Did we ever come up with a solution for the virtual-physical meeting audio situation?
What I mean is, During a physical committee meeting, it’s difficult to convey the audio from those who are in the physical meeting to those whom are virtually attending. I know I find it difficult to repeat the information that the physical members are trying to communicate to those who are virtually attending.
Ive tied several different omnidirectional microphone with not very good results.
Would someone like this be to crazy to use? Have multiple microphones around that someone can step up to, to speak. I admit i know jack$hit about this sorta stuff as its not my wheelhouse.
The hard part about meetings is that it’s not just the microphones, but also allowing those in the room to hear those on the phone. There’s also needing to mix the microphones without feeding the speaker output back into the online meeting.
It works fairly well and has multiple input methods into a laptop. I’ve verified it works with our chromebooks too.
If you’d like to try it for the machine shop meeting I’d be happy to drop it off to you some night. Might even keep it with the streaming cart. I was planning to donate it to the space if it worked and maybe get a second one to daisy-chain and cover a larger area.
That’s interesting, I’d like to try it. I do not want folks to feel left out or they don’t have a voice. The audio out, I just would normally hook my laptop to the overhead with the speakers. Thankfully the feedback has been bad.
I hate to recommend Cisco stuff because of price, but Fossil had the best Cisco Conference phones and you could get one of those to dial in to the meeting. They had multiple mics that were on tethers and a good volume speaker.
@yashsedai Are Cisco IP phones something the Infra folks want to play with?
Are conference phones able to cope with a 400sq ft. rooom? They work well when everyone is sitting at a table.
Could DMS equip a room to reliably host ten physical people socially distanced plus the remote attendants, and for how much.
We had one room at Fossil that seated 30 or so 15/side of a table (4 tables long), I’d assume it would work well in our normal room for meetings. Interactive might be a bit too big for it, but I’m not as sure.