Earlier this month, Microsoft launched their "Build" conference with their eyes set firmly on the future. During a segment covered by Marketing Manager Raanah Amjadi, the brand explained how they were in the process of creating prototype devices to merge the digital and physical worlds of the meeting room.
They referred to the concept as the "Meeting room of the Future" - and it's certainly futuristic, with all the features you'd expect from a sci-fi-inspired toolkit. The new technology is housed in a cone-shaped device, which comes with its own 360-degree camera and state-of-the-art microphone array. When set up in a meeting room environment, the device detects attendee presence in a meeting room, greets visitors, and more.
Achieving the AI-Powered Meeting Room
Thanks to artificial intelligence technology like audio and facial recognition, the meeting room tool can track everything that happens in your meetings. That means that it can transcribe your conferences, so you have notes on everything that was said.
What's more, Microsoft suggested that the device might even be able to take cues from the things you say in the meeting to provide actionable alerts and nudges to relevant people. For instance, if you said "I'll call you tomorrow" in the meeting, Microsoft's virtual assistant Cortana could remind you to do just that.
Because it transcribes information in real-time the system can also provide translations for people in a meeting who don't speak the same language.
