Study: Audio, Web, Video Conferencing Looms Large in Finance, Banking, Legal, Insurance and Real Estate Markets

Telepresence and Holography / Holograms - November 2008

Editor’s viewpoint on their differences, likenesses and future...

We all just recently viewed an historic CNN holographic interview on an historic Election Night. CNN stated this type of imaging has never been done before on National TV and I believe that. I haven’t seen anything like it. The live interview caught me by surprise and sure had the “wow” factor attached to it didn’t it? Here’s a link to the actual interview.

CNN Hologram Video

The question now has to be asked. Is it Telepresence?

I’m no expert on the subject but I’m going to throw my hat into the ring, go out on a limb and say yes, I believe it is. Although I know many video conferencing purists are rolling their eyes and grabbing their guns right about now with my statement.

While I do know that Telepresence still hasn’t been universally defined (Houston, we have a problem), here’s how I see it…. Broken down to its simplest form - “tele” (through electronic means) and “presence” (present). This is how I’m justifying my opinion by lumping holography and Telepresence together. Just as Telepresence is surely an offshoot of video conferencing, holographic imaging (like we viewed on CNN) surely has to be considered an offshoot of Telepresence. The interviewer was “telepresent” from Chicago and beamed into the CNN Election Headquarters. She was most assuredly - “telepresent”. There was negligible latency, the imaging was fantastic and both interviewers were rehearsed on what they would say. I’ve just recently read that CNN actually “downgraded” the experience to make it “movie” quality and not as good as it could have been. Maybe they thought us mere mortals would be shocked if they showed their complete hand. I have a feeling it was so big to them, they didn’t want it to get upstaged by the historic election. I’m willing to bet we’ll see the “true” power of this technology in the upcoming weeks and months when they can put the pedal to the medal and show it off without having it sidetracked.

What an amazing time for this technology (all differences and opinions aside). Telepresence Doctors, nurses, teachers, schools and healthcare (healthpresence) will benefit from the recent gains in this state-of-the-art industry whether holograms, Telepresence or holography. Airlines also have to see the threat to a portion of their business travel. Hell, who wants go through security and fly to Miami for a two-hour conference when you can look them in the eye via Telepresence?

Beam me up Scotty! Simply amazing…!

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Your Editor and Administrator - L II
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Northborough, MA (PRWEB) September 4, 2007 -- Brockmann & Company (http://www.brockmann.com) has released its latest independent, self-funded report on the role of face-to-face meetings and audio, web and video conferencing in the conduct of business in the finance, banking, legal, insurance and real estate industries. The report, entitled "Conferencing in Finance, Banking, Legal, Insurance and Real Estate Industries (http://www.brockmann.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=951&Itemid=1)" is available for a limited time for free download on http://www.brockmann.com

Peter Brockmann, President and Research Director of Brockmann & Company said, "Conferencing is important to business success. Users invest 25% of the time attending face-to-face meetings or using audio conferencing, web conferencing and video conferencing technologies and services. This report is the first in a series to be published in the coming months on the practices and insights within various industry groupings."

Unified communications is an important part of every business workflow so providing insight on how conferencing products, services and features fit is a useful consideration for both vendors and users alike, as they contemplate their unified communications strategies. Some of the report findings include:

- Audio conferencing is the most important conferencing service, even more important than face-to-face meetings

- Half of the respondents would rather pay $83.33 to attend a video conference than drive 40 miles to a face-to-face meeting

- Better video conferencing quality is the most important factor in decision about video conferencing

Brockmann added, "Despite being less important to job performance, the most frequent conferencing capability used in terms of total minutes for the finance, banking, legal, insurance and real estate markets was face-to-face meetings representing half of all time spent conferencing with more than two persons."

About Brockmann & Company

Brockmann & Company is a consulting & advisory firm serving high tech equipment & application vendors and service providers. Clients accelerate growth through customer research & thought leadership. Our motto: "In God we trust, all others bring data." Learn more at http://www.brockmann.com

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