Editing Telepresence (section)

== Benefits ==
An industry expert described some benefits of telepresence: "There were four drivers for our decision to do more business over video and telepresence. We wanted to reduce our travel spend, reduce our carbon footprint and environmental impact, improve our employees' work/life balance, and improve employee productivity.".<ref>[https://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0403965.htm Companies Worldwide Rely on Polycom Video and Telepresence to Cut Carbon Emissions for a Greener Planet] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080609052708/http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0403965.htm |date=2008-06-09 }}, CNN June 5, 2008</ref>
[[File:Edward Snowden's Surprise Appearance at TED.jpg|thumb|American exile [[Edward Snowden]] participates in a [[TED (conference)|TED talk]] in Texas from Russia via telepresence robot, March 2014]]
Rather than [[travel]]ing great distances in order to have a face-face meeting, it is now commonplace to use a telepresence system instead, which uses a multiple codec video system (which is what the word "telepresence" most currently represents). Each member/party of the meeting uses a telepresence room to "dial in" and can see/talk to every other member on a [[Display device|screen]]/screens as if they were in the same room. This brings enormous time and cost benefits. It is also superior to phone conferencing (except in cost), as the visual aspect greatly enhances communications, allowing for perceptions of facial expressions and other body languages.

[[Mobile collaboration]] systems combine the use of video, audio and on-screen drawing capabilities using newest generation hand-held mobile devices to enable multi-party conferencing in real-time, independent of location. Benefits include cost-efficiencies resulting from accelerated problem resolution, reductions in downtimes and travel, improvements in customer service and increased productivity.<ref>{{cite news
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