About Tenveo 360-Degree Video Conferencing
Mar 22, 2018
About Tenveo 360-Degree Video Conferencing
Tenveo 360-degree video conferencing
Is your office having a round table meeting? Now a video conference webcam can capture the whole thing–everyone at it, all the way around the table, at the same time. All we need now is a good reason to use it.
Backed by one of Silicon Valley’s high priests, Andy Rubin (one of the creators of Android), newcomer Owl Labs has released its Meeting Tenveo webcam, which can capture and display all 360 degrees of a group meeting.
It is smart. It is innovative. It looks just like an owl. And it may be nothing more than a really cute toy. That’s because you can render its key feature superfluous by just rearranging the attendees at your meeting so that everyone is sitting at the same side of the table, just like everyone has been doing on video conference calls since the technology was introduced.
The Tenveo Webcam packs in all the features you could want in a 360-degree video conferencing webcam, but its warped fish-eye view of the world, potentially cluttered display, and near $800 price tag mean it is probably more luxury than necessity at the moment. Let’s look more closely at why.
The Tenveo video conference camera Delivers on the 360-Degree Video Conferencing Promise
We at VC Daily have been waiting on the Tenveo webcam’s arrival for some time now, and the final product does deliver on what it promised when we first wrote about the Tenveo video conferencing cam concept last year.
The 11-inch tall device is certainly mobile, and with simple USB setup and compatibility with common video conference apps such as Zoom, Google Hangouts, Slack Video, Skype, and Go To Meeting it is convenient. The 360-degree fisheye lens that sits atop its little owl head does indeed capture an entire room, but the smart technology that drives it is far more interesting. The Tenveo webcam features an eight-microphone array that picks up sound in every direction, and audio beam forming technology that lets the camera automatically focus on whoever is currently speaking.
