TY  - BOOK
AU  - 
AU  - Bennett, Drake
ED  - 
ED  - 
ED  - Business Week.Feb 21-27,2011.
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SN  - 2
PY  - 0000///46
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KW  - 2
KW  - 0
KW  - 6
KW  - 20
KW  - Video teleconferencing;  Robots;  Virtual reality;  Interpersonal communication;  Business travel;  Technological change
KW  - sears0
N1  - ABSTRACT :  In the past few years, a set of technologies has emerged with the potential to change the calculation that there is no substitute for face-to-face contact. The term the creators of these new tools use is telepresence. Some are custom-built meeting rooms with a bank of high-definition screens and cameras, others take the form of vaguely humanoid robots. Cisco and Polycom are currently the two biggest players in the field -- a third, the Norwegian company Tandberg, was bought by Cisco in 2010 -- and the market they are battling over is growing. The experience that telepresence provides is qualitatively different from other remote technologies -- richer and more immediate. Both the telepresence rooms, with their high-definition immersiveness, and the robots, simply by providing a remote body to take for a spin, defused many of the cues that make distance feel distant. This sensation is a testament to the power of the technology; 5
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