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Telepresence
* Telepresence ~ ` ` Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance of being present, or to have an effect, via Telerobotics, at a place other than their true location. ♥ Telepresence requires that the users' senses be provided with such stimuli as to give the feeling of being in that other location. ♥ Additionally, users 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. ♥ A popular application is found in Telepresence Videoconferencing, the highest possible level of Videotelephony. Telepresence via video deploys greater technical sophistication and improved fidelity of both sight and sound than in traditional Videoconferencing. ♥ Technical advancements in mobile collaboration have also extended the capabilities of videoconferencing beyond the boardroom for use with hand-held mobile devices, enabling collaboration independent of location. Bᴇsᴛ ᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ Facebook ɪs: Iᴛ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴜʟᴛɪᴍᴀᴛᴇʟʏ ᴋɪʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇɴᴛɪʀᴇ ʜɪɢʜ sᴄʜᴏᴏʟ ʀᴇᴜɴɪᴏɴ ɪɴᴅᴜsᴛʀʏ · |
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* History ~ ` ` The term, "Telepresence", was coined in a 1980 article by, Marvin Minsky, who outlined his vision for an adapted version of the older concept of Teleoperation that focused on giving the remote participation a feeling of actually being present. ♥ A science fiction entitled, "Waldo", by Robert A. Heinlein, proposed a primitive Telepresence Master-slave manipulator system in 1942. In his pioneering paper, Minsky wrote: ` "My first vision of a remote-controlled economy came from Robert A. Heinlein's prophetic 1948 novel, "Waldo". ♥ The year of the publication of, "Waldo", in Minsky's comment in the paper was incorrect. ♥ The, "Brother Assassin", written by Fred Saberhagen in 1969, introduced the complete concept for a Telepresence Master-slave humanoid system. In the novel, the concept is described as follows: ` "And a moment later it seemed to all his senses that he had been transported from the Master down into the body of the slave-unit standing beneath it on the floor. As the control of its movements passed over to him, the slave started gradually to lean to one side, and he moved its foot to maintain balance as naturally as he moved his own. Tilting back his head, he could look up through the slave's eyes to see the Master-unit, with himself inside, maintaining the same attitude on its complex suspension". ♥ The first commercially successful Telepresence company, Teleport (which was later renamed, TeleSuite), was founded in 1993 by David Allen and Harold Williams. Before TeleSuite, they ran a resort business from which the original concept emerged, because they often found businesspeople would have to cut their stays short to participate in important meetings. Their idea was to develop a technology that would allow businesspeople to attend their meetings without leaving the resorts so that they could lengthen their hotel stays. ♥ Hilton Hotels had originally licensed to install them in their hotels throughout the United States and other countries, but use was low. The idea lost momentum, with Hilton eventually backing out. TeleSuite later began to focus less on the hospitality industry and more on business-oriented Telepresence systems. Shareholders eventually held enough stock to replace the company's original leadership, which ultimately led to its collapse. David Allen purchased all of the assets of TeleSuite and appointed Scott Allen as president of the new company called, Destiny Conferencing. ♥ Destiny Conferencing licensed its patent portfolio to HP which became the first large company to join the telepresence industry, soon followed by others such as, Cisco and Polycom. After forming a distribution agreement with Pleasanton-based Polycom. Destiny Conferencing sold on 05 January 2007 to Polycom.for $60 million. ♥ An important research project in Telepresence began in 1990. Headquartered at the University of Toronto, the Ontario Telepresence Project "was a three year, $4.8 million pre-competitive research project whose mandate was to design and field trial advanced media space systems in a variety of workplaces in order to gain insights into key sociological and engineering issues. The OTP, which ended December, 1994, was part of the International Telepresence Project which linked Ontario researchers to counterparts in four European Nations. The Project’s major sponsor was the Province of Ontario through two of its Centres of Excellence — the Information Technology Research Centre (ITRC) and the Telecommunications Research Institute of Ontario (TRI  ". ♥ The Project was an interdisciplinary effort involving social sciences and engineering. Bᴇsᴛ ᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ Facebook ɪs: Iᴛ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴜʟᴛɪᴍᴀᴛᴇʟʏ ᴋɪʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇɴᴛɪʀᴇ ʜɪɢʜ sᴄʜᴏᴏʟ ʀᴇᴜɴɪᴏɴ ɪɴᴅᴜsᴛʀʏ · | ||
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* Benefits ~ ` ` An industry expert described some benefits of Telepresence: ` "There were four drivers for our decision to do more business over video and Telepresence. We wanted to reduce our travel spend, reduce our carbon footprint and environmental impact, improve our employees' work/life balance, and improve employee productivity". ♥ Rather than traveling great distances in order to have a face-face meeting, it is now commonplace to instead use a Telepresence system, which uses a multiple codec video system (which is what the word "Telepresence" most currently represents). Each Member/party of the meeting uses a Telepresence room to "dial in" and can see/talk to every other Member on a screen/s as if they were in the same room. This brings enormous time and cost benefits. It is also superior to phone conferencing (except in cost), as the visual aspect greatly enhances communications, allowing for perceptions of facial expressions and other body language. ♥ Mobile collaboration systems combine the use of video, audio and on-screen drawing capabilities using newest generation hand-held mobile devices to enable multi-party conferencing in real-time, independent of location. ♥ Benefits include cost-efficiencies resulting from accelerated problem resolution, reductions in downtimes and travel, improvements in customer service and increased productivity. Bᴇsᴛ ᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ Facebook ɪs: Iᴛ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴜʟᴛɪᴍᴀᴛᴇʟʏ ᴋɪʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇɴᴛɪʀᴇ ʜɪɢʜ sᴄʜᴏᴏʟ ʀᴇᴜɴɪᴏɴ ɪɴᴅᴜsᴛʀʏ · | ||
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* Implementation ~ ` ` Telepresence has been described as the human experience of being fully present at a live real-world location remote from one's own physical location. ♥ Someone experiencing video Telepresence would therefore be able to behave, and receive stimuli, as though part of a meeting at the remote site. ♥ The aforementioned would result in interactive participation of Group activities that would bring benefits to a wide range of users. ♥ Implementation of human sensory elements to provide a Telepresence experience, technologies are required that implement the human sensory elements of manipulation, sound and vision. Bᴇsᴛ ᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ Facebook ɪs: Iᴛ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴜʟᴛɪᴍᴀᴛᴇʟʏ ᴋɪʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇɴᴛɪʀᴇ ʜɪɢʜ sᴄʜᴏᴏʟ ʀᴇᴜɴɪᴏɴ ɪɴᴅᴜsᴛʀʏ · | ||
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* Manipulation ~ ` ` The ability to manipulate a remote object or environment is an important aspect for some Telepresence users, and can be implemented in large number of ways depending on the needs of the user. ♥ Typically, the movements of the user's hands (position in space and posture of the fingers) are sensed by wired gloves, inertial sensors, or absolute spatial position sensors. A robot in the remote location then copies those movements as closely as possible; this ability is also known as, Teleoperation. ♥ The more closely the robot re-creates the form factor of the human hand, the greater the sense of Telepresence. ♥ Complexity of robotic effectors varies greatly, from simple one axis grippers, to fully anthropomorphic robot hands. ♥ Haptic Teleoperation refers to a system that provides some sort of tactile force feedback to the user, so the user feels some approximation of the weight, firmness, size and/or texture of the remote objects manipulated by the robot. Bᴇsᴛ ᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ Facebook ɪs: Iᴛ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴜʟᴛɪᴍᴀᴛᴇʟʏ ᴋɪʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇɴᴛɪʀᴇ ʜɪɢʜ sᴄʜᴏᴏʟ ʀᴇᴜɴɪᴏɴ ɪɴᴅᴜsᴛʀʏ · | ||
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* Sound ~ ` ` Sound is generally the easiest sensation to implement with high fidelity, based on the foundational telephone technology dating back more than 130 years. ♥ Very high-fidelity sound equipment has also been available for a considerable period of time, with stereophonic sound being more convincing than monaural sound. Bᴇsᴛ ᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ Facebook ɪs: Iᴛ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴜʟᴛɪᴍᴀᴛᴇʟʏ ᴋɪʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇɴᴛɪʀᴇ ʜɪɢʜ sᴄʜᴏᴏʟ ʀᴇᴜɴɪᴏɴ ɪɴᴅᴜsᴛʀʏ · | ||
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* Vision ~ ` ` A minimum system usually includes visual feedback. ♥ Ideally, the entire field of view of the user is filled with a view of the remote location, and the viewpoint corresponds to the movement and orientation of the user's head. In this way, it differs from television or cinema, where the viewpoint is out of the control of the viewer. ♥ In order to achieve this, the user may be provided with either a very large (or wraparound) screen, or small displays mounted directly in front of the eyes. ♥ The latter provides a particularly convincing 3D sensation. ♥ The movements of the user's head must be sensed, and the camera must mimic those movements accurately and in real time - this is important to prevent unintended motion sickness. ♥ Another source of future improvement to Telepresence displays, compared by some to holograms, is a projected display technology featuring life-sized imagery. Bᴇsᴛ ᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ Facebook ɪs: Iᴛ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴜʟᴛɪᴍᴀᴛᴇʟʏ ᴋɪʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇɴᴛɪʀᴇ ʜɪɢʜ sᴄʜᴏᴏʟ ʀᴇᴜɴɪᴏɴ ɪɴᴅᴜsᴛʀʏ · | ||
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* Degree Of Implementation ~ ` ` Telepresence's effectiveness varies by degree of fidelity. ♥ Research has noted that Telepresence solutions differ in degree of implementation, from "immersive" through "adaptive" to "lite" solutions. ♥ At the top are immersive solutions, where the environments at both ends are highly controlled (and often the same) with respect to lighting, acoustics, decor and furniture, thereby giving all the participants the impression they are together at the same table in the same room, thus engendering the "immersive" label. ♥ Adaptive Telepresence solutions may use the same technology, but the environments at both ends are not highly controlled and hence often differ. Adaptive solutions differ from Telepresence lite solutions not in terms of control of environments, but in terms of integration of technology. ♥ Adaptive solutions use a managed service, whereas Telepresence lite solutions use components that someone must integrate. Bᴇsᴛ ᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ Facebook ɪs: Iᴛ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴜʟᴛɪᴍᴀᴛᴇʟʏ ᴋɪʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇɴᴛɪʀᴇ ʜɪɢʜ sᴄʜᴏᴏʟ ʀᴇᴜɴɪᴏɴ ɪɴᴅᴜsᴛʀʏ · | ||
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