Telepresence Presentation : a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present in a location other than their true location.

1. EXPLORATION OF THE NEXT
GENERATION TELEPRESENCE
SYSTEM
Presented By
Vanditha R
Guided By
Soumya Kumari
Asst. Prof. CSE Dept

2. CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• TELEPRESENCE
• VIRTUAL REALITY VS TELEPRESENCE
• WHY TELEPRESENCE
• IMPLEMENTATION
• CASE STUDIES
• ADVANTAGES OF TELEPRESENCE
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCE
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3. ?
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4. "I could travel to over a dozen countries, visit
hundreds of universities, spend months meeting
with thousands of companies, but instead I get
to see the best of the best during one single day
via the geographic reach of the Global Network
and the magic of Telepresence."
Tim Draper
Managing director
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
INTRODUCTION
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5. • A telepresence can be defined as the ability
to share videos , data , audio etc with a
distant site as though the person seems to
be truly in the same room.
• Refers to a set of technologies which allow
a person to feel as if they were present in a
location other than their true location.
WHAT IS TELEPRESENCE ?..
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6. • The senses of users are provided with
stimuli as to give them a feeling of being in
that other location.
• User's position ,movements ,actions and
voice may sensed , transmitted and
duplicated in the remote location.
• The information travels in both directions
between the user and the remote location.
WHAT IS TELEPRESENCE ? (…)
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7. VIRTUAL REALITY VS TELEPRESENCE
• It is an artificial environment created
with software and presented to user in
such a way that the user accepts it as a
real environment.
• In virtual reality other entity will be a
computer and in telepresence it will be a
real environment.
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8. WHY TELEPRESENCE ?
• Low quality video.
• Reduced Audio quality with large groups and
high latency.
• Poor eye contact.
• Document sharing is not possible.
Video Conferencing suffers from various pitfalls
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9. VIEW OF TELEPRESENCE SYSTEM
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10. COMPONENTS OF TELEPRESENCE
SYSTEM
• Life Size Displays
• Camera with eye contact correction
• Wideband Sound System
• Integrated Lighting System
• Terminal for Display and Sharing of Data
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11. EYE CONTACT CORRECTION
“When participant users of traditional desktop
videoconferencing without eye contact were
asked if there was anything “awkward” about
the experience, 68% responded in their own
words commented on the lack of eye contact.“
(McNelley, 2000).
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12. EYE CONTACT CORRECTION(…)
Correction can be done using
Gaze Angle Correction
Special Hardware
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13. GAZE ANGLE CORRECTION
• Done with special image processing
algorithms.
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14. TRUE IMMERSIVE DISPLAY
Camera is placed behind the screen.
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15. True Immersive Display(…)
Screen is specially designed.
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16. LIFE SIZE DISPLAY
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17. WIDEBAND AUDIO
•Latency and Lip Synch
•Audio Quality
•Spatial Orientation
•Voice Activation
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18. DATA DISPLAY TERMINAL
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19. TELEPRESENCE MODES
• Continuous Presence
• Switched Presence.
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20. CASE STUDIES
• Fortune 100 Financial Services Company saved
$538,655 monthly when 81% of their
meetings was done via telepresence.
• Pearson plc Media Company saved $2.1M
annually on using telepresence.
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21. RELATIVE COST
Typical
usage
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22. ADVANTAGES
• Telepresence provides face to face experience
• Reduces cost of travel.
• Reduces paperwork.
• Enhanced Utility.
• Better meeting productivity.
• Better cost to performance ratio than Video
Conferencing on the long run.
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23. DISADVANTAGES
• High initial cost.
• Need for reliable network.
• High bandwidth requirement.
• Not suitable for small institutions.
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24. TIME LINE
AT&T launched VideoPhone 2500 in 1992.
Mechanical Gaze, one of the first internet
controlled telepresence device introduced by
UCB in 1995.
David Allen and Herold Williams founded
TeleSuites, the world's first commercially
successful telepresence company in 1998.
Cisco launched its commercial telepresence
video conferencing system in 2006.
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25. CONCLUSION
• Business with telepresence can have live
conferences with contacts all over the globe
as if they were literally in the same room.
• Time sensitive issues can be resolved quickly
and easily with effective collaboration.
• High return on investment for the future.
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26. REFERENCES
• Telepresence, Effective Visual Collaboration
and the Future of Global Business at the
Speed of Light,By Howard S. Lichtman
• Cisco TelePresence Overview,
www.cisco.com/
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27. THANK YOU
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28. QUESTIONS PLEASE??
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