Microsoft RoundTable
Microsoft RoundTable was a videoconferencing device with a
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 or Microsoft Office Live Meeting. RoundTable provided remote meeting participants with panoramic video
of everyone sitting around the conference table. In addition, RoundTable contained active speaker detection technology that provides high-resolution video of the active speaker in a meeting, and tracked the flow of conversation in real time, switching between different meeting participants as they speak.
RoundTable was a plug-and-play USB device that also functioned as a standard PSTN speakerphone.
Core technology used in RoundTable was invented and originally developed by Ross Cutler and other researchers at Microsoft Research. Ross Cutler and Senthil Velayutham founded the RoundTable product group as part of the Microsoft Greenhouse and led by GM Jeff Finan to commercialize the technology. The product launched in 2007. It used the Windows CE operating system on the main processor and other operating systems on the supporting DSP chipsets.
In 2009 the Roundtable device was licensed to
360-degree camera when plugged in to a PC running the Skype for Business
client, but also can make audio VoIP calls when not plugged in to a PC.
References
- ^ "Microsoft RoundTable". www.microsoft.com. Archived from the original on 15 March 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
External links
- Microsoft RoundTable – Official RoundTable product page on Microsoft website (Now leads to Microsoft Lync)
- Microsoft RoundTable product datasheet – On Microsoft website
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