Tablets, video-conferencing, web based tools, and mobile robots, new technologies that can provide an "immersive" telepresence experience in distance education (double-robotics video shows some examples of telepresence - could it be used into distance learning applications?). What we could expect in the next few years?
http://www.doublerobotics.com/
Hello. The link you mention is very interesting.
I agree this approach will have a great impact in some specific situations. One of particular interest for the researchers community would be tele-presence in conferences. I'm convinced this would be a very good way to increase participation rates while maintaining reduced costs for participants, since they would not require to spend a lot of budget in travelling (sometimes is just not affordable).
By the looks of the referred product, there are emerging Business Models that can start looking for interesting applications
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