We have all been there. You get into a meeting room and then have to go through the inevitable rigmarole of trying to join your mobile device to the screen so you can display content for your colleagues. The right adapters aren't available, the wireless presenter doesn’t work and then when you finally get it sorted your colleague enters the room and the process begins again.
This is a problem that users face around the world. Even in the best planned and managed businesses, allowing external users to present still raises a problem when they don’t have a compatible device. This is only sharing too! How complicated would it be if you wanted to collaborate on something? Well with one product maybe not as complicated as you might think.
Solstice, from Mersive removes these issues. Solstice combines innovative software and a hardware device to reduce the eternal meeting and collaboration headache and offer various enhancements over and above its core offering. UC Today spoke to Christopher Jaynes who is the founder and CTO of Mersive to find out more about their history and how their solutions can transform the local and remote meeting experience.
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"This is one of the massive technology inversions where people are going into the office and having to go back in time from the consumer world. Where they can watch shows from their phone on their TV but can't freely share content from all the devices they bring to a meeting. If you believe that content is the most critical part of collaboration, then Solstice provides an ability to share and show that content in a simple and effective way."
Starting in display technology Mersive began with computer vision within the projection world but they quickly realised the applications they had uncovered were only of niche interest in the enterprise AV market. Their initial products, although a great success and still utilised by Formula 1 Teams, Disney and in the White House, were not necessarily feasible for the smaller end meeting and conference experience.
After receiving backing from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other forward-thinking partners, Mersive launched Solstice. There was a huge amount of work required to enable meetings without cables or dongles and that is where the team began their development process.
"If you can just say what's the perfect meeting space? If we can support that through software that’s where things get really exciting and that’s how we have been forming our roadmap."
Solstice enables collaboration by allowing unlimited users to share unlimited content from their connected devices. The Solstice App, available across multiple platforms, allows any user to wirelessly and securely connect to the Solstice Pod and share content onto any display. The application at its core utilises a simple user interface to enable users to easily navigate the functions available. The Solstice Pod connects to a display and then users can interface with that to share and collaborate on the chosen content sent from the app through to the device. Even high definition audio and video streams with high fidelity and reliability. Customers can simply and securely deploy Solstice across multiple locations whilst centrally managing them from single console. The Solstice Pod has dual-network functionality allowing secure collaboration over multiple networks, such as corporate and guest. This enables external users to seamlessly collaborate without the usual security concerns.
