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
Why Teleplace?
Collaboration tools increase the performance of an organization. Whether your goal is to expand top-line revenue with more effective sales and marketing, or improve the bottom line with more efficient operations, an investment in collaboration offers a direct path to improved organizational performance.
With the rise of virtual worlds technologies, collaboration has the potential to be much richer, more immediate, and more effective. Teleplace is focused on turning that potential into reality by applying virtual worlds technologies to business collaboration applications. With the innovative features in Teleplace, collaboration using the key essential dynamic of "speech-gesture-sketch" is now possible. This is a breakthrough in functionality and represents an inflection point in what it means to use collaboration tools.
Beyond the improved communication made possible through virtual collaboration, this breakthrough technology also enables persistence combined with the ability for users to be in the same virtual space while working on related but different applications or content. This mirrors the physical world, where people might work together but on their own specific work. This capability has not been available with traditional collaboration tools. For example, web conferencing has meant one person communicating their slides or desktop to others, with limited to no interactivity.
Finally, Teleplace makes it simple. A typical user can be up and running in a short period (think minutes, not hours). Teleplace creates the ultimate next-generation collaboration environment.
Teleplace means "Virtual Spaces for Real Work"!
