Methods and systems for a natural and realistic telepresence experience

An apparatus for providing enhanced telepresence experiences, the apparatus comprising:

• an integrated display panel having uniformly interleaved display pixels and camera pixels;
• a network device enabled to receive first image data from a computing device that is external to the apparatus and transmit second image data generated by the integrated display panel, by the camera pixels, to the computing device that is external to the apparatus;
• and
• a processor device that is enabled to display images encoded in the received first image data on the display device via the display pixels.

One or more non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer-useable instructions that, when executed by one or more computing devices, causes the one or more computing devices to perform operations for providing an enhanced telepresence, the operations comprising:

• generating first image data via an integrated display panel having uniformly interleaved display pixels and camera pixels;
• receiving second image data at the integrated display panel, wherein the second image data is encoded to include position data;
• and
• displaying the second image data via the display pixels of the integrated display panel.