Elearning! Magazine: Building Smarter Companies via Learning & Workplace Technologies.
Telepresenceand the
MARKET ADOPTION OF THE NEW TECHNOLOGY WILL PICK UP SPEED AS UNDERLYING NETWORKS ARE BUILT OUT AND THE TECHNOLOGY ITSELF BECOMES MORE PERVASIVE.
BY TIM MARTIN
Virtual classroom technologies have matured as a result of the rapid growth of market share and adoption rates. They are quickly becoming the most common delivery environment for instructor led training (ILT). This shift from bricks and - mortar class rooms to digital environments offers tremendous benefits. These tools have become ubiquitous in extended enterprises for good reason. They are reli- able, efficient and user friendly at a time when enterprise learning organizations are under tremendous pressure to empower
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their organizations to be highly agile. Virtual classrooms are sophisticated enough to meet the needs of most ILT events. Now comes Telepresence.
TELEPRESENCE DEFINED
Telepresence is a high end video conferenc- ing solution positioned in the virtual meet- ing solution. Telepresence is not simply data and software adapted with features and functions that mimic natural human inter- actions; it is a platform for the communi- cating by use of the natural human interac-