Last year, according to the Global Business Travel Association. 427 million Americans have business trips. They went to sales presentations, site visits, review of activities, meet suppliers, customers to appease political pressure on people just laid off from work, job interviews and staff. Went to business meetings, exhibitions, conferences, training rides, and visit the face uncovered. Then he traveled more than back home.
The bill for all this was $ 228 000 000 000, which passed by countless gallons of fuel, tons of carbon dioxide, the hours lost in traffic and family dinners. All because of the belief that there is no substitute for face to face. It’s easy and instantly project parts of ourselves at great distances can: the phone is our voice, e-mail sent our letter, video, transfer your images. But this is not a sense of human presence, the feeling that someone is actually in front of us. For people that the size and gain their trust and good, with a complex and dynamic, it must be there to work.
In recent years, a number of technologies, with the opportunity to change this estimate rose. Term designers use these new tools is “telepresence.” Some meeting rooms with a bank of high-definition screens and cameras are designed individually, others take the form of vaguely humanoid robots. None of them deceive people to believe their partners at a distance I think even more that viewers of a 3D movie, in fact, are at risk during a chase on the screen. Viewers fall further, however.
“One can someone look into your eyes,” said Rich Redelfs, a business partner of Foundation Capital Company, a telepresence suite to meet uses built by Cisco Systems (CSCO) company, many of them in India, the Fund is considering investing in “Much of what we do at the risk of investing in people, you want someone looking to say that in the eyes and-”. I trust this person to write a check for several million dollars, we believe we can do with telepresence “
Already have Fortune 500 companies such as Bank of America (BAC), PepsiCo (PEP), Procter & Gamble installed (PG) and Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A) “Cisco immersion suites, which cost more than $ 300.000 for management meetings. P & G is also difficult for consumer groups. The software company Autodesk (ADSK) has 20 global telepresence suites reduced, and travel by 16 percent since the installation of three early years. The game developer Zynga social uses of the units immersive Polycom (PLCM) to coordinate the designers and programmers at a distance, CBS (CBS) are The Good Wife organizes meetings Bicoastal Writers’ through them. Hospitals were established for neurologists to remotely diagnose stroke patients arriving at the emergency room. Polycom CEO Andrew Miller, said an executive of a man in the garage of his vacation home in Hawaii has been installed. “I can not say his name, of course, but it is one of the many,” said Miller.
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