WAINHOUSE RESEARCH WHITE PAPER

The Benefits of a Telepresence Platform

 

November 2008. Understanding Telepresence Wainhouse Research (WR) defines telepresence as follows: “Telepresence is an experience based on videoconferencing in which remote session participants appear to be located in the same room and sitting on the other side of the conference room table. WR refers to the feeling that remote participants are in the same room as the “telepresence effect,” and systems able to provide this experience are said to be telepresence-ready or telepresence-capable. Telepresence capable systems must meet the following requirements:

• The system must provide life-size images of the face and upper body of the remote participants
• The system must maintain a position and proximity perspective that makes the remote participants appear to be sitting on the other side of a conference room table
• The system (and the implementation of the system) must not materially interfere with the telepresence effect
  
  

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