We are using a 70 inch from DisplayTen, bundle with Zoom Video conferencing, it's much better than the skype for business, especially when we have slow internet in our office. The whiteboard and wireless sharing are great, Zoom is fantastic.
Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
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Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
#142The "board" part of Weiser's original "pads, tabs, and boards" vision [0] always made logical sense, but for some reason never realized itself. I'm a bigger fan of the tabletop form factor myself (see for example the original "surface"). It'll be interesting to see how this grows. > to boot, it's a piece of hardware that it got right even in version one Except it's not version one; see the surface and surface 2 befor…
That is an outstanding work of futurology! It gets a lot right, and the parts they get wrong are wrong for interesting and fascinating reasons.
Comes really close to forecasting the smart phone, but instead of an intensely personal device, they envision very similar devices that are shared and spread out through the environment. Surface Hub seems to have struck a nerve for the "shared environment" paradigm, wonder if there are still other opportunities in the "pads and tabs" paradigms. What could be done with "virtual post it notes", for example, whose content is always kept up to date, and placed in the context where they are most relevant?
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Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
#144We are using DisplayTen for our meeting rooms, bundle with Zoom video conferencing, which works better than skype for business when slow internet in our office. The Wireless sharing dongle is the killer app.
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#145The Microsoft Hub is fine and dandy... but it is very limiting in it's ability to integrate with any and all meeting participants. It's great if everyone all worked off Microsoft products, but they do not.
Example: I am in an office where 90+% of people work with Macs and iOS products. The integration between those two is not seamless by any make or measure. I would rather have a product that worked between the two than a single product trying to mold it's way into the entire space.
Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Careful, Surface is now a brand of various computers, PixelSense was the old Surface Table with a display where pixels included cameras, but is now used to describe the new Surface's screen. So let's summarize: * old Surface: a table. * new Surface: a brand that started out with tablets but now includes a convertible laptop, a desktop, and a conference room computer. * old PixelSense: a renamed old Surface with new f…
PixelSense is a company that Microsoft acquired a couple years ago. It's unrelated to the original "surface" technology they showcased previously (the big coffee table you are talking about), other than sharing the same name. Surface is now just the branding of their whole series of first party touch enabled devices (surface pro, surface studio, surface book, surface hub)
I think you are referring to Perceptive Pixel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptive_Pixel
Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
#147My company is using DiplayTen for our meeting rooms. They are partnered with Zoom Communications and they are able to seamlessly integrate both PC and Mac users as they join into Zoom Rooms.
Also meeting room participants can effortlessly participate using a PC/Mac dongle to share content to the boards wirelessly.
The Hub may be a shiny new Cadillac but like them, require constant professional maintenance. The DisplayTen board we use was out of the box and set up in a matter of minutes with updates done in a simple and timely matter.
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#148When I was working on www.kokonaut.com in 2012, my vision for it was a mix between Slack and Surface Hub. The closest thing I've seen was Bluescape.
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#149Microsoft is killing it in this space because current conferencing technology is flat out horrible.
Despite the fact we have hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of conferencing technology at my work, I'll regularly see twenty minutes wasted at the start of a meeting with someone bumbling around with a mix match of DisplayPort, thunderbolts, HDMIs and VGAs. Then the software headaches of having to install some sort of client software, create an account and find the person.
The icing on the cake was a sales rep from Microsoft who invited us to a conference using third party software that required Silverlight and MSIE 10, and our Windows machine was too new.
It's great something is being done in this space, but $19,999 for a problem Microsoft is largely responsible for feels like extortion.
Re: Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Careful, Surface is now a brand of various computers, PixelSense was the old Surface Table with a display where pixels included cameras, but is now used to describe the new Surface's screen. So let's summarize: * old Surface: a table. * new Surface: a brand that started out with tablets but now includes a convertible laptop, a desktop, and a conference room computer. * old PixelSense: a renamed old Surface with new f…
PixelSense is a company that Microsoft acquired a couple years ago. It's unrelated to the original "surface" technology they showcased previously (the big coffee table you are talking about), other than sharing the same name. Surface is now just the branding of their whole series of first party touch enabled devices (surface pro, surface studio, surface book, surface hub)
That was the case a few years ago, but it is no longer the case now. See:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-stud...
And compare to:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PixelSense
Two totally different things.