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VIRTUALISATION Cisco's TelePresence: not yet virtual reality
VIRTUALISATION Cisco's TelePresence: not yet virtual reality | Cisco's TelePresence: not yet virtual reality |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 24 October 2006 | |
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From the images I've seen on the Cisco website you sit in a conference room in front of a battery of these high definition screens displaying life size images of the tele-participants in the video conference. The system, in France Telecom's research lab in Beijing last November, was a quantum lead beyond this. We were ushered into a room for a demonstration of an unspecified technology which, we were told would be impressive. And it certainly was. There sat side by side at desk behind floor to ceiling angled glass were what seemed at first glance to be two women. That was an illusion. The women were half way across the world in another FT research lab, but it was very easy to believe that they were there in the flesh. |
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