Organizations are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars per room for highly immersive telepresence conferencing environments.
What are the keys to creating highly immersive telepresence environments? What is the ROI for end-users? What is the future of highly immersive conferencing?
This new Research Brief by Human Productivity Lab President Howard Lichtman examines what makes highly immersive telepresence environments “highly immersive” and gives a sneak peak at the first new highly immersive telepresence environment to come to market in years: SurroundPresence.  The new environment features a new patent pending optics and image processing system called Equal-i that brings remote participants “up close and personal”.

Download the Brief Here

Telepresence Options Magazine – Spring 2011 Edition: Your Guide to Visual Collaboration

Including:

• What is Telepresence?
• The ROI of Telepresence in a World of Economic and Geopolitical Uncertainty
• Robotic Telepresence: A Primer and Tale of the Tape
• Understanding the Telepresence Marketplace
• Custom Telepresence Environments – A Design Guide

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The Indispensable Sourcebook and Cookbook for Telepresence and Visual Collaboration

Covering such topics as:

• Telepresence and Visual Collaboration 2011 Trends
• Profiles of 22 Leading Telepresence Companies
• Detailed “Snapshots” on 37 Different Visual Collaborations Offerings
• 45 Smaller Entries from the Telepresence and Videoconferencing Catalog

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The on-going eruptions of the Icelandic volcano and the continued closure of European air travel has bolded, underlined, and highlighted the need for smart organizations to have a disaster recovery plan for when the planes stop flying. The complete proceedings of The Inter-Company Telepresence and Videoconferencing Conference are now available on DVD along with the complete coursework and a hard copy of the Inter-Company Telepresence and Videoconferencing Handbook for $495.

The Inter-Company Telepresence and Videoconferencing Conference was held on April 22nd, 2010 in Reston, Virginia.  The conference brought together experts on inter-company telepresence and videoconferencing who shared the best practices around using telepresence and effective visual collaboration to connect with partners, vendors, investors, and customers. These best practices are now available on a DVD of the complete conference proceeding and all the course materials.

Topics and Presenters Include:
Overview of the Challenges and Rewards of Inter-Company Visual Collaboration &
Overcoming Operational Hurdles – Howard S. Lichtman, Human Productivity Lab
Inter-Company Information Security – Brent Houlahan, CSO – Unisys
Technical Challenges & Solutions – Aaron Roe, Deloitte
Cultural Barriers and Driving Adoption – Peter Brockmann – Brockmann & Company

“The Inter-Company Telepresence and Video Conferencing Handbook” educates CIOs, executives, managers, telepresence and video conferencing professionals about the opportunities, challenges and solutions for inter-company telepresence and video conferencing with partners, vendors, and customers.  The Handbook is a guide to reducing costs, improving individual and organizational productivity, improving time-to-market advantage, and leveraging your investment in telepresence and videoconferencing as part of your disaster recovery program in the face of war, terrorism, false flag terrorism, economic, or public health emergencies. http://www.TelepresenceOptions.com/handbook

The Telepresence and Video Conferencing Exchange Provider Review is a comprehensive review of a new class of telepresence and videoconferencing service providers: Telepresence and Video Conferencing Exchange Providers.  Exchange Providers connect enterprise and carrier networks together, match disparate QoS tags, handle IP address conflicts, and enforce security policies to connect together partner, vendor, and customer companies on different networks for secure, high-quality telepresence and video conferencing sessions.
http://www.TelepresenceOptions.com/exchangereview