Magor TeleCollaboration compared to telepresence

Telepresence is a big buzzword in the evolution of video-based conferencing communications these days. But does telepresence really liberate people from the confines of technology or does it actually end up adding restrictions to how people naturally collaborate and get work done? Let’s compare.

Magor TeleCollaboration

Telepresence
  • No need for a dedicated room. You can use Magor TeleCollaboration from your office, a meeting room or right at your desk.
  • Requires a dedicated telepresence room.
  • No advance scheduling required. Allows spontaneous 1080p visual collaboration.
  • Requires advanced scheduling. May or may not offer 1080p video resolution.
  • All participants have a peer-to-peer relationship so there is no single point of control or failure.
  • Often requires use of a central “bridge” between participants, which can create a single point of control and a single point of failure.
  • New participants can be easily and spontaneously added to a conversation already in progress without a delay in the conversation.
  • Adding participants to a conversation already in progress can be difficult and may result in a delay in the conversation.
  • The participants at each endpoint have full control to customize what they see.
  • The participants at each endpoint have limited control over what they see.
  • Any participant can modify a shared document or multiple shared documents.
  • Difficult and time consuming to allow more than one person to modify a single shared document.
  • White boards, blackboards, flip charts, books are easily incorporated.
  • Often very difficult to incorporate content that’s not on a PC.
  • Collaboration across PC, Mac and Solaris platforms is supported.
  • Collaboration across PC, Mac and Solaris platforms is typically not supported in Web collaboration solutions.