[cisco-voip] Surface Board

[Heim, Dennis]

Maybe I am crazy/spoiled, but I refuse to go back to single screen telepresence. 1 screen for remote video, and 1 screen for content share.

The wide field of view FOV) on the Sparkboard camera is what makes it seem more real like. I think it is an interesting product, and it will get there eventually. I’d love to see them come up with a way to integrate multiple Sparkboards together, to get to a dual screen solution.

I am wondering how much the Sparkboard weighs. I have hung a Smartboard Kapp IQ  65” and that weights 140lbs, and that was a treat to hang.

I will also say this, wireless content sharing you can say all you want, but I am going to plug in the cable every time until you can deliver 30FPS over wireless.

While I am providing input, Cisco should integrate a 4K to 1080P scaler into the codec’s. More and more people go and buy laptops with 4K screens, only to discover how much it is not cool when it has to scale that down to 1080P for content sharing.

From: Randall (Randy) Raitz [mailto:randy.raitz at readytalk.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 2:10 PM
To: 'Anthony Holloway' <avholloway+cisco-voip at gmail.com>; Heim, Dennis <Dennis.Heim at wwt.com>; Matt Slaga (Americas) <matt.slaga at dimensiondata.com>; Brian Meade <bmeade90 at vt.edu>; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] Surface Board

Coming from an organization that competes directly against the likes of Cisco and Microsoft collaboration suites, the Spark Board is very appealing to me in terms of functionality and capabilities and my understanding is the price point is far more reasonable than the Microsoft Hub solution.

Our org adopted Slack pretty early on, so Spark has some room to improve in terms of UI, but the idea of your notes and communication stream existing into perpetuity without a break in continuity is going to be pretty valuable in the enterprise for business users, IMO.

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Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 12:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Surface Board

"Everyone wants to say their touch panel is special and is going to change the world."

In addition to your statement, I also dislike how companies will manufacture demand out of thin air.

The whole Spark Board event was cringe worthy in my opinion; with their over-the-top showmanship, and pretend first to market smugness.


On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:08 AM Heim, Dennis <Dennis.Heim at wwt.com<mailto:Dennis.Heim at wwt.com>> wrote:
Everyone wants to say their touch panel is special and is going to change the world. The fact is touch is quickly becoming a commodity. It is all about the application that you put on top of it. I am not sure on the Surface Hub and Spark Board, but I doubt the OEM is actually manufacturing the touch panel itself.  We do know that the Spark board is leveraging a computer from Nvidia providing the compute and GPU capabilities.

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Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 10:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Surface Board

Nice Freudian slip 😊

Seems it is based on the existing Surface Hub.

From: cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Brian Meade
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 7:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Surface Board



Correction, Spark Board!

Thanks Charles!
On Jan 24, 2017 5:51 PM, "Brian Meade" <bmeade90 at vt.edu<mailto:bmeade90 at vt.edu>> wrote:
Looks like this thing is finally out- https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collaboration-endpoints/spark-board/index.html

Definitely looks like a game-changer in this space assuming you can get everyone using Spark.


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