Teleplace
IDC
"[Teleplace] 2.0 provides a rich 3D collaboration environment that makes virtual meetings, presentations, training sessions, and other interactions as real as possible without getting on a plane."
- Mark Levitt, program VP, Collaboration and Enterprise 2.0 Strategies at IDC from Teleplace press release 4/20/2009
Teleplace 3.5 Scalable platform for trusted collaboration Now with SharePoint Support
Like offices and meeting rooms, Teleplace are places where users can go to work, to collaborate with others, and to identify and solve issues. Whether you are working internally with other team members and groups, or need to collaborate with supply chain partners or customers, Teleplace have powerful features that simplify setting up and working in highly collaborative environments.
Teleplace Key Features
New in Version 3.5
- SharePoint: Collaborate live over documents managed in your SharePoint server, with automatic checkin/checkout, transparent authentication, and secured access rights
- Build Tools: Create and edit 3-D scenes and workspaces using intuitive new build tools supporting multi-select, grouping, copy/paste and multi-level undo/redo, all organized using a new searchable Objects Catalog
- Echo Cancel: On Windows 7 and Windows Vista, use open microphones and speakers, no need for a headset or push-to-talk mode
- Secure Broadcast: Enable teams to share live video and audio with larger audiences without giving complete access to content (available in Beta, contact support for more information)
Version 3.0
- Scalable: Hold meetings with up to 100 colleagues at once, and deploy flexible, load-balanced server capacity for thousands of users behind your firewall
- Moderated Meetings: Leaders maximize meeting productivity by controlling who can talk, assembling participants instantly at any location, conducting on-the-fly polling, and easing entry for new users
- Training Center: A brand new template tuned for training, featuring amphitheater seating with presenter podium, sound-separated breakout rooms, new research and collaboration tools, all in a customizable multi-floor layout
- Corporate Communications: Broadcast live from your immersive environment to large corporate audiences, using only standard desktop media players, one solution for both your collaboration and event communication needs
Workflow Integration
- Meeting DVR: Record Teleplace sessions with audio and video with choice of viewpoints, and still snapshots
- Landmark Links: Get everyone into meetings easily and on time by embedding web links in calendar invites, IM, email and wikis
- Mail: Automatically send mail to participants with meeting results, links to documents and chat log
- Smart Rooms: Update Teleplaces automatically with latest reports and data appearing in assigned locations and displays
- RSS streams: View Teleplace document updates automatically from your mailer or browser
Always Available
- Always-on Lobby: Track multiple projects in the lightweight 2-D Lobby, including presence indicators, private chat and document access
- Teleplace pages: Access recent activity from your web browser, including on your smart phone
Additional Media Support
- Streamed Media: Enjoy synchronized viewing of streamed MPEG-4 video with AAC sound
- Sound: Drag-and-drop sound files to create playback buttons
Drag-and-drop content. Content is easily made available to users; simply drag and drop content from your local folders or desktop into Teleplace and it will be automatically uploaded and made available to other users. Share information contained in corporate applications or desktop applications such as Adobe® PDF documents, Microsoft® Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files, images, and even 3-D content by dragging files from local or network folders and dropping into a Teleplace virtual workspace.
Immediate interactivity. Using Teleplace Multi-Share™, multiple users can edit content together within a virtual space. All participants see edits in real-time. Once a work item is completed, content can be saved to your local desktop or folders for further processing.
Always available. Teleplace are available all the time. Participants can work with others in real time or go to a Teleplace at any other time and see the changes made by other team members since you were there last.
Highly immersive. Unlike traditional 2-D collaboration environments, Teleplace' 3-D environment provides strong feedback that enhances teamwork and communication. Using avatars and unique "laser pointer" controls, participants can easily see where people are, what they are looking at, what content they are editing, and how they are using applications. In combination with Teleplace' built-in high fidelity VoIP, webcam video-conferencing and text chat, users have a highly immersive environment and important social cues that help them learn and work more effectively.
Persistence. The virtual spaces in Teleplace are designed to be dynamic and evolving. Users can save the state of a Teleplace virtual space at any time. The saved state includes any editing made by users to documents or content in the space; for example, if you had been working on a budgeting spreadsheet, any changes you and other users made to that spreadsheet would be saved along with the rest of the state of the virtual space. This capability provides a powerful way for users to work on projects that cannot be completed in one session and allows them to leave incremental work updates for each other when working asynchronously.
Simple virtual workspace creation. Create meeting rooms, offices, lab rooms or other indoor spaces from existing room templates. The templates provide ready-to-use rooms that can be used right away or further customized. Use the Teleplace Virtual Campus™ to create outdoor spaces. All spaces can be linked together using drag and drop commands.
See the Teleplace Product Overview
