Robotic Teleconferencing

Mike Elgan writes "Hewlett-Packard Labs unveiled to the press May 23 a system for teleconferencing with lifelike realism.Called the BiReality remote communication system, the project involves a remote-controlled robot on one end, and a total-immersion environment on the other, giving the user the ability to roam hallways, hold conversations and interact remotely through the robot."

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Re:Will tomorrow...

[evbergen]

Of course, the next step would be to interlink robots in such a way that if one robot is observed by another, you see an image of the owner instead of the robot.

At that point, it's only a tiny step away to skip the whole robot and camera business and to interact virtually only.

Of course, I sincerely hope to be dead before this becomes the only practical way of being in contact with people.