iLinc Multi-User Video Offers Better, Cheaper Alternative to Traditional Video Conferencing Systems: Video Conferencing Using Internet is a Standar

Video Conferencing vs. Telepresence

Telepresence picks up where video conferencing left off. Telepresence IS real time, full-high-definition, immersible sound and vision. Telepresence IS most importantly: the feeling of being “there” when you’re “here”. Telepresence is lifelike, video conferencing is not. Telepresence is that hi-line Mercedes AMG, video conferencing is a Ford Escort - Period.

Video conferencing has been around a while now but has always lacked the feeling we spoke about above. Jumpy computer screens, broken audio and poor lighting add to the impersonal touches of video conferencing (ie slow motion camcorder on top of your computer monitor). Finally, technology, bandwidth, vision and sound have all converged on video conferencing to create the telepresence experience. It’s about time! Crystal clear surround sound and real-time full-high-definition visual effects enhance the feeling of being there – thus telepresence. That nervous twitch, roll of the eyes, sniffle, tap of the foot – things you see when you’re present and sitting across a conference room table – things you don’t see or feel from video conferencing, but do with telepresence.

Today, what “real” uses are there for Telepresence?

There is no short answer even possible here. We’ll name a few, more like we’ll put your imagination to work. Imagine a single specialist doctor in Canada treating patients in Haiti via telepresence. Robots in space doing the actual work while the telepresence operator dons his telepresence helmet and gloves at his workstation in Texas. Meeting your Russian company vice president while you’re in the executive telepresence room at the office in Denver. Just a few…

What are “real” savings of Telepresence?

Your imagination still working on the last answer? Don’t let up yet! What carbon footprint? Don’t need that airplane ticket to go check on your staff in Russia now do you? What lost life in the Iraqi war? Unmanned drones and soldiers via telepresence. Military and combat cost savings? Immeasurable. Less travel costs, airline frustration, fuel, lost time, carbon emissions, etc. Those are tangible, real savings to name just a very limited few.

You starting to see what telepresence can do that video conferencing can’t? We hope you see what we’re seeing! Telepresence – its time has arrived!

Check out the video thread in Section 8 of the Telepresence Forum where you can watch some Telepresence YouTube videos! If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video must be worth a million!

Ride on the "Next Plane of Existence" TM

PHOENIX (Business Wire EON) November 27, 2007 -- "While other conferencing providers demand companies spend inordinate amounts of capital on flat screen televisions and expensive digital media systems, iLinc users can host virtual face-to-face meetings today without spending a dime on new infrastructure equipment," said James M. Powers, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of iLinc Communications. "Our multi-point, simultaneous stream video can bring together participants from across the world whether they're in a high-end board room or sitting on the beach with a laptop."

iLinc's hosted and installed conferencing suite comes standard with the industry's most flexible and easy to integrate Web conferencing and collaboration tools, including fully-integrated multi-point video. iLinc Web meetings allow everyone to see multiple participant videos at the same time; attendees can choose to display or hide their videos and select which attendees' videos they wish to view. For those companies that have already invested in end-to-end traditional dedicated systems, iLinc offers integration to extend those in room meetings to the desktop and leverage their existing investment using iLinc's free and fully supported API.

In fact, multi-point video requires nothing more than a webcam to turn a Web conference into a multimedia video conference. In addition to superior Web conferencing, the technology behind iLinc's multi-point video enables users to provide powerful one-to-one or one-to-many events, enhanced online training, engaging presentations and interactive virtual classroom sessions.

"Multi-point video is the next best thing to being there, and in some cases it's even better than being there," said Powers. "Businesses are looking for ways to save money, not increase spending. When you add in such variables as time and the environmental impact of driving or flying to a meeting, iLinc just makes sense."

About iLinc Communications, Inc.

iLinc Communications, Inc. is a leading developer of Web conferencing software and audio conferencing solutions for highly secure and cost-effective online meetings, presentations, and training sessions. The Company's technology allows people in diverse locations to communicate and collaborate online while avoiding the expense, environmental damage, and productivity losses associated with travel. iLinc provides an award-winning, enterprise-wide suite of Web, audio and video conferencing solutions that can be scaled up or down to meet the needs of any size organization. Offering the industry's most flexible pricing models, iLinc gives organizations the power to choose an on-premise installed, on-demand hosted, or hybrid solution--whichever model delivers the highest ROI for the customer. iLinc is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, with offices in Troy, New York and Salt Lake City, Utah.

iLinc, iLinc Communications, iLinc Suite, MeetingLinc, LearnLinc, ConferenceLinc, SupportLinc, EventPlus, and their respective logos are trademarks of iLinc Communications, Inc. All other company names and products may be trademarks of their respective companies.

Custom Search

To learn more about this state-of-the-art immersive technology categorized as "Telepresence", visit these websites:

Telepresence Today - Telepresence information and editor qualified headline news

Telepresence Forum - Free user discussion forum

Telepresence Report - 24/7 breaking Telepresence related news and information