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IT’S a rather clever piece of kit. A circular box 3 metres high that you can put in a public street, a conference room – or anywhere really. Walk round it and it provides a giant, 360-degree window onto another world. And that can be any other world where another box is installed. Pick up a microphone and you can see and talk to someone holding a microphone in front of that other machine. And they can see and talk to you. Beam me up? There’s no need. You are already there.

The Austrian manufacturer Tholos Systems is initially promoting this…

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