Telepresence is a sense of 'being there' in a virtual environment It is an illusion of non-mediation in which users of any technology overlook or misconstrue the technology's role in their experience a subjective perception in which even

Virtual present

1. Telepresence
Kaitlin Reilly
Prof. Lombard
Psychological Processing of Media
March 2012

2. What is telepresence?
•Telepresence is a sense of ‘being there’ in
a virtual environment
• It is an illusion of non-mediation in which
users of any technology overlook or
misconstrue the technology’s role in their
experience
•a subjective perception in which even though an
individual’s current experience is generated by
and/or filtered through human-made technology , the
individual’s perception fails to accurately
acknowledge the role of the technology in the
experience
(ISPR 2012)

3. Examples of Presence
Evoking Items
•3D films
•IMAX Experiences
•Simulator Rides (Disney World’s “Star Tours”)
•Smart Phones (FaceTime)
•Teleconferencing Systems (Skype)
•Robotics
•Body-Connected Video Games (Wii, Xbox Kinect)
•Alternate Reality Internet Sites (Second Life)
•Automated Answering Machines
•Instant Messenger Robots

4. Presence in Daily Life
iPhone’s “FaceTime”
creates sensation that you
are physically with the
person on the other line
Virtual reality
games fully immerse
the user into the
gaming experience
Virtual conferencing
through web cameras can
make it feel like
individuals meeting face
to face
Virtual pets
mimic what it
is like to have
a dog like
companion
IMAX theatres
submerse the
audience into
the films
through 3D
effects, large
screens, and
surround sound

5. Presence in the Media
Surrogates (film, 2011)
Terminator (film, 1984)
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Star Wars (film, 1973)
Persons of Interest (tv, 2011)
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (film, 2001)
Persons Unknown (tv, 2010)
Spongebob
Squarepants
(tv, 1999)

6. Reality… or Presence?
Cut a Hole in Your Torso with Two iPad 2s!
Augmented reality project
Boston, MA
Lumus see-through video glasses create
87 inch virtual screen 10 feet from viewer
Highly graphic
televisions look like
“window on the
world”

7. Work Cited
–Lombard, Matthew. "International Society for Presence Research ." Presence Defined . N.p., n.d. Web. 5
Mar 2012.
•IMAGES:
–Lombard, Matthew. "Monthly Archives." International Society for Presence Research. N.p., 2010. Web. 5
Mar 2012. <http://ispr.info/2010/07/>.
International Movie Data Base. www.imdb.com