Are Your People Feeling Left Out During Virtual Meetings?
Strategy, Design, Installation & Service for Audio Visual Technology Globally
Achieving True Meeting Equity
One of the key findings of a recent report published by Crestron and Reworked, “Tackling the Modern Workplace by the Numbers,” is that a new status quo has taken hold:
We are seeing workplace stability for the first time in two years. Companies have largely reached a hybrid equilibrium where, on any given day, half the employees are remote, and half are in the office.
It’s a state that’s been referred to as “hybrid permanence.” One of the challenges of this new normal is the adaptation of collaboration for both in-person and remote workers.
33% of Workers Struggles to Feel Heard During Hybrid Meetings and 25% Find it Difficult to Speak Up
Source: ClickShare Meeting Equity Report
While video conferencing has expanded remote capabilities, it has also revealed the need for enhancements to enable true collaboration: in-person participants need better ways to engage with remote participants; and conversation must flow more naturally between all participants, so no one feels like a spectator.
Example Use Case: Crestron Sightline
Scalable for any sized room, the new Crestron Sightline Experience solves these challenges with a complete, integrated ecosystem that delivers meeting equity, where resources are distributed based on the specific needs of every participant. Sightline incorporates a multi-camera, automated switching system — literally, an AI program that follows who’s speaking at a given moment – and “cuts” to that individual, as opposed to the traditional single camera panning back and forth.
Sightline technology tracks a speaker’s voice and automatically frames that individual on-screen, giving the remote worker a look that’s not dissimilar from the layout one finds when every participant is virtual.
It’s quite literally a close-up of the speakers, revealing all those critical nonverbal cues and providing the best available audio in that hybrid situation.
The other half of the equation is the viewpoint of the in-person participants when they’re interacting with remote participants. A Sightline room incorporates multiple displays, synced together, so remote participants are always in line of sight, which eliminates confusion over where to look. This helps increase engagement and decrease “screen fatigue.”
Another Solution: Yealink’s Multi-Stream People Feed
Yealink’s new generation of MVC series breaks down the barriers between meeting rooms and remote participants.
Experience the same level of collaboration as face-to-face communication, impressing your audiences with a seamless flow of interaction.
The Multi-Stream People Feed feature, which provides individual video feeds of up to four in-room active speakers while showcasing the panoramic view of the room. The feature enables everyone at the conference table to appear front and center on the screen crystal-clear.
The voice and face recognition feature allows remote and in-room participants to connect better by associating names with faces and speeches. Additionally, enjoy automatic speech-to-text transcription with speakers identified by their names.
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