Microsoft is releasing a video with the idea of ​​a new “meeting room of the future”

A Microsoft Back in detail a Predicting the future And created a video demonstrating the company’s idea of ​​how Meetings in the future. Introduces the concept of video Team rooms, Spatial audio for video conferencing showing real meeting members and locations for professional meetings with large screens.

The idea is that after a safe return to COVID-19 infection and face-to-face operations, meeting rooms Bring people together They are far from real. This way, there will be specially designed spaces Mixed collaboration Among workers operating in the face-to-face regime and others in the housing office.

Displaying screens Microsoft Allow people to see themselves inside Natural size – Replace a small rectangle in the corner of the system.

These include the existing elements in the new rooms Microphones on the ceiling, In addition to making the technology less functional but still functional Smart camera Those who speak at this time are integrated into the room to catch and focus on them.

Oh Spatial audio – or Spatial Audio -, is in the program, providing a complete experience for meetings. It works to simulate p location fire location for different audio sources.

In the case of the meeting room, it will be used with the function of allowing participants in a physical fire place Identification Intermediaries in video conferencing From the audio location.

Previously, the Redmond company had good challenges. In 2018, in Microsoft Built Developer Conference, An annual event aimed at developers, hosted by the company a Another meeting room concept of the future.

At the time, there was a place with a plan Smart microphones Identifies who is speaking and can transcribe that person’s speech regardless of language. In March 2021, the company announced the product Available soon.

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Source: XDA-Developers, Of Neo