Telepresence refers to technologies that allow a person to feel as if they were present in a location other than their true location through sensory stimuli. It can be used for applications like teleconferencing, connecting remote communities, hazardous work like pipeline inspection, remote surgery, education, and entertainment. Hardware implementations aim to match the user's field of vision and sense of sound with the remote location, while also allowing for remote manipulation. Telepresence provides benefits over virtual reality by interacting with real rather than computer-generated environments.