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Telepresence — the Future of Telephony
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Abstract
BT is a leading international supplier of telepresence in the form of telephony. Telepresence enables “people as content”, and there are rapidly developing and wide-ranging opportunities for broadband, mobile, multimedia telepresence services. In marked contrast with the relatively ubiquitous and consistent telephone, our vision for future telepresence services encompasses a wide variety of “terminals”, ranging in physical scale from personal wearable devices through more conventional desktop or living room hardware to immersive room-based systems. This chapter focuses on our desktop work, outlining our vision for both business and residential services, and reporting early results from user experiments.
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