Video Conferencing with Live Meeting

Roundtable is a 360 degree webcam that’s designed to be used with Live Meeting. In a nutshell, the Roundtable camera can simultaneously film anyone sitting around a table (hence the name), as well as record their sound. When one person speaks, the camera automatically shows that person’s face in the main window of a Live Meeting.

During a video conference using Roundtable, all participants can be seen simultaneously on the bottom of the console.

The advantages of such as system include:

• Use a single license of Live Meeting to record a real-life meeting
• Allow off-site personnel to link into the meeting
• Show the faces of people who are attending the video conference remotely

Microsoft have released an amusing advert to demonstrate the product, and seeing Roundtable in action is a far better way to understand how it works! In this example, two real-life offices are linked by a single license of Live Meeting using two Roundtable cameras, laptops and projectors.