welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Logitech for business bcc950
conference cam now it comes in a very plain brown box because this is not all
about the uh you know the Fancy Pants packaging that a that a retail oriented
skew would would be focused on but this is all about the functionality enabled
by this device and some of the really cool soft applications that it can be
integrated with so they say right on the package that it's optimized for
Microsoft link Microsoft link is more
than just sort of a regular consumer chat client it is a like an Enterprise
grade chat client so it allows you to use things like instant messaging so
this we're used to things like just sort of personto person messaging this we're
used to conference video messaging this we're used to but it also integrates
with entire room video conference systems all the way down to the webcam
built into your notebook it also has a lot of collaborative sharing stuff so it's integrated with things like one
note so you can collaborate on that as you go while you're giving presentations
in Microsoft link you can um you know
play a PowerPoint with sound and it'll work and so it works with I think it's I
think link does up to 720p but this particular webcam is 1080p so if you
wanted to use it with a different client then that would be fine due to the
recent acquisition of Skype uh Microsoft link is also fully integrated with that
so there's a lot of really really neat stuff you can do but what is the actual
usage case for something like this and why is video collaboration so important
I guess are the real questions that you may or may not be asking yourself so as
companies I don't know Outsource to different places or as they you know
spread out and have larger campuses as they grow you need to still find ways to
collaborate that don't involve getting in a plane and traveling somewhere cuz
it's extremely expensive and very inefficient the amount of time that gets
wasted sitting on planes is absolutely ridiculous so it's not that easy to take
something like a notebook which has you
know a very narrow angle lens on its webcam and it's usually not the highest
quality thing in the world although I'm not specifically picking on this notebook it was just the nearest one
sitting here so crowding people around it to give a presentation or whatever
else isn't isn't necessarily practical so this aims to bridge the gap between
something like a full room conference system and something like the the cheesy
webcam that's built into your notebook so I'm just going to show you guys how
it assembles and why it comes with a remote I think the remote is actually
one of the coolest things about it so we go ahead there's a little stick that
goes right here oh yeah it has a fully built-in speaker phone so that's that's
neat as well because it's sort of a one piece thing that fits in the middle of a
conference room and then you don't actually have to have anything else
sitting there I mean it looks sort of Space Age and cool and then um
like the conference room at the at a place where I used to work there's like
a speaker phone and then there's like sort of a random notebook there and then
there's uh like another device and then and we're not even set up for for video
conferencing yet so this guy right here replaces all of that stuff and then you
can even use you don't have to use Link cuz it's just a standard webcam it uses
h264 encoding for video so it'll work
just you can use it with anything whether it's FaceTime uh works with
Apple and Windows whether it's uh Skype itself whether it is something more
advanced like Microsoft link or Cisco's sharing software uh let's go ahead and
plug it in just for LOLs okay so let's do a quick product tour here there's
volume up and down mute hang up uh start call that's for the speaker phone
functionality here's zoom in zoom out as well as rotational functionality and
then what you'll notice here is on the remote all that is built in as well so
you can answer and turn terminate calls zoom in zoom out move it around control
volume and mute things so the remote is sort of the magical part because being
able to move the camera from one person
to another or from one angle to another allows you to basically be sitting in
front of it going okay you know blah blah blah blah blah blah blah but then
I've also got this thing on the wall over there that I'd like you to look at
so go ahead and look at that zoom in you got your computer sitting next to you
anyway so you're monitoring what they can see cuz pretty much any that client
ever supports that and that's the
scenario so basically it's a highquality webcam that's mounted to an ARM that
turns around goes up and down Zooms in and out and has an integrated
highquality speaker phone I think that if you don't see the application of this
then you're probably not one of the people who could benefit from it but
something like this can be easily deployed and something like uh I mean
you know smaller organizations don't necessarily have eight different
full-size conference rooms with full video conference buil-in you know
$500,000 thing so this allows you to take any small little office put a desk
in it put you know a couple wiring Jacks
into it and turn it into a video conference room because you just put
like a whiteboard on the wall you have one of these on the desk you have like
sort of three or four people sitting around it and it's usable that way so I
hope that pretty much covers everything you'd like to know about it there's also a headphone jack just in case you wanted
to use that the whole thing plugs in via USB so there's nothing sort of
unexpected there and and uh Slick's sort
of telling me something oh it looks like you don't have to use the stick maybe
that's what he's telling me so if you don't want the height adjust and you're
just going to use it on your desk and you just want something that's sort of a fully integrated speakerphone webcam
thing then that's an option as well I didn't even I didn't even notice that oh
okay it still moves side to side oh oh it probably yeah it probably still moves
up and down in side to side that's very cool well there you go don't forget to
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