What size should the display and table be in Microsoft’s new Signature Meeting Rooms?
It’s actually quite a complex algorithm. Read on.
The algorithm for designing the screen, the table - and their relative positions - comprises a complex set of interlocking formulae which, in turn, have to be factored by room constraints.
The Front Row display aspect ratio is easy - it’s 21:9. Microsoft has fixed on this, together with the use of ALR laser projection to deliver this step change upwards needed in display size.
The factors that have to be processed - and prioritised - largely come from AVIXA’s DISCAS standard, whose task group I led. But here, we have to use ALL the parameters to get the right result: closest viewer metric; farthest viewer metric; minimum horizontal viewing angles; closest viewer restriction metric - as well as size and resolution.
Room limits, such as ceiling height, are actually useful as they provide one possible datum or stepping stone, from which the formulae can be worked through.
But the quick answer for display size is at or around 150” (3.5m x 1.5m [138” x 59”]). This is the display we co-launched with Epson at ISE, as shown below.
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Please download our MTR Displays Quick Guide to learn all you need to know about displays for Microsoft Teams Meeting Rooms - whether 16:9 or 21:9.
Posted: 28th March 2023