[cisco-voip] Surface Board

[Brian Meade]

>From what I've heard, the Spark Board is supposed to supplement a
Telepresence room for the most part.  So the idea is to still have a codec
with 1/2/3 screens and then use this for the wallboard features.  Using it
as an actual Telepresence endpoint seems to be just for smaller rooms.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Heim, Dennis <Dennis.Heim at wwt.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> *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
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> 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.
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> 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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> *From:* cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> <cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net>] *On Behalf Of *Anthony Holloway
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 25, 2017 12:05 PM
> *To:* 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
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> "Everyone wants to say their touch panel is special and is going to change
> the world."
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> In addition to your statement, I also dislike how companies will
> manufacture demand out of thin air.
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> The whole Spark Board event was cringe worthy in my opinion; with their
> over-the-top showmanship, and pretend first to market smugness.
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> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:08 AM Heim, Dennis <Dennis.Heim at wwt.com> wrote:
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> 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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> *From:* cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] *On Behalf
> Of *Matt Slaga (Americas)
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 25, 2017 10:44 AM
> *To:* Brian Meade <bmeade90 at vt.edu>; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
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> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Surface Board
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> Nice Freudian slip 😊
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> Seems it is based on the existing Surface Hub.
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> *From:* cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> <cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net>] *On Behalf Of *Brian Meade
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 24, 2017 7:00 PM
> *To:* cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Surface Board
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> Correction, Spark Board!
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> Thanks Charles!
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> On Jan 24, 2017 5:51 PM, "Brian Meade" <bmeade90 at vt.edu> wrote:
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> Looks like this thing is finally out- https://www.cisco.com/c/
> en/us/products/collaboration-endpoints/spark-board/index.html
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> Definitely looks like a game-changer in this space assuming you can get
> everyone using Spark.
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> itevomcid
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