Comments on: Field of Vision

By: admin

admin — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:00:54 +0000

Hey JB,

We love it when people sign up – means we’re doing our job, appreciate it!

By: Johnny B.

Johnny B. — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:17:13 +0000

I guess that’s what I did, signed up for the newsletter, not the website.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:36:47 +0000

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).

By: Johnny B.

Johnny B. — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:32:52 +0000

By the way, I signed up but it won’t let me log in. Just letting you know.

By: Johnny B.

Johnny B. — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:28:45 +0000

No problem. Interesting stuff, I added this site to my Bookmarks. I’ll check in from time to time.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:32:54 +0000

Wikipedia has the best definition of “Telepresence” that I’ve seen so far. Thanks for posting it.

By: Johnny B.

Johnny B. — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:24:05 +0000

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.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:44:28 +0000

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.

By: Johnny B.

Johnny B. — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:53:38 +0000

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.