Augmented Collaboration: Cisco Spring Roll

Some of this discovered rather late, but Cisco provides new a prototype of collaboration features for its Telepresence brand.  Called Spring Roll.  Eweek discusses.  And a demonstration.  Collaborative and interactive sharing of data is a particular interest in the enterprise.  A curved screen is featured, but that is not enough.

You need to provide focus on the task at hand, and the best focus today is data.   See in particular work done with Business Sphere. Telepresence does not appear to be addressing this strongly, but should.  It deals with the display aspects and not interaction with the data.   Send me more if you have more about possibilities regarding collaborative data in Telepresence, or elsewhere.

See also in BizJournals.  And more on the prototype.