I’m keeping track of a few things coming out there in telepresence and remote collaboration — it’s a pet interest of mine. Starting this log so I don’t forget what I find:

• Perch: iPad-to-iPad portal that turns on when a face looks into the iPad.
• Sococo: Multi-virtual-room parallel reality with lots of bells and whistles.
• Sqwiggle: Simultaneous video-portals making it easy to interrupt each other.

I’m more than aware that face-to-face is *way* better than any of these solutions. That said, it seems like in certain situations we should be able to imagine a better future than all being in the same room together “studio style” given that we’re in this strange global interconnected world and all ... at least that’s what I read on the Internet. -JM

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