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What’s the difference between Video Conferencing and Telepresence?

Telepresence picks up where video conferencing left off. Telepresence IS real time, full-high-definition, immersible sound and vision. Telepresence IS most importantly: the feeling of being “there” when you’re “here”. Telepresence is lifelike, video conferencing is not. Telepresence is that hi-line Mercedes AMG, video conferencing is a Ford Escort - Period.

Why Telepresence now?

Video conferencing has been around a while now but has always lacked the feeling we spoke about above. Jumpy computer screens, broken audio and poor lighting add to the impersonal touches of video conferencing (ie slow motion camcorder on top of your computer monitor). Finally, technology, bandwidth, vision and sound have all converged on video conferencing to create the telepresence experience. It’s about time! Crystal clear surround sound and real-time full-high-definition visual effects enhance the feeling of being there – thus telepresence. That nervous twitch, roll of the eyes, sniffle, tap of the foot – things you see when you’re present and sitting across a conference room table – things you don’t see or feel from video conferencing, but do with telepresence.

Today, what “real” uses are there for Telepresence?

There is no short answer even possible here. We’ll name a few, more like we’ll put your imagination to work. Imagine a single specialist doctor in Canada treating patients in Haiti via telepresence. Robots in space doing the actual work while the telepresence operator dons his telepresence helmet and gloves at his workstation in Texas. Meeting your Russian company vice president while you’re in the executive telepresence room at the office in Denver. Just a few…

What are “real” savings of Telepresence?

Your imagination still working on the last answer? Don’t let up yet! What carbon footprint? Don’t need that airplane ticket to go check on your staff in Russia now do you? What lost life in the Iraqi war? Unmanned drones and soldiers via telepresence. Military and combat cost savings? Immeasurable. Less travel costs, airline frustration, fuel, lost time, carbon emissions, etc. Those are tangible, real savings to name just a very limited few.

You starting to see what telepresence can do that video conferencing can’t? We hope you see what we’re seeing! Telepresence – its time has arrived!

Check out the video thread in Section 8 of the Telepresence Forum where you can watch some Telepresence YouTube videos! If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video must be worth a million!

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Orange County (PRWEB) June 2, 2007 -- Nicholas Sauer, VP of Research and Development at BrightCom, Inc. and Bob McCandless, CEO of BrightCom, Inc. will present "Telepresence Solutions for Homeland Security-To Infinity and Beyond" at this years Telepresence World conference in San Diego, June 5th in San Diego, California. The presentation will highlight BrightCom's latest deployment of integrated telepresence and web conferencing solutions at the Department of Homeland Security and Los Angeles Police Department's Joint Regional Intelligence Center (JRIC) located in Los Angeles, California.

The challenge that JRIC faced, was to determine how to connect a vast range of departments to aid in the prevention of potential threats to national security. JRIC's effort to find new ways of departmental communication was the first-of-its-kind to solve this challenge and improve federal, state and local law enforcement collaboration.

"Technology enables us to analyze a lot of information quickly and get access quickly," Michael Chertoff, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said. "But the human element is important here."

This combination of the human element of telepresence conferencing systems and real time web conferencing integrated application and data sharing is exactly how BrightCom was able to approach JRIC's challenge of departmental collaboration.

"This is truly a partnership that has come together at just the right time," Chief William J. Bratton said. "Through this partnership, we are building on the spirit of cooperation between law enforcement agencies."

BrightCom's Visual Collaboration System (VCS) unifies personnel from different law enforcement agencies, connecting conference room technology, desktop PCs and mobile laptop clients, and allowing multiple participants to experience on-line conferences at any time and from any location. The multi-agency JRIC team members can share video clip content, documents, live computer screens and a whole host of other data, in addition to experiencing live telepresence integration with BrightCom's ClearView video and audio conferencing system. Analysts and investigators can use these features to their advantage as they collect and collaborate on intelligence from agencies all over the country.

"The future of collaboration and telepresence technology is very much capable of breaking down conference room walls and is prepared to take on the challenges of every organization whether it is for the unification of our nation's law enforcement or its' enterprise business leaders" said Bob McCandless, CEO of BrightCom.

Nicholas Sauer and Bob McCandless will be presenting their case study on Homeland Security, telepresence and on-line conferencing solutions at this year's Telepresence World conference on June 5th, 2007 in San Diego, California. Telepresence World 2007 is a meeting of top leaders in telepresence, presence and unified collaboration and will showcase the leading experts in video, audio and web conferencing solutions including BrightCom, Cisco, Polycom, and others. Both of BrightCom's leading solutions, VCS and ClearView Conferencing Technologies will be on display in the exhibitors showcase.

About BrightCom, Inc.
BrightCom specializes in creating advanced collaboration and communication products and solutions for business customers. Our products break down the walls of conference room technology connecting remote corporate users, suppliers, and customers together with easy to use, simple to deploy, cost effective solutions. We empower businesses to leverage the power of telepresence and collaboration across the enterprise.

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