[ExI] My presentation at TransVision 2010: Online conferences 2.0

[Giulio Prisco]

My presentation at TransVision 2010: Online conferences 2.0
http://giulioprisco.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-presentation-at-transvision-2010.html

One problem with conferences is that participating costs money and
time. Today many conferences offer live video streams of all talks and
discussion, which is very important for those who cannot attend
physically. Some recent conferences like the ASIM 2010 Conference in
San Francisco (satellite to the Singularity Summit 2010) have offered
fully interactive remote participation with multi-user video, audio,
text and document sharing (“mixed-reality”).

Mixed-reality via modern telepresence technology permits opening
conferences to remote participants by merging on-site and remote
participants in one virtual group. The 2-way video and audio link
enables each participant, on-site or remote, to be seen and heard by
all other participants, on-site or remote. Remote speakers and
attendees are able to actively participate, follow the talks via
interactive video streaming, ask questions to the speakers, contribute
to the discussion, and give talks themselves. Of course, modern
telepresence technology permits also online-only “conferences 2.0″,
and I think this is an important trend. Going back to “one problem
with conferences is that participating costs money and time“, it is
evident that online conferences 2.0 permit saving a lot of money and
time, thus enabling more people to participate in cultural
acceleration.

I will present our teleXLR8 project based on Teleplace, recently
covered by Hypergrid Business, one of the best online magazines
focused on professional applications of virtual reality, “as an online
open TED, using modern telepresence technology for ideas worth
spreading, and as a next generation, fully interactive TV network with
a participative audience.” See also “teleXLR8 Project News – a
telepresence community for cultural acceleration“, our mini-manifesto
Telepresence Education for a Smarter World on the IEET site and the
interview MIND and MAN: Getting Mental with Giulio Prisco, by Natasha
Vita-More, on H+ Magazine.