Gartner: Telepresence will replace 2.1 million airline seats annually over next 3 years

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by gravitycop • 17 years ago

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gravitycop2• 17 years ago

From the article:

Again, Gartner was saying the technology would take away $3.5 billion from the airline industry - this year. And that's just airline tickets. The total figure of corporate savings would also include room, board and other travel-related expenses.

All of this adds up to a persuasive return on investment (ROI). "Most telepresence systems pay for themselves within a year," said Erika Schroeder, senior marketing manager of Cisco TelePresence.

pg2• 17 years ago

Rtm's going to attend the next YC dinner using a QA

which actually bear more than a passing resemblance to him...

gravitycop2• 17 years ago

That's interesting news. I had been wondering, myself, about the possibility of virtual YC-dinner attendance.

brk• 17 years ago

While that's novel, I predict it will be a bit of a letdown for him personally. A robot with a video screen of your face and relatively-limited field of view is going to make for very poor interaction on both sides.

Until/unless that technology gets a lot better, I suspect it will be like the "cell phone lag", only 100x worse.

pg2• 17 years ago

We already know what it will be like for him because Trevor and I both tried being QA for a while at the last YC dinner to test it out. It's much better than being on a speakerphone-- you can actually roll up to a group of people and join their conversation-- but not, obviously, as good as being there in person.

It feels roughly like being in a cardboard box with a small, smudged little window to look out of. Which tells me the most important thing for Trevor to improve: the cameras.

Gartner: Telepresence will replace 2.1 million airline seats annually over next 3 years

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