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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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(PRWEB) November 1, 2007 -- MF Digital, an industry leader in Optical Disc Solutions, enhances technical support by partnering with WebEx to offer on-line, real-time technical support to remote CD DVD Duplicators ultimately reducing equipment down time and increases customer satisfaction.

WebEx on-demand software solutions create a solution for both MF Digital technicians and MF Digital customers in providing a real-time diagnostics and trouble shooting environment for immediate technical support. "Through WebEx services, MF Digital technicians may log-in, view and control remote CD DVD duplicators for real-time troubleshooting and diagnostics," says John McGrath. "This service allows MF Digital to work with off site CD DVD Copiers as if they are sitting in our own shop."

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McGrath continues, "MF Digital continues to lead the industry in creative and innovative ways to support both the reseller and end-user. Whether it be cutting edge technology features for CD DVD Duplicators or technical support methods to reduce down time and increase customer satisfaction, MF Digital will continue to drive industry innovation."

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About MF Digital

MF Digital, based in East Farmingdale, NY, and a division of Formats Unlimited, has been developing optical disc solutions for over a decade. The company's extensive line of high quality manual and auto-loading CD-R and DVD-R/+R duplicators, publishers and imaging products are used throughout the A/V, graphic arts, medical and data/enterprise networking industries. MF Digital CD/DVD optical solutions employ Microsoft's Windows XP platform to provide ease of use and scalability. For more information, visit http://www.mfdigital.com or contact Greg Morris at gregm @ mfdigital.com for further marketing information.

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