The increase numbers of user preferring to attend virtual meeting nowadays
is reasonably high. According to MPI Hybrid meeting Survey, three mains reasons
behind the preferences regarding typical
meeting and event organising lay on travel budget, cannot
be out of the office and cost of event. Several choices
of virtual tools are in trend such as webcasting, webinar, web conference,
video Conference and most interesting and complex one here is telepresence.
Telepresence is perceived as useful tool not only for the business
industry but environmentally friendly (decreasing carbon footprint and air pollution).
Moreover, it creates human experience of being fully present, enabling all
parties to connect to one another on demand, enhancing more channels of
communication as well as facial expressions and other body language.
Digital Video Enterprise (DVE) is global company which presently provide
telepresence targeting wide range of users as followed:
Ø University Education
Ø Healthcare
Ø Judicial and legal
Ø Government
Ø Corporate training
Ø Manufacturing and Industry
Ø Business Communication
Ø Public access
Ø Events and Conferences
Ø The total telepresence corporation
Ø File and Television Studios
Innovative and potential products offered are such as Immersion
room/podium, Transparent Augmented Reality Telepresence, 3D Transparent Display, Telepresence Array Room, and
Eye Contact Silhouette.
This transition is extraordinary. New experience is ready to be created
with this high technology that will connect the world together as one. No more
wasting time on the plane and same style of meeting, global reach, less lead
time to organize the event, higher flexibility on time management, and records
provided. Using high technology for your meeting/event is claimed to also
increase your professional, reputation and prestige in the eye of the world. On
one hand, undeniably it seems to be more profitable than the lost for all
parties. It is yet thinkable as well that with this high technology, the cost
of service is still quiet high. For example, DVE: $150,000
/ Rental Rooms: $299-$899/hour and up. Other related companies are such as Cisco
Telepresence: $300,000, HP Halo: $349,000, and Teleportec: $30,000 per installation.
According
to the prices and target markets mentioned above, it demonstrates the main
users to be in top level of management and international type of company where
the price is not their sensitivity. Price reduction in order to reach lower
level of management as well as increase number of users could
be possible eventually. The question here is that what percentage of usage
that actually use this complex tool and guarantee that they increase their
profits and revenues after all. Apart from that sort of downside, it is
agreeable that soon enough in the meeting and event industry, this great
assistance will gradually take over human roles, no matter how important face
to face interaction is.
Marion and Rosie
Sources: cisco.com/telepresence
dvetelepresence.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepresence
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/telepresence-makes-its-presence-felt/?cs=32843
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