Teliris officially launched their 4th generation offering with a press release that hit the wire on October 3rd. The complete press release can be found Here. Excerpts with my usual emphasis and thoughts and analysis below.

Artist rendition of the Teliris VirtuaLive modular system that provides a more seamless and immersive experience than traditional flat-screen displays with a smaller footprint than systems with engineered environments. Rendering © Teliris 2006

Teliris Redefines Telepresence With the Introduction of Their New VirtuaLive(TM) Offerings

Teliris' Fourth Generation Technology Provides Optimum Meeting Solutions With the Most Effective, Natural Collaborative Environment

NEW YORK, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Teliris, the leading provider of telepresence solutions, today introduced VirtuaLive(TM), its fourth-generation technology product line. The VirtuaLive(TM) enhanced technology provides the most natural and intimate virtual meeting environment on the market, and is available in a broad set of room offerings designed to meet the specific needs of its customers.

Building on Teliris' third generation GlobalTable(TM) telepresence solutions, VirtuaLive(TM) provides enhanced quality video and broadband audio, realistically replicating an in-person meeting experience by capturing and transmitting the most subtle visual gestures and auditory cues.

"All future Teliris solutions will fall under the VirtuaLive(TM) umbrella of offerings," said Marc Trachtenberg, Teliris CEO. "With such an advanced technology platform and range of solutions, companies can select the immersive experience that best fits their business environment and goals."

VirtuaLive's(TM) next generation of Virtual Vectoring(TM) is at the center of the new offerings. It provides users with unparalleled eye-to-eye contact from site-to-site in multipoint meetings with various numbers of participants within each room. No other vendor offering can match the natural experience created by advanced technology in such diverse environments.

All VirtuaLive(TM) offerings include Teliris' next generation Virtual Vectoring(TM) technology with enhanced directional audio and optionally include true end-to-end broadcast quality HD throughout every component of the system. This is the first true broadcast quality HD telepresence offering in the industry, further demonstrating Teliris' leadership position in this space. Selective offerings will have the ability to integrate collaboration tools such as a virtual lectern, digital flip chart and DVD/CD replay.

Slated for release later this year, Teliris' VirtuaLive(TM) provides two additional solutions: VirtuaLive(TM) Modular and VirtuaLive(TM) 360. VirtuaLive(TM) Modular is a proprietary offering designed to easily fit within a company's existing room configurations and requires a less design-intensive installation process. VirtuaLive(TM) 360 provides a full-featured collaboration environment including options such as video and animation editing, storyboard collaboration, music composition editing and a laboratory collaboration environment.

With over a 99 percent level of guaranteed system availability, Teliris' VirtuaLive(TM) solutions deliver the most realistic telepresence environment available -- all transmitted over a secure and fully managed proprietary network.

Teliris GlobalTable VirtuaLive 360 - Notice the lectern at the front right of the room with the monitor where a remote presenter would be visible and the large format touch sensitive SMARTBoard. Photo © Teliris 2006

HSL's Thoughts and Analysis

The Lab brought you the first sneak peak of the upcoming Teliris VirtuaLive offering on June 14th in this HPL article and now Teliris VirtuaLive is officially For Sale! The system represents a number of telepresence industry firsts:

* The industry's first true high definition production telepresence environment (The industry's first high definition solution award went to Digital Video Enterprise's Executive Telepresence System bundled with LifeSize Communication's high definition camera and codec )

* The first telepresence environment provider to offer options for virtual lectern, digital flipchart, and stand up presentation.

At Powwow Networks, the visual collaboration start up I co-founded in 2001 with Brent Houlahan, our unofficial motto was "It's the Data Stupid" I.E. in many meetings "seeing what I see" is often just as important or more important than "seeing me". In 2001 none of the traditional videoconferencing companies were addressing the problem of effectively working with data and one of the problems that we were trying to solve at Powwow was improving the human factors of data collaboration in a visual collaboration environment. We were marrying rear projection SMART Boards and webconferencing to provide the usual and customary tools in their usual and customary formats especially the ability to whiteboard naturally between locations which we considered essential.

Fast forward to 2006. The telepresence and videoconferencing industries have caught on to the importance of effectively collaborating with data and Teliris leads the field with more options than any of the other telepresence solution providers which, frankly, impresses me more than high definition video (Did I mention our unoffical motto use to be: "It's the Data Stupid?" :-) From stand up presentation to document replication to Interactive SMARTBoards to the Digital Flip Charting System (that I believe is based on the Polyvision Thunder which is the data collaboration product I would most like to experience right now... please e-mail me if anyone knows where I can find one in Northern Virginia) Teliris offers the widest array of collaboration options.

While I would like to write more on this... It is 3:00 in the AM and tomorrow... uh...make that today... I have a 7:00 AM shower, an 8:00 AM conference call and a 9:00 AM breakfast meeting in Herndon so... to all a good night!

HSL on the West Coast Next Week

I will be on the west coast next week visiting the good folks at Cisco in San Jose, getting a tour of HP Labs in Palo Alto (the other HPL), a visit with Polycom in Pleasanton, and a site visit to the campus of the University of San Diego where we will be holding our first TelePresence World conference on June 4th, 5th, and 6th. For an analyst and consultant in the field of telepresence and visual collaboration I seem to spend a ridiculous amount of time in the flying aluminum tube...

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