What is Hybrid Teams
Meeting?
Hybrid meetings are
meetings that feature at least one group of in-person/face-to-face attendees
connecting virtually with other meeting attendees. The hybrid meeting involves
a mixture of in-person and remote attendees for collaboration using Teams/Zoom
UC platforms.
What are the challenges
in the Hybrid meetings?
Companies are embracing
change and updating their policies to allow employees to choose their workplace,
either completely remote, coming to the office every day, or hybrid. Lots of people
really like a hybrid meeting – 64% of professionals report that hybrid video
calls are their preferred meeting style https://owllabs.com/state-of-remote-work/2021
. The remote participants often experience when interrupting the speaker, audio
echo, Video, distortion and not being able to hear everyone in the room. To
make the most of hybrid meetings, you may need to make some upgrades to your
meeting spaces and the way you manage them. The modern meeting room will rely
on technology more than a traditional meeting space. Sound, video, and
connectivity are all important.
In terms of sound,
ceiling- or desk-mounted microphones that aren’t sensitive to background noise,
and that can distinguish who is speaking, will ensure remote attendees don’t
miss out on the conversation.
For remote attendees, a
laptop will typically be their window into the meeting room. In-person
attendees will either use a tabletop screen that combines video and audio, or a
central video conference screen. Each person in the meeting should feel like
they have an equal opportunity to engage in the discussion and contribute their
ideas. Your technology will need to accommodate screen sharing so that every
attendee can see the meeting content and contribute to a virtual whiteboard or
equivalent.
How to improve the Hybrid
meeting experience in Teams?
Microsoft made lots of
improvements in Teams to improve the Hybrid meeting experience that includes,
- Front
Row feature for meeting rooms in-person & remote participants.
- Raise
Hands with orders that give priority.
- Chat
bubbles to show the active chat conversation.
- Conference
Room Video unique auto framing technology ( Speaker/Grid View or Symmetry).
Improvements in the Video Conference Room devices
Logitech Grid View :-
The hybrid workplace presents unique challenges, with its
mix of in-person and at-home meeting participants. For remote workers, it can
be difficult to see all the in-room participants when multiple people are
squeezed into a single video stream. This makes it harder to see key
communication signals like facial expressions that are crucial for effective
collaboration. In-person meeting participants are also not represented on
screen equitably.
It’s more important than ever to bridge the gap between
physical and digital spaces and create an equitable collaboration experience
for everyone. Logitech recently released CollabOS 1.8.290 to push the boundaries of hybrid meetings with the introduction of Grid
View to the RightSight 2 suite of features for Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini.
Grid View uses AI to intelligently frame in-room meeting participants. It
gives everyone more equitable representation in the meeting by detecting faces
and zooming in on each person to give them their own frame. This allows each
person in the room to be better seen by their remote colleagues.
How to Enable
Logitech Grid View:-
Neat Symmetry: -
Neat Symmetry is Neat’s unique auto-framing technology.
Symmetry allows people in a Neat room to be shown in their own dynamic video
frame. This improves the conference experience for other participants in the
meeting by allowing people in the Neat room to be seen more easily.
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