This is pretty cool.
Remotely addressing the World Economic Forum in London yesterday, Ray Kurzweil said that in five to seven years, it will be "routine and ubiquitous to meet in full-immersion, totally realistic visual-auditory virtual-reality environments for get-togethers ranging from business meetings such as this to more intimate encounters."
As an early example of this, Kurzweil gave a keynote speech in the "Look into the Future" session before the London audience of chief strategy and business development heads from leading IT and telecommunications technology companies via a Teleportec system in his office near Boston.
Teleportec allows a speaker to appear live and life-sized within an apparent 3-D environment in a remote location and achieve eye-to-eye contact with participants. This was the first time a keynote speaker has addressed a World Economic Forum meeting remotely.
I recently said that futurists never like to go shorter than about a 10-year horizon when making predictions. Kurzweil is an obvious exception.
Posted by Phil at September 25, 2003 12:10 PM | TrackBack