Telepresence
In
this article we will talk about telepresence, and will be summed up in four parts,
Introduction, Definition, advantages and Statistics.
Telepresence
refers to a group of techniques that
allow a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance that they were present. Telepresence requires that senses is
providing to the user, or users, with incentives such as giving the sense of being in that other location. Added to that, the user
or users can be given the ability to affect the remote location.
Definitions
vary wildly. Telepresence is meeting
between two or more points where all end points are located in immersive rooms
.In another definition telepresence is simply HD videoconferencing where all
participants are life sized. But once you move past the confusion it is quite
clear that there is still a demand for telepresence.
Effective
use of time is key in modern organizations, and with technology telepresence is
a growing rapidly practice. There are many advantages why companies are
installing telepresence.
First,
Decreased Costs Include many of the advantages influential in increasing
profits in any company, for example, Reduce travel budgets , Allocate resources more strategically (budget
andpersonnel) and Leverage existing excess bandwidth and/or
audio/video components.
Second,
Increase knowledge Includes many of the advantages Which allows the company to share
sources and Improve education for example, supports access to international resources for continuing medical
education, and able to electronic field trips, education and corporate
training, and enhance
the development of
curricula and allows physicians to store test results,
along with images of the test.
US
International Trade center says" that busy professionals in American
business today spend more than 37% of their time in meetings. Executives attend
over 60 meetings every month. Now add the time wasted in airports including
additional time for extensive security measures, post-airport transit, and
hotel time. Time spent getting to and from a 2-hour meeting is often greater
than the time spent in the meeting itself". For that Statistics many
companies prefer telepresence than Traditional conferences.
In conclusion, in this article we talked about telepresence,
and summed up in four parts, Introduction, Definition, advantages and
Statistics. Telepresence is very significant
for any company
at the present time. I hope to gain this article
to your satisfaction.
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