Exploration and implementation of next generation telepresence system

EXPLORATION OF THE NEXT GENERATION TELEPRESENCE

SYSTEM

Presented ByVanditha R

Guided BySoumya KumariAsst. Prof. CSE Dept

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CONTENTS

• INTRODUCTION• TELEPRESENCE• VIRTUAL REALITY VS TELEPRESENCE• WHY TELEPRESENCE• IMPLEMENTATION• CASE STUDIES• ADVANTAGES OF TELEPRESENCE• CONCLUSION• REFERENCE

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"I could travel to over a dozen countries, visit hundreds of universities, spend months meeting with thousands of companies, but instead I get to see the best of the best during one single day via the geographic reach of the Global Network and the magic of Telepresence."

Tim DraperManaging directorDraper Fisher Jurvetson

INTRODUCTION

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• A telepresence can be defined as the ability to share videos , data , audio etc with a distant site as though the person seems to be truly in the same room.

• Refers to a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present in a location other than their true location.

WHAT IS TELEPRESENCE ?..

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• The senses of users are provided with stimuli as to give them a feeling of being in that other location.

• User's position ,movements ,actions and voice may sensed , transmitted and duplicated in the remote location.

• The information travels in both directions between the user and the remote location.

WHAT IS TELEPRESENCE ? (…)

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VIRTUAL REALITY VS TELEPRESENCE

• It is an artificial environment created with software and presented to user in such a way that the user accepts it as a real environment.

• In virtual reality other entity will be a computer and in telepresence it will be a real environment.

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WHY TELEPRESENCE ?

• Low quality video.• Reduced Audio quality with large groups and

high latency.• Poor eye contact.• Document sharing is not possible.

Video Conferencing suffers from various pitfalls

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VIEW OF TELEPRESENCE SYSTEM

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COMPONENTS OF TELEPRESENCE SYSTEM

• Life Size Displays• Camera with eye contact correction• Wideband Sound System• Integrated Lighting System• Terminal for Display and Sharing of Data

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EYE CONTACT CORRECTION

“When participant users of traditional desktop videoconferencing without eye contact were asked if there was anything “awkward” about the experience, 68% responded in their own words commented on the lack of eye contact.“

(McNelley,

2000).

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EYE CONTACT CORRECTION(…)

Correction can be done using

Gaze Angle Correction

Special Hardware

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GAZE ANGLE CORRECTION

• Done with special image processing algorithms.

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TRUE IMMERSIVE DISPLAY

Camera is placed behind the screen.

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True Immersive Display(…)

Screen is specially designed.

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LIFE SIZE DISPLAY

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WIDEBAND AUDIO

•Latency and Lip Synch

•Audio Quality

•Spatial Orientation

•Voice Activation

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DATA DISPLAY TERMINAL

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TELEPRESENCE MODES

• Continuous Presence

• Switched Presence.

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CASE STUDIES

• Fortune 100 Financial Services Company saved $538,655 monthly when 81% of their meetings was done via telepresence.

• Pearson plc Media Company saved $2.1M annually on using telepresence.

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RELATIVE COST

Typical usage

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ADVANTAGES

• Telepresence provides face to face experience• Reduces cost of travel.• Reduces paperwork.• Enhanced Utility.• Better meeting productivity.• Better cost to performance ratio than Video

Conferencing on the long run.

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DISADVANTAGES

• High initial cost.

• Need for reliable network.

• High bandwidth requirement.

• Not suitable for small institutions.

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TIME LINE

AT&T launched VideoPhone 2500 in 1992.Mechanical Gaze, one of the first internet

controlled telepresence device introduced by UCB in 1995.

David Allen and Herold Williams founded TeleSuites, the world's first commercially successful telepresence company in 1998.

Cisco launched its commercial telepresence video conferencing system in 2006.

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CONCLUSION

• Business with telepresence can have live conferences with contacts all over the globe as if they were literally in the same room.

• Time sensitive issues can be resolved quickly and easily with effective collaboration.

• High return on investment for the future.

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REFERENCES

• Telepresence, Effective Visual Collaboration and the Future of Global Business at the Speed of Light,By Howard S. Lichtman

• Cisco TelePresence Overview, www.cisco.com/

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THANK YOU

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QUESTIONS PLEASE??