InfoComm 2026 in Las Vegas was the stage for the global debut of the OpenMeet 2 UC.
Ray Cheng, Product Manager at Shokz, says the device represents the company’s second generation of bone conduction technology for the office.
The OpenMeet 2 UC is built around bone conduction technology, an approach that sits firmly outside the mainstream of enterprise headset design.
Where traditional headsets deliver audio through the eardrums, bone conduction transmits sound via vibrations through the cheekbones, directly to the inner ear. The result: users can hear their calls clearly while keeping their ears open to the world around them.
For Cheng, that distinction is everything.
“Most customers want ANC – that’s fine. But some of them want to keep their ears open, and for office headset users, they’ve had no choice until now.”
The ideal customer, Cheng explains, is someone clocking four to six hours of calls and meetings daily who finds traditional headsets physically uncomfortable over long periods.
Rather than competing head-to-head with the likes of Jabra or Poly on noise cancellation, Shokz is carving out a different lane entirely – comfort and awareness for heavy headset users.
“We don’t want to build a similar headset,” Cheng said. “We want to provide something new.”
InfoComm, the world’s largest AV integrator show, was a deliberate choice for the launch.
Shokz sees the event as the right platform to signal its ambitions in the enterprise space, where the OpenMeet and OpenCom series form the foundation of its office portfolio – with more products potentially on the way.
For businesses rethinking how their teams communicate – especially those with employees splitting time between busy offices and home environments – Shokz is making a compelling case that open ears might just be the smarter option.
