Will You Become Your Avatar? - Explore Telepresence in Virtual Worlds like Second Life with Bob McCandless at Telepresence World in San Diego, California June 4th

Bob McCandless, CEO of McCandless Group, parent company of telepresence leader BrightCom Inc, will present "Avatars: The Real You" at Telepresence World 2007 conference, June 4th at the University of San Diego, California. With deep research into on-line virtual communities, Mr. McCandless foresees the future of telepresence communication becoming immersed in three-dimensional virtual environments with real life three-dimensional Avatar representations of people. According to his thoughts, the limits and challenges of today's visual and audio conferencing solutions will be overcome by Avatar virtual interaction.

Orange County, CA (PRWEB) May 31, 2007 -- Bob McCandless, CEO of McCandless Group, parent company of telepresence leader BrightCom Inc, will present "Avatars: The Real You" at Telepresence World 2007 conference, June 4th at the University of San Diego, California. With deep research into on-line virtual communities, Mr. McCandless foresees the future of telepresence communication becoming immersed in three-dimensional virtual environments with real life three-dimensional Avatar representations of people. According to his thoughts, the limits and challenges of today's visual and audio conferencing solutions will be overcome by Avatar virtual interaction.

"People can interact on a higher level," said Bob. "It's easy to achieve eye contact (or gaze correction), and the ability to shake another Avatar's hand or see the human emotion they are portraying will allow telepresence technology to go beyond the current two-dimensional capabilities of visual and audio conferencing," said Bob.

One of the most successful phenomena resulting from Second Life, one of the many online virtual communities, is the ability to set up lectures and presentations allowing a global audience to sit in a virtual theater and experience a live presentation. By using BrightCom's high end telepresence and web conferencing solutions, participants in the audience can listen or watch the presenter and chat with their neighbors. With key features such as gaze correction, human emotional connectivity, and real time text language translation, holding global conferences in a mixed immersive three-dimensional virtual world combining both Avatar and real world video and audio conferencing is a way to push the boundaries of telepresence and open it up to higher levels of personal collaboration, he said.

Bob believes that business leaders of the future will expect a fully interactive environment that is an extension of the powerful communication and network technologies such as text messaging, social networking, and on-line virtual gaming of today. Mixed dimensional virtual immersive environments will allow their expectations of telepresence technology to be met, said Bob.

Bob McCandless will be presenting the research and ideas of McCandless Research Laboratories and BrightCom Inc. on three dimensional immersive virtual environments at Telepresence World on June 4th in San Diego. Telepresence World 2007 is a meeting of top leaders in telepresence, presence and unified collaboration and will showcase the leading experts in video, audio and web conferencing solutions such as BrightCom, Inc.

About Bob McCandless
Mr. McCandless started his career shaping the vision of collaborative computing and technology assisted human interaction. In addition to his wide industry experience, Bob has founded several companies as CEO of the McCandless Group such as BrightCom, Alphalogix and McCandless Research Laboratories to further refine his concepts of the next generation of enterprise wide communication tools. Bob's vision of new ways to share information, ideas and data help drive him to create software technology that allows its enterprise customers to leverage the power of effective corporate communication and collaboration.

About BrightCom:
BrightCom specializes in creating advanced collaboration and communication products and solutions for business customers. Our products break down the walls of conference room technology connecting remote corporate users, suppliers, and customers together with easy to use, simple to deploy, cost effective solutions. We empower businesses to leverage the power of telepresence and collaboration across the enterprise.

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