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Published on: 9/29/2008
Last Visited: 9/29/2008
When Jerry Monroe, a Tandberg executive based in New York, dialed in, his life-sized image appeared in the center of three 50-inch high-definition monitors arranged side by side.Onscreen, Monroe wheeled his chair left and right, moving from screen to screen while he talked to show how his voice traveled to different speakers that followed his image, lending a sense of movement.
Monroe, who could see the audience, said he enjoyed their looks of skepticism mixed in with oh-wows.
"Yes," he joked, "you can talk over each other and scream at each other just as you do in your face-to-face meetings."The audience tittered.