The Art of True Interactive Telepresence.

Telepresence is much more than technique only. In many whitepapers it is described as an art: the art of giving people the feeling they are sitting next to each other in the same room, even if they are physically a 1,000 miles apart from each other.

Anno 2011, organizations are faced with sometimes difficult choices in respect to how to leverage their global talent in a timely manner without undue risk. Travelling all over the world is a way to handle this, but organizations are becoming more reluctant to approve this for obvious reasons. Therefore, in the virtual world we are living in now, emerging technologies are increasingly used for putting the right people together regardless of their geographic whereabouts.

Videoconferencing has been the solution during the last decade, however, because of its technical limitations and drawbacks, it never really gained a considerable market share within true global players and board rooms. Videoconferencing systems are relatively high-priced and don’t fulfill their promises due to being no more than a poor video based telephone system. Working together and really getting things done within teams requires more than a distant small screen and irritating audio and video delays which cannot deliver the same feeling as discussing face-to-face.

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