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08-19-2006, 02:29 PM
The Human Productivity Lab has released Telepresence, Effective Visual Collaboration and the Future of Business at the Speed of Light (http://www.humanproductivitylab.com/telepresencepaper/index.php) . Telepresence is a conferencing technology the makes participants feel as if they are in the same physical space even if they are actually separated by thousands of miles. Telepresence group meeting and distance learning environments usually feature combinations of the following improvements over traditional videoconferencing: life-size remote participants, fluid motion, accurate flesh tones, studio quality acoustics and lighting, true eye-contact or the approximation of eye-contact, and immersive and/or mirrored environments that establish a consistency-of-quality among disparate locations.
The paper comes a little over a month after Cisco Systems' CEO John Chambers announced he expected telepresence to be a multi-billion dollar product line for Cisco alone in the coming years. While Cisco has yet to release their product offering, HP recently upgraded its Halo Collaboration Studio with multi-location capabilities and access to interpretation services in over 150 languages, while Polycom, the leading supplier of traditional videoconferencing equipment, launched the Polycom RPX group telepresence system in May, and MedPresence launched a telepresence operating room and conference room for surgical education, physician consultation, and surgical device development in January.
The paper which predicts the accelerated adoption of telepresence and effective visual collaboration technologies due to dramatically higher oil prices and the higher cost of physical travel seems especially prescient with the price of London Brent crude having hit an all-time high this week of $78.64. The paper, finished in mid-June when oil was trading at $71.76 per barrel addresses the effect of higher oil prices on commercial aviation and the potential effects of Peak Oil, Terrorism/Asymmetrical Warfare against Oil Production, and Expanded War in the Middle East.
The paper provides fascinating revelations into the telepresence industry:
* The industry has deployed or has "on-order" almost 300 group and distance learning telepresence systems with an average price the Lab estimates is greater than $250,000 per room. These rooms are being used for both intra-company collaboration and inter-company business with partners, vendors and customers on the same networks globally with systems deployed in at least 15 countries and growing.
* The companies deploying group telepresence solutions represent some of the world's best known firms, universities and medical facilities including: AIG, AMD, AOL, Barrow Neurological Institute, BHP Billiton, BP, CapitalOne, Cigna, Deloitte, DreamWorks, Duke University, Euronext, General Electric Commercial Finance, General Electric Healthcare, GlaxoSmithKline, Lazard, Novartis, Pearson, PepsiCo, PricewaterhouseCoopers, TGen, Vodaphone, The Royal Bank of Scotland and the University of Arizona, among others.
* Specialized telepresence solutions have been developed for diverse applications such as neurological operating rooms, pharmaceutical research and film production.
* Whereas traditional videoconferencing systems average ~15 hours per month, per end-point telepresence group systems are averaging from 120-275+ hours per month, per end-point with greater reported end-user satisfaction.
The Paper is Available for Free Download Here: http://www.HumanProductivityLab.com/telepresencepaper/
Purchase bound, color hard copies of Telepresence, Effective Visual Collaboration and the Future of Global Business at the Speed of Light Here: http://stores.ebay.com/Human-Productivity-Lab-Store
Read the HPL Press Release on Telepresence, Effective Visual Collaboration, and the Future of Global Business at the Speed of Light Here: http://www.humanproductivitylab.com/press/2006-08-09_whitepaper.php
The paper comes a little over a month after Cisco Systems' CEO John Chambers announced he expected telepresence to be a multi-billion dollar product line for Cisco alone in the coming years. While Cisco has yet to release their product offering, HP recently upgraded its Halo Collaboration Studio with multi-location capabilities and access to interpretation services in over 150 languages, while Polycom, the leading supplier of traditional videoconferencing equipment, launched the Polycom RPX group telepresence system in May, and MedPresence launched a telepresence operating room and conference room for surgical education, physician consultation, and surgical device development in January.
The paper which predicts the accelerated adoption of telepresence and effective visual collaboration technologies due to dramatically higher oil prices and the higher cost of physical travel seems especially prescient with the price of London Brent crude having hit an all-time high this week of $78.64. The paper, finished in mid-June when oil was trading at $71.76 per barrel addresses the effect of higher oil prices on commercial aviation and the potential effects of Peak Oil, Terrorism/Asymmetrical Warfare against Oil Production, and Expanded War in the Middle East.
The paper provides fascinating revelations into the telepresence industry:
* The industry has deployed or has "on-order" almost 300 group and distance learning telepresence systems with an average price the Lab estimates is greater than $250,000 per room. These rooms are being used for both intra-company collaboration and inter-company business with partners, vendors and customers on the same networks globally with systems deployed in at least 15 countries and growing.
* The companies deploying group telepresence solutions represent some of the world's best known firms, universities and medical facilities including: AIG, AMD, AOL, Barrow Neurological Institute, BHP Billiton, BP, CapitalOne, Cigna, Deloitte, DreamWorks, Duke University, Euronext, General Electric Commercial Finance, General Electric Healthcare, GlaxoSmithKline, Lazard, Novartis, Pearson, PepsiCo, PricewaterhouseCoopers, TGen, Vodaphone, The Royal Bank of Scotland and the University of Arizona, among others.
* Specialized telepresence solutions have been developed for diverse applications such as neurological operating rooms, pharmaceutical research and film production.
* Whereas traditional videoconferencing systems average ~15 hours per month, per end-point telepresence group systems are averaging from 120-275+ hours per month, per end-point with greater reported end-user satisfaction.
The Paper is Available for Free Download Here: http://www.HumanProductivityLab.com/telepresencepaper/
Purchase bound, color hard copies of Telepresence, Effective Visual Collaboration and the Future of Global Business at the Speed of Light Here: http://stores.ebay.com/Human-Productivity-Lab-Store
Read the HPL Press Release on Telepresence, Effective Visual Collaboration, and the Future of Global Business at the Speed of Light Here: http://www.humanproductivitylab.com/press/2006-08-09_whitepaper.php