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Imagine a teleconferencing system that's so realistic, so natural, that you feel you could reach out and shake a participant's hand, even though the individual may be sitting in a room hundreds or even thousands of miles away. That's the idea behind telepresence, an emerging teleconferencing technology that's designed to not only connect people together but to make them feel like they're all collaborating together inside the same room.
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