Clearly Time for Video

Hybrid office re-equipping gets easier as EPOS launches Expand Vision 3, a 4K video conferencing bar with AI framing for Microsoft Teams Rooms.

Maya Middlemiss

As the business world co-ordinates its return to long-empty office spaces, so much has changed in terms of user expectation. Videoconferencing, once a niche alternative to face-to-face collaboration, is now an essential part of every UC strategy. Ensuring a frictionless transition to a hybrid and flexible future will depend upon getting the right tools in place, as people return to the one-site meeting room again.

With its extensive track record in quality audio solutions, EPOS is bringing to market the Expand Vision 3 video conferencing product, just in time for those businesses wondering how best to re-equip its spaces for the safe and flexible reoccupation of the office.

The familiar audio standards of EPOS, now in video calling

Recognising that every team will continue to have a remote component for the foreseeable future, it’s essential that those participants are not disadvantaged by a poor communication experience. While everyone was working remotely through the crisis, EPOS audio ensured that we could all hear and understand each other, wherever we were. Their pioneering research helped the world to understand the importance of audio clarity for effective distributed communications, and ensure no costly detail got lost in the crackle.

Now as some of us return to shared spaces on a flexible basis, Expand Vision 3 will ensure that the remote contingent experience the same rich interpersonal communication their on-site colleagues enjoy, complete with deep synchronicity, the nuanced enhancement of body language, and frictionless connection.

It’s the next best thing to being sat side by side — even if you’re on different sides of the city, or the world. 4K capture is augmented by intelligent framing, voice tracking, and noise cancellation — powered by the same smart EPOS AI its audio fans have come to depend upon.

A practical and effective solution for the office

Businesses who want their employees to feel safely enabled to collaborate from any location in teams of any size will welcome this solution for deploying professional-grade UC-enabled video in smaller spaces — even if we may no longer want to call them huddle rooms, in our safely-distanced new normality.

Opting for Expand Vision 3 is a pragmatic future-proof solution that is independent of specific devices and set-ups, because many people will feel more comfortable working from their own devices anyway. While for the organisation it’s an affordable alternative to installing room systems in smaller spaces, particularly if long-term decisions about real estate strategy are still in the balance: a simple and intuitive portable collaboration bar with integrated SIP client, designed specifically to address the audio-visual experience for up to 8 colocated participants.

Certified for Teams

Making things even more straightforward for the IT department and the end user alike, the Expand Vision 3T - shipping now - is bundled with the EPOS Expand SP 30T speakerphone, and certified for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android — giving you a ready-to-go meeting room out the box, in the Teams environment which has become the ‘digital workspace’ for so many during the pandemic.

Alternatively, the standard EPOS Expand Vision 3 is optimised for your choice of UC solution, and available later this year.

Either way, you can deploy it when and where you need it (desktop, display, or wall mounted), and stay in control with simple remote set-up and updates. Supporting all the meeting functionality discerning users expect, from flexible connectivity to dual screen feeds, the EPOS Expand 3 redefines video for groups in the sweet spot so many have sought, between a webcam and a pricey all-in-one collaboration bar approach.

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