Microsoft Roundtable: a cool way to collaborate by video

Have RoundTable will travel!

Steve Lamb's Blog — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:10:34 GMT

I'm looking forward to tomorrow's (12th June 2008) DesignIT 2008 Roundtable discussion. Neville Hobson's

re: Microsoft Roundtable: a cool way to collaborate by video

John C. Kirk — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:59:37 GMT

I think it looks good for the remote person (or people) who can see everyone sitting around the RoundTable device. But how do the people on site see the people who aren't there? If they all need to crowd around the same laptop, it defeats the purpose of a 360 degree panorama! Alternately, if you have the remote image on a projector screen, surely the RoundTable cameras will be pointing at people's chins (as they look upwards)?

re: Microsoft Roundtable: a cool way to collaborate by video

Steve Lamb — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:41:41 GMT

John> If you want to include images of those outside the room (joining via their own webcam) then as you suggest a good way is to project the output from LiveMeeting/Roundtable.

And YES people in the room would be looking to and fro.

The ideal way is to have a fancy room setup whereby people are only sat on one side of the table and have a wall of screens along the opposite side so that you are looking eye to eye with those outside the room.

Whatever you do - however simple - roundtable makes it much easier and effective to see the body language of everyone in the meeting.

DesignIT roundtable discussion/debate: Is blogging art?

Steve Lamb's Blog — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:37:10 GMT

As I mentioned in my earlier post DesignIT: a mashup of charity, art and technology we held a debate