HaiVision Appoints Mark Fletcher Vice President US Sales

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Telepresence and Holography / Holograms - November 2008

Editor’s viewpoint on their differences, likenesses and future...

We all just recently viewed an historic CNN holographic interview on an historic Election Night. CNN stated this type of imaging has never been done before on National TV and I believe that. I haven’t seen anything like it. The live interview caught me by surprise and sure had the “wow” factor attached to it didn’t it? Here’s a link to the actual interview.

CNN Hologram Video

The question now has to be asked. Is it Telepresence?

I’m no expert on the subject but I’m going to throw my hat into the ring, go out on a limb and say yes, I believe it is. Although I know many video conferencing purists are rolling their eyes and grabbing their guns right about now with my statement.

While I do know that Telepresence still hasn’t been universally defined (Houston, we have a problem), here’s how I see it…. Broken down to its simplest form - “tele” (through electronic means) and “presence” (present). This is how I’m justifying my opinion by lumping holography and Telepresence together. Just as Telepresence is surely an offshoot of video conferencing, holographic imaging (like we viewed on CNN) surely has to be considered an offshoot of Telepresence. The interviewer was “telepresent” from Chicago and beamed into the CNN Election Headquarters. She was most assuredly - “telepresent”. There was negligible latency, the imaging was fantastic and both interviewers were rehearsed on what they would say. I’ve just recently read that CNN actually “downgraded” the experience to make it “movie” quality and not as good as it could have been. Maybe they thought us mere mortals would be shocked if they showed their complete hand. I have a feeling it was so big to them, they didn’t want it to get upstaged by the historic election. I’m willing to bet we’ll see the “true” power of this technology in the upcoming weeks and months when they can put the pedal to the medal and show it off without having it sidetracked.

What an amazing time for this technology (all differences and opinions aside). Telepresence Doctors, nurses, teachers, schools and healthcare (healthpresence) will benefit from the recent gains in this state-of-the-art industry whether holograms, Telepresence or holography. Airlines also have to see the threat to a portion of their business travel. Hell, who wants go through security and fly to Miami for a two-hour conference when you can look them in the eye via Telepresence?

Beam me up Scotty! Simply amazing…!

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Your Editor and Administrator - L II
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(PRWEB) June 20, 2007 -- HaiVision Systems Inc. (Montreal, Canada) today announces the appointment of Mark Fletcher as Vice President of US Sales. Mark now leads HaiVision's U.S. team focused on expanding our channel partnerships, enabling them to provide solutions based on HaiVision's industry leading network video technology.

HaiVision is growing dramatically having released multiple levels of products providing H.264 video compression. Most recently, HaiVision introduced its MAKO-HD supporting high definition up to 1080p with latency lower than 120 milliseconds. HaiVision's technology is used extensively in interactive high quality communications systems such as telepresence.

Mr. Fletcher is a senior sales executive with a proven track record of growing revenue, building strategic alliances, and opening new markets. "We are excited to have Mark on our team," explains Mirko Wicha, HaiVision's CEO. "He brings leadership, industry experience, and market insights that are helping HaiVision develop long term channel relationships."

Mr. Fletcher has held many senior sales positions with a number of high profile technology companies including most recently as VP and General Manager of Automatic Systems, a Belgium based manufacturer of access control systems for the security market, Samsys Technologies, an RFID reader manufacturer, TANDBERG a world leader in visual communications, and British Telecom one of the largest telecom companies in the world.

Come see HaiVision's launch of Invitation in booth 4846 and Codian in Booth 4646 at InfoComm in Anaheim, June 19-21.

About HaiVision Systems Inc.
HaiVision Systems Inc. is a private company dedicated to improving the way people live and work through the use of advanced network video technology. HaiVision's interactive products are used in the foremost telepresence suites, boardrooms, and continuous presence distance education systems worldwide. They are used as well in the medical field supporting information and service delivery within hospital campuses and across nations. HaiVision's streaming products are also used extensively for video backhaul and distribution in broadcast and IPTV applications. Please have a look at the product information, case studies, videos, and file samples available in the file download area of our web site.

For further information, please contact:

Ceicy Tsui                               
HaiVision Systems Inc.                       
Tel: (514) 334-5445, ext. 251                            
Email: ctsui @ haivision.com                    
Web: www.haivision.com                   

Hellene Garcia   
Codian
Tel: (408) 938-2303
Email: Hellene @ codian.com
Web: www.codian.com

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