Any mention of whiteboard + vr or alternative? Infinite whiteboard in VR is the killer app that would make me dust off my Oculus go again.
Ian from Microsoft Whiteboard here. Would <3 to know how you'd want to use Whiteboard in VR...tell me more?
Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows
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Re: Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows
#62Putting interactive analytics (dashboards) on this thing would be really cool for meetings.
Ian from Microsoft Whiteboard here. Very curious to learn more. Any particular use cases / dashboards that immediately come to mind?
Re: Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I share your frustration. In my team, I estimate the cost of these boards are equivalent to the cost of about 3 face-to-face meetings of my team. I think there's also a productivity / opportunity cost from only being able to share a whiteboard (real or virtual) during these occasional f2f meetings. So it drives me a little nuts that management doesn't invest in this more, and treat team communications in general as a…
Ian from Microsoft Whiteboard here. I've heard first-hand stories from some early Whiteboard Preview folks at enterprises that used our product to cut down on travel & accommodation expenses, while maintaining the same level of fidelity/interaction that f2f meetings gave them, when doing things like technical sales meetings. We're seeing many enterprises starting to see the benefits & the economics just simply make s…
Thanks for the data point.
One of the challenges at my workplace is that these devices are currently so large and expensive that it's only practical to install them in some of our meeting rooms. But with heavy competition for meeting rooms, depending on these boards for routine meetings (e.g. daily standups) gets dicey.
So for us, they might become practical only when the price comes down enough for them to be ubiquitous, readily available, and (hopefully) on mobile stands.
In the meantime, we're looking into alternatives involving devices small enough that every developer can have them on his/her desktop, and put them away when not in use.
Microsoft seems to have some nice offerings in both form factors, but as a mixed Mac/Windows shop, MS-only solutions won't work. We need something that can be entirely hosted behind our firewall and has good clients for Mac, Windows, and (ideally) Linux.
Re: Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows
#64Putting interactive analytics (dashboards) on this thing would be really cool for meetings.
Ian from Microsoft Whiteboard here. Very curious to learn more. Any particular use cases / dashboards that immediately come to mind?
Hi Ian,
I'm not sure to what degree PowerBI is touch-screen friendly, but I dealt a lot with Qlik Sense (another BI / dashboarding platform) and it's quite touch-screen friendly -- filtering, selections, drilling down, etc. because its UI was designed for tablets.
What I was missing sometimes is the ability to easily put a dashboard on a large screen (like the Whiteboard) during a meeting in order to answer questions that arise during meetings -- what the last week looks like, what region had best sales, what products did they sell most of all, etc. Because of the visual UI, data can be queried and explored right from a dashboard.
Yes, a dashboard could be just screen-shared from a laptop, but that would be a one-man show. Sharing it on the Whiteboard would let anyone near the screen to support their points by bringing up relevant analytics.