Jabra, a leader in the creation of innovative sound and audio solutions, recently announced their new Jabra PanaCast solution. The intelligent real-time video system comes with 180-degree panoramic vision, ensuring that everyone in your huddle or conference room gets their chance in the spotlight.
The announcement of the new video system followers Jabra’s acquisition of the Altia Systems brand. For years, Jabra has been focused on delivering tools that enhance concentration, collaboration, and productivity. The new PanaCast tool will combine Jabra’s 150-year background in sound with the latest in industry-leading video technology to deliver a modern huddle room experience.
The Jabra PanaCast is the world’s first intelligent video collaboration device, complete with 3 13-megapixel cameras that work together to produce an unbeatable vision experience.
Exploring the Jabra PanaCast
Jabra’s PanaCast video solution will provide today’s companies with the 180-degree panoramic vision that they need to ensure that everyone is included within a video-conferencing experience – no matter whether they’re in an ample conference space or huddle room.
The PanaCast solution combines leading-edge cameras with state-of-the-art microphones and intelligent vision software to ensure an end-to-end conferencing experience for the evolving workforce. Panoramic 4K video makes it feel like your remote workers are right there in the room with you.
Features include:
- Plug and play operation with a single USB cable
- 180-degree panoramic view with intelligent dynamic stitching between three cameras
- State-of-the-art PanaCast vision processor
- Crystal-clear sound provided by the Jabra Speak Series
- Brilliant Vision AI which adjusts the conference experience automatically
- Smart Zoom continuously optimises the field of view automatically
- The Jabra PanaCast Vivid 2.0 software automatically adjusts video properties to improve experiences under changing light conditions
- Upcoming open-standards API will allow ecosystem partners to develop value-added services on the back of the Jabra PanaCast solution
Optimal Meeting Room Performance
With a carefully-constructed combination of fourth-generation stitching technology and innovative microphones and cameras, Jabra PanaCast will give companies complete use of their meeting spaces. The built-in people detection tech even ensures that everyone feels more involved in a conferencing conversation. No-one gets left out of the picture.
The CEO for Jabra, Rene Svendsen-Tune, said that the company has always placed value on the importance of personal interactions and sound in every product in the Jabra portfolio. The introduction of the PanaCast solution demonstrates the company’s commitment to helping all businesses achieve optimal productivity and collaboration experience.
Users can also integrate the “Speak” series of leading speakerphones from Jabra with the PanaCast to improve their UC experience. The combination of audio and video will allow for a complete HD voice and video environment. What’s more, the PanaCast video solution easily mounts onto a wall or digital display for quick and easy setup.
Jabra’s new PanaCast offering works seamlessly with many of the most popular collaboration and UC tools on the market, including Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoom, GoToMeeting, BlueJeans, and Unify Circuit. For a complete end-to-end conferencing experience, Jabra is pulling out all of the stops. According to Svendsen-Tune, the company wants to “challenge the market in both audio and video solutions by providing something that provides the best of both worlds.”
Already, Jabra customers have reported promising results, with a 20% reduction in meeting duration, and a four-time growth in the number of video-based meetings among companies.
