This video was just posted to Microsoft.com.
It demonstrates the Microsoft Roundtable – a 360 degree view camera that works with both Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 & Microsoft Live Meeting 2007 to assist people in collaborating across the Internet.
The Microsoft Roundtable is a PATENTED software-integrated camera device designed provide both audio & video broadcasting through Windows-based PCs using Microsoft Real-time communications technologies that is both highly intuitive to use for executives & end-users alike, as well as economical & affordable.
Seriously. The Roundtable’s designed so that even the most technically inept individual can get it started. Power, USB-to-PC, on-switch. That’s it. The software automatically recognizes it and away you go. The camera provides two windows to software applications: One of the panoramic view, and one of the "person currently speaking" leveraging the directional microphone in Roundtable.
Oh. And it’s inexpensive too. Ask your account executive. And as for the software?
Office Communications Server 2007 offers corporations the opportunity to host real time communications services within their IT infrastructure that provides:
- "Peer-to-peer"-like Instant Messaging/Chat
(Note that text communications is not peer-to-peer in that it is centralized for conversation archival purposes) - Whiteboarding/Application Sharing/File Sharing
- Multi-point audio/video conferencing
- VOIP Telephony Integration & Call Management
- Interoperability with 3rd party IM systems (AOL, MSN, Yahoo)
- Secure federation with OCS implementations at other companies
- Windows Mobile PDA/Smartphone support
- Web-based client support (https:)
- Corporate client connectivity without VPN usage (RPC over HTTPS)
- Text/Audio conversation recording & archival
- Voice-to-Text & Text-to-Voice Integration
- …and much more!
Office Live Meeting 2007 offers corporations the ability to leverage a hosted service to provide similar services over port 443 between a group of presenters, that may or may not be geographically separated) and up to thousands of meeting attendees that may participate in the conversation through numerous audio/video/data collaborative features.
- Presentation & document downloading & distribution with backend antivirus support
- Voice & video broadcasting
- Panoramic view of circular meeting rooms
- Whiteboard markup
- Powerpoint broadcasting with animations
- Surveys & statistics
- Text-based Q&A with the presenter
- Application/Whiteboard sharing
- Event recording – either locally on the presenter’s PC or on Microsoft’s datacenter for on-demand access by attendees
- … and much more!
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