like experiences to those who wish to communicate remotely. Telepresence virtually allows us to be at any point of location as long as there’s a similar set of technologies that can decode the communication native to telepresence gear.

The main objective of telepresence is to give the feeling as if we were present at the location other than its true location. This technology is perfect for businessmen, doctors, scientists, hazardous locations or any other urgent matters where time is of essence and traveling across the globe makes no sense or too costly.

However for true effect to take place both locations must support telepresence protocols and have sufficient bandwidth.

There are many vendor that currently provide telepresence equipment and services. The current leaders in telepresence market are Cisco, Polycom, HP’s Halo and Teliris.