This report reviews the perspectives of users from Europe, Middle East and Africa.
- Specifically, users from EMEA prefer face-to-face meetings to conferencing.
- 20% more consider telepresence to be higher quality than high definition.
- 50% more consider more convenient access the single most improvement to the conferencing experience.
Surprisingly, EMEA users would pay $71.92 for attending a video conference rather than drive 60 km to attend a face-to-face meeting. The rest of the world would pay 60% more. the reasons for this are discussed. EMEA promises to aggressively deploy telepresence – the high definition immersive or modular room video conferencing technology.