4. Why Telepresence? Saves time – increases productivity Decrease expenditure Enhanced Conference Experience Happier customers Happy and healthy workers Greening of your company
5. Why Telepresence? Saves time – increases productivity Decrease expenditure Enhanced Conference Experience Happier customers Happy and healthy workers Greening of your company Saves time - With online video conference solutions, the only travel required is the short walk from the office to the videoconference room, assuming they don't attend from their own computer. Unproductive travel time is eliminated. Decrease expenditures - Meeting face-to-face requires numerous expenses, including plane tickets, paying for a place to stay, and food costs. Enhanced Conference Experience - Being able to see and include all participants, assess their level of comfort and interaction, share desktops surpasses audio or web based conferencing. Happier customers - It is difficult to keep in contact with customers if a physical visit is always needed. Now customer can easily be reached in a very personal manner. Happy and healthy workers - With online video conference solutions, meetings can be held without any health or safety risks. Greening of your company - Using Telepresence, instead of flying in planes, reduces the company's carbon footprint.
8. Being “There” … Transmitting via a cellular 3Gcard and netbook from the “field” CoroWare’s Corobot mobile robot
9. VidyoDesktop™ - User Interface Layout - vary the appearance of the Vidyo desktop per user. The icon graphically indicates the layout – in this case the current speaker appears in a larger panel than all the other attendees, other formats include where each person occupies the same size panel. Full Screen – toggle on/off Share – this allows any user to share a document running on her/his workstation. Toggle – between a second workstation monitor. Preview – this allows a participant to see herself/himself. Volume – volume of the audio. Mic - workstation controls including mute. Privacy – no other attendee may see you. Configuration – self explanatory. Disconnect – self explanatory. A B C D E F G H I J