Eye to eye contact in Microsoft Teams Rooms and hybrid workspaces?
Actual or virtual eye to eye AV camera positioning?
In early videos coming from The Hive and Microsoft’s thought pieces regarding the future of hybrid meetings, this image of a camera embedded in the screen was an eye catcher.
Honestly, it wasn’t massively successful. It’s quite a large lens and, because it’s not an ALR screen (namely screens that are BLACK until projected light hits them), the image has the usual washed-out appearance we associate with white projection screens. Also, the projector is shining into the lens.
But The Hive speaks to the essences of UX design. Ideate. Prototype. Learn. Move on. Quickly! From such Microsoft pioneering work comes the Signature Meeting Rooms that are now influencing so many of the projects we’re working on in Greg Jeffreys Consulting.
It also speaks to the growing (and overdue!) realisation that room design and configuration - and critical application of AV standards - are non-negotiable prerequisites of creating higher performing hybrid spaces.
Sometimes you get small wins.
The new ‘super ultra short throw’ Epson EB-810E forms the basis of a range of 120” 16:9 and 113” 21:9 display options we’ve designed for MTRs and all meeting/teaching spaces. This can only work coupled with the DNP Supernova STW (ALR screen for UST projector) and yields 4K UHD displays at these sizes at from under £7000 (€8000) retail prices.
Oh yes, and the super-acute projection angle means we can make a small cut-out in the middle of the DNP Supernova screen and have a small camera positioned there without the projected light hitting it. So we’re waking this dormant project up again.
Hello #Huddly #Jabra #Logitech #Neat #Yealink and all you other VC camera manufacturers. Are you going to come and play with us?!
Posted: 2nd June 2023