I love the latest generation of integrated camera/speaker bars. They’ve made remote meetings much more bearable and lifelike since the onset of COVID-19. If we can thank the pandemic for anything, it has to be what NYU professor Scott Galloway calls, “10 years’ worth of innovation in three months” during the Spring of 2020....
We have the pandemic to thank for so many innovations. Who could forget groundbreaking life hacks such as virtual meetings, virtual happy hours, and virtual sewing bees? So many virtual opportunities to be virtual. The trouble is, we’re all burned out on virtual. In-person is what we’re craving now. Anything short of a face to face...
Vanco International has introduced the EVSW4K41 Evolution 4K 4x1 multi-format collaboration switcher, which was designed for seamless switching from multiple wired or wireless presenters to one display.
Miracast and Airplay allow users to cast wirelessly from BYOD computers, tablets, and mobile devices to the display. In addition to...
The ScreenBeam 1100 Plus is a small network appliance oriented around wireless presentations, video conferencing, and digital signage with no hardware dongles
I’ve been searching for the ultimate virtual meeting hardware technology stack since the beginning of the pandemic. Cameras, microphones, wireless click dongles… you name it,...
How Hybrid Flexible (HyFlex) Rooms Maximize In-Person and Remote Collaboration
Over the past three years, manufacturers have raced to keep integrators and end-users happy as remote collaboration solutions have been relied upon more and more for business and education communication. Organizations were prompted to shift to virtual work...
Vaddio IntelliSHOT Auto-Tracking Camera Promises Better Tracking of Group Videoconferences
I’ve been obsessed with video conferencing cameras ever since the beginning of the pandemic. So much of our communications now take place virtually, and the camera is becoming the lens (forgive the pun) through which we see each other.
It...
The HDL200 from Nureva is the audio solution that Zoom calls have been missing.
When it comes to videoconferencing technology, audio quality is often one of the biggest trade-offs. Most of the combined camera/speaker units that I’ve seen offer decent picture quality and fall short with “tinny” sound. They’re simple, and...
The Versa Mediabar, from ClearOne, is a professional-quality all-in-one audio and video capture device that combines the elegance and simplicity of a soundbar with the power of ClearOne’s intelligent audio capture and 4K camera technologies.
According to ClearOne Chair and CEO Zee Hakimoglu, the Versa Mediabar provides high-quality...
When the live music industry ground to a halt in early 2020, legendary rockers Styx quickly pivoted away from their planned tour to focus on direct engagement with their more than one million fans who are members of the online Styx Lounge. As the band increasingly made remote collaboration and fan outreach a daily practice, bassist and...
The COVID-19 pandemic may permanently change the way we gather and communicate through a process I now refer to as Zoomification. Any scenario where each of us sits in front of a computer or other device will probably continue along much the same way, with cloud providers like Zoom, Google, Microsoft, and others making incremental...
