Field of Vision. 4K Telepresence and Video Conferencing
DVE Executive Telepresence
1080p is here. You don’t know what 1080p means? Well it means a monitor with a screen resolution of 1920 X 1080 pixels scanned progressively (i for interlaced). At 1080p, you’re talking the best and most graphic High Definition Video publicly available (presently). Pretty neat. Today’s best Telepresence units run video at 1080p and 30 frames per second (fps). Pretty doggone amazing. These hi pixel count monitors are integral to the “Telepresence Experience”. Kinda’ hard to have a telepresent experience on a 15” desktop monitor, but walk into a Telepresence Studio with three 65” (or larger) 1080i plasma monitors and remember those old Memorex commercials – Is it Live, or is it Memorex? You get the idea.
But…. Just over the edge of the horizon and just inside our “Field of Vision” is something that will stretch our human visual senses to their absolute limit.
They’ve already nicknamed it “4K”. 4K stands for 4096 x 2160 pixels. FOUR TIMES the pixel count of today’s 1080p HDTV’s and monitors. FOUR TIMES the vividness of today’s best resolution. Engineers and “people in the know” are calling 4K the most unbelievable thing you or I will ever see. 4K Telepresence and 4K Video Conferencing will take Telepresence and “being telepresent” to a whole new level of lifelike conferences and meetings. How can it fail?
When will all this happen? Check it off your Christmas list for the fall of 2010, just two years away. 4K monitors are already being built and demonstrated today with consumer rollout scheduled for the summer of 2010. 4K Telepresence and lower grade 4K Video Conferencing units will be right behind the consumer rollout on these 4K television monitors. With Cisco and others publicly stating that Home Telepresence will be available in 2009, 4K Telepresence will be just in time for that 4K TV in 2010.
One thing that never changes in today’s “tele” world is that everything’s always changing. What’s new and “best” today, is old news and considered “antique” tomorrow. Funny, we just said that with HDTV a few years ago….
Bet on 4K, I can “see” it in my “Field of Vision”.
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I had never heard of the word ‘telepresence’ until I saw a Cisco TV commercial a couple of week ago. I’ve since done a little homework on the subject, but still can’t see why or how this is different than video conferencing.
Telepresence is an immersive experience on a High Definition monitor over IP, not a webcam on top of a 15″ computer monitor (that’s video conferencing).
Think “being there” while actually being “here”. Souped-up video conferencing comes to mind.
The word “telepresence” is also being used as a branding and marketing tool to separate it from video conferencing, which I believe has become stigmatized.
L2
Thanks for helping with the explanation. I found this today on Wikipedia:
Telepresence
Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance that they were present, or to have an effect, at a location other than their true location.
Telepresence requires that the senses of the user, or users, are provided with such stimuli as to give the feeling of being in that other location. Additionally, the user(s) may be given the ability to affect the remote location. In this case, the user’s position, movements, actions, voice, etc. may be sensed, transmitted and duplicated in the remote location to bring about this effect. Therefore information may be traveling in both directions between the user and the remote location.
JB
Wikipedia has the best definition of “Telepresence” that I’ve seen so far. Thanks for posting it.
L2
No problem. Interesting stuff, I added this site to my Bookmarks. I’ll check in from time to time.
By the way, I signed up but it won’t let me log in. Just letting you know.
You sure you didn’t “sign-up” for the Telepresence Newsletter, and not “Log-In” to the site JB? I don’t have it configured where users have to sign-up or log-in, everything is available “non-subscription” so no sign-up is possible (at least I didn’t think it was).
L2
I guess that’s what I did, signed up for the newsletter, not the website.
Hey JB,
We love it when people sign up – means we’re doing our job, appreciate it!
L2