Telepresence System

CHALLENGE

Telepresence System

$1 MILLION (Prize amount to be confirmed. Announcement expected for next year)

Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance of being present, or to have an effect, via telerobotics, at a place other than their true location.

Telepresence requires that the users’ senses be provided with such stimuli as to give the feeling of being in that other location. Additionally, users may be given the ability to affect the remote location. In this case, the user’s position, movements, actions, voice, etc. may be sensed, transmitted and duplicated in the remote location to bring about this effect.

Therefore information may be traveling in both directions between the user and the remote location. A popular application is found in telepresence videoconferencing, the highest possible level of videotelephony. Telepresence via video deploys greater technical sophistication and improved fidelity of both sight and sound than in traditional videoconferencing. Technical advancements in mobile collaboration have also extended the capabilities of ideoconferencing beyond the boardroom for use with hand-held mobile devices, enabling collaboration independent of location.

Telepresence robots can be also considered for social interactions during pandemic crisis such as COVID-19.

Another telepresence possibility is through avatars.

Telepresence System

The solution can include:

This competition calls for strategies, Technologies, software, apps that can promote telepresence to become a useful daily technology that would expand our horizons while breaking social and political barriers while changing our lifestyles.

Proposal:

This is a two phase competition:

  • Phase 1: Written proposals, (max 40 pages incuding images) about the technologies and systems that would be utilized will select the five finalist that would proceed to phase 2.
  • Phase 2: To realize the required experiment under controlled conditions.