The Next Big Leap
October 15, 2008
So here it is, the next big technology leap for telepresence – the world’s first multi-touch surface computing environment for telepresence that has real business applications (and real business value!). Yes, I know you probably already saw that this entry is over eight minutes long – what can I say, I can talk faster than any motor-mouthed New Yorker and this time I didnt even come up for air until minute eight. But I digress…I promised I would talk futures so let’s dive in. I am and have always been a technology dreamer. My bookcase is filled with titles like ‘Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach’ and ‘Society of the Mind’ – yup, I know that most people would consider this B-O-R-I-N-G. But to me, titles such as these are the basis for a long string of ideas (some more successful than others) that I run through at marathon pace and hope that my Teliris Telepresence Research Labs team can keep up and help me mature my thoughts into fully formed reality. One particular member of my team, interestingly enough the one who has been with me the longest, said ‘your dreams become my nightmares’ and after I laughed hard for a few minutes I realized its TRUE!
But as a self professed technology innovator, it would be virtually impossible to be the thinker and the only doer, so that’s where my team steps into the wake of my ideas and makes them reality. Now I realize that this is not an easy job to have, listen to my visions for telepresence and work with me to turn them into something tangible, but my guys takes it in stride (I dont usually spew out sonnets of praise, so if you are reading this team, it’s NOT a golden opp to ask for a raise). The latest of these innovations is something my entire team is more than a little proud of.
You may have seen something that resembles it before at AT&T phone stores, in Vegas casinos or on the Microsoft website … but trust me on this one, that version is nothing like the one that we’ve created. Imagine a world where you can hand a document to someone thousands of miles away instantaneously, a world where technology is so transparent, so real that passing, editing, manipulating content feels the same as if you were sitting in the same room. Take a look here and watch for much much more to come.
October 16, 2008 at 10:12 am
Marc: That’s a compelling video! I’ve not previously seen this next step in telepresence technology. Telepresence and other digital collaboration technologies can create oceans of records, which could be relevant for lawsuits, investigations and internal control. As the technologies grow more popular, enterprises must evaluate how to address these massive records under retention policies. Yet that issue is by no means a deterrent to the adoption of telepresence. In fact, good records are valuable! –Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2008/02/collaboration-e-discovery-and-record.html
October 20, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I agree that digital technology creates “oceans” of content. The interesting thing is that Telepresence actually creates little digital trail since it is real time technology that is not recorded or retained. It is like a phone call or a face to face meeting… low residual foot print and that is why our users like it. The foundation of Teliris product is security while you are using and little residual foot print. I am interested in what the regulators will do with these types of technology given the new world we now live in.