Smarter Systems Collaboration Center

For any A/V professional, InfoComm is the ultimate field trip.  Not only do you get to get a few days out of the office (woo!), but you spend the week checking out new gadgets, mingling, and soaking in the Florida sun.

So it's no guess that we saw a few things we liked this year.  Here's a list, with some on-the-street footage!

Poly Studio X52

Poly has finally released the sequel to their Poly Studio X50 bar, which is a staple of many of our conferencing solutions, JUMPSTART ROOMS or not.

Here's two key components they improved:

• Design for visual equity
  

The term "visual equity" is a new concept in A/V.   The idea is that for every participant you have, the screen will be equally divided so no one is left out.  This has led to an innovation in conferencing called "people framing".

In earlier Poly Studio X models, framing someone was generally restricted to either group framing (where the entire group is framed at once, regardless of who is speaking), or speaker framing (where only the speaker is framed).

Both of these can be problematic for various reasons.  If you have a large group of people, it can be boring to look at, and tedious to locate the speaker.  On the inverse, if you have speaker framing, it can get disorienting to watch the camera catch up with multiple people!

Here's where people framing comes in.  Everyone gets an equal slice of the pie.  You'd think that this would only apply to participants on the other side of the screen, but think again!  This effect also works when you have multiple people in the room with the X52.  You can see a demonstration of this below!

• Camera upgrades

The camera on this one is incredible.  Never worry about missing the fine details anymore....with 20MP to spare at a 5x digital zoom, you'll always be in focus!  The camera also comes at a slick 95° HFOV to capture everyone in sight!

Poly TC10

Continuing to improve their Studio X line, the Poly TC10 is the next step in Poly's line of tabletop touch panels.

The most obvious difference with this one is that instead of being 8 inches across, it's now 10!

But there's much more to it than that.  The TC10 allows for a more customizable user experience, allowing integrators to include any additional lighting, audio, and video controls that get included with the Poly system.  

But another interesting feature with is that it can double as a room scheduler.  Mount it on the wall next to your room!  LED lights behind the display flicker green or red when the room is being used or not, and a full calendar of the room's availability displays 24/7.

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