TelePresence.

At its core, business is about face-to-face relationships. Whether those relationships are between a board member and corporate officer, salesperson and client, or partners in a joint venture, effective business communication remains a combination of understanding, mutual advantage and trust best exercised eye-to-eye between the main participants. Telepresence greatly improves end-user acceptance, which dramatically increases usage and substantially improves demand, ROI and customer satisfaction. While a variety of methods can be used to deliver telepresence solutions, they typically offer some combination of the following improvements over the traditional video conferencing:

• Life-size participants.
• Fluid motion.
• Accurate flesh tones.
• Studio quality video, lighting and acoustics.
• The absence of visible technology.
• True eye contact, or the approximation of eye contact in large group settings.
• Immersive and/or mirrored environments where participants feel as if they are in the same physical space.
• A consistency-of-quality between disparate locations.