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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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Canberra, ACT (PRWEB) April 17, 2008 -- Telstra has gone live with the Funnelback Hosted search service for its telecommunications site, http://www.nowwearetalking.com.au. Search on the site covers content contained in forums, blogs and online discussions as well as user stories and questions. The Funnelback technology is deployed as a fully outsourced solution which is managed by the Funnelback team of search experts.

Funnelback's CEO, Brett Matson says, "Funnelback search will enable those interested in telecommunications to easily find the right information. Funnelback's context aware ranking algorithm enables the search engine to target the correct results because it's tuned to the specific structure and content of the Telstra web-site. The Funnelback categorisation feature also allows users to navigate through the search results to find the content they're looking for."

nowwearetalking's Chief Editor, Jeremy Mitchell says, "Our agreement with Funnelback provides our shareholders and customers with the opportunity to keep informed and participate in good debate about the future of telecommunications in Australia. Funnelback technology is now playing an important role in the telecommunications dialogue and in keeping the debate informed."

About http://www.nowwearetalking.com.au

nowwearetalking is a telecommunications site which encourages discussion and debate on important telecommunications issues.

About Funnelback

Funnelback offers Web and Enterprise Search Engine solutions. The Funnelback search engine has a world class result ranking algorithm at its core, which can be tuned to the specific information retrieval needs of its clients. Its core technology is used on a daily basis by organizations such as the Australian Government, Westpac Banking Corporation, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian Securities Exchange and ninemsn.

Funnelback is a subsidiary company of the CSIRO, Australia's premier scientific research organisation with over 6,500 staff.

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Telepresence - "Ride on the Next Plane of Existence" - Telepresence
Telepresence Web Portal - Telepresence Internet web portal
Telepresence Report - 24/7 breaking Telepresence related news and information
Via Telepresence - Video conferencing via Telepresence
Telepresence Forum - Free user discussion forum for everything Telepresence related
Telepresence Today - Telepresence information and editor qualified headline news
Telepresence Resource Directory - Telepresence web resource directory
Telepresence Tube - Telepresence videos, pictures and more