Evolving technology enables immersive, real-time virtual meetings, face-to-face, without the high costs of travel
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The face-to-face aspect of a meeting is clearly important; it can be downright essential, in fact, for clear and productive collaboration sessions. Human beings pick up and process essential visual cues from their fellow homo sapiens that just can’t be readily transmitted via the popular collaboration tools of today, like IM, wikis, and e-mail. Meanwhile, videoconferencing has not, by some critics’ accounts, delivered the seamless, full-size, realistic face-to-face experience users have expected.
Fortunately, travel-weary executives and teams alike may just have cause for celebration: Telepresence technology has, by many accounts, achieved a level of quality, reliability, and affordability such that it’s truly a realistic alternative to in-person face-to-face meetings.
“Vendors have raised the bar in terms of visual quality and audio quality and the whole environment of virtual meetings to the point that the technology is …