TA2 is a telepresence project that uses ambient intelligence to bring families closer together
An EU-funded project, TA2 is a collaboration of researchers from several European countries aiming to create the interactive communication media that will bring together families wherever they are at any given time.
TA2, short for "together anywhere, together anytime" is an ambitious tele-presence project that integrates sophisticated video and audio communications systems with digital media, interactive devices and ambient intelligence.
In Berlin, in IFA, known as the largest consumer electronics fair in the world, TA2 was exhibited and demonstrated with two rooms, two TV sets and two tables or boards with integrated touch screens on which demonstrators could play games.
During the actual demonstration, many spectators were particularly interested and amazed at the demonstrators playing a board game together as if they were all in the same room.
According to Nikolaus Färber, head researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Germany. "People have become isolated by technology." That's why they created a technology that will bring every member of the family whenever they want to anywhere.
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