Telepresence: Videoconferencing that Works

September 13, 2007 | |

Cisco Telepresence system

More on telepresence…..

John Dickinson of ComputerWorld in the UK has recently published a two part series on this topic. The two parts have been combined by the Human Productivity Lab.

He talks about the systems on offer & trials a couple of them. In case you don’t want to read the whole article, the bottom line according to John Dickinson is:

I was impressed by the quality of the images and sound, but mostly by the realism that the system brought to the meeting. I was in San Francisco looking straight into the eyes of people in New York, and it felt like they were just across the table. They were the right size to be seated across that table, their voices seemed to come directly from their mouths and they sounded completely natural, not at all artificial in the manner of so many remote sound systems.

Read the whole article