Force-feedback within telepresence

A computer-implemented method that facilitates generating a force feedback to a participant within a telepresence session in order to replicate a physical interaction with an object, comprising:

• hosting a telepresence session by a communication framework in which two physical users can communicate (702);
• detecting a trigger within the telepresence session, wherein the trigger is related to a physical interaction with an object associated with the telepresence session (704);
• identifying a device with an output that is capable of physically communicating the physical interaction to at least one participant within the telepresence session (706);
• and
• employing a force feedback based upon the trigger via the identified device (708).

A computer-implemented system that facilitates generating a force feedback to a participant within a telepresence session in order to replicate a physical interaction with an object, comprising:

• means for initiating a telepresence session within a communication framework that includes one or more virtually represented users that communicate therein (104, 506, 702);
• means for monitoring the telepresence session in real time to identify a participant interaction with an object, wherein the object is at least one of a real world physical object or a virtually represented object within the telepresence session (106, 704);
• means for implementing a force feedback to at least one participant within the telepresence session based upon the identified participant interaction with the object, wherein the force feedback is employed via a device associated with at least one participant (102, 202, 402, 708);
• means for identifying an intensity level of the interaction to which such intensity level is translated in the force feedback via the device (102, 106);
• means for evaluating two or more devices in order to identify at least one device to communicate the force feedback via an output associated with at least one device, wherein the evaluation is of a characteristic related to at least one of the two or more devices, the interaction, or the force feedback (102, 106, 706, 708);
• means for combining forces when two or more virtually represented users apply a force at the same time to a shared object that has physical resistance;
• and
• means for at least one virtually represented user to chose to apply a force feedback to a subset of virtually represented users during the telepresence session.