It’s one thing having telepresence making it seem that the people you’re in a meeting with are sitting opposite you but what Cisco CEO John Chambers demonstrated on stage is rather creepy. Take a look at this video of Chambers on stage speaking with a life-size ‘hologram’ of Marthin De Beer, head of Cisco’s emerging technologies unit as they both stood ‘face-to-face’.
Jim Duffy has been covering technology for over 28 years, 23 at Network World. He covers enterprise networking infrastructure, including routers and switches. He also writes The Cisco Connection blog and can be reached on Twitter @Jim_Duffy and at jduffy@nww.com.Google+