Logitech RightSight 2 Makes Hybrid Meetings More Equitable for Remote Participants

[TheLostSwede]

Today, Logitech is creating more equitable experiences for hybrid workers with RightSight 2 software that now simultaneously presents both a close-up view of the individual speaker and a view of the entire meeting room during video calls. With RightSight 2 auto-framing technology, far-end participants can follow the active speaker while also getting situational context from the group, such as one person gesturing to another or writing on a whiteboard.

As the workforce adapts to a long-term hybrid environment, Logitech continues to advance its software intelligence to deliver the immersive, inclusive experiences that remote participants would have if they were physically in the room. RightSight 2 is Logitech's latest innovation in an ongoing goal to make meetings more equitable now and in the future.




"Remote participants can often feel like second-class citizens when they're on video calls with in-office colleagues. They miss important in-room interactions or may struggle to keep up with the meeting flow," said Scott Wharton, general manager and vice president, Logitech Video Collaboration. "RightSight 2 is the equalizer for remote participants so they can collaborate with their conference room counterparts on equal footing regardless of their location."

RightSight 2 combines audio and video intelligence to detect people's placement in the room and the location of their voices. Speaker View is a new mode that uses the two-camera system in Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini to render a picture-in-picture view* of the active speaker and the whole group. The active speaker is framed using the main camera that pans and zooms smoothly as the speaker changes, while the wide-angle AI Viewfinder frames the room, ensuring remote participants can see and hear all meeting exchanges clearly. IT admins have the flexibility to toggle between Speaker View and Group View (RightSight's original implementation of auto-framing) to best suit their teams.

RightSight 2's Speaker View is compatible with all of Logitech's major cloud video conferencing partners, giving IT teams assurance that their Logitech video collaboration ecosystem will adapt to the evolving needs of their hybrid workplace. The feature will work as picture-in-picture mode with Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android and Windows, and seamlessly integrates into Zoom Rooms multi-stream technology—which shows each of the speaker and room streams in separate, individual tiles.

Pricing and Availability
RightSight 2's Speaker View is now available globally for free as a public beta on CollabOS 1.5 for Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini. Users can update their video bars in Sync device management software now, or through partner platforms like Zoom Device Management and Teams Admin Center soon.

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[BArms]

"More equitable" sounds like this PR was written by some woke DIE administrator attempting to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist. One thing is for sure I won't be buying anything that uses woke political language in their sales pitches.

 

[Chomiq]

Yes, we need this because everyone nowadays is running meetings where there are multiple people sitting in the same room.

 

[Solidstate89]

"More equitable" sounds like this PR was written by some woke DIE administrator attempting to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist. One thing is for sure I won't be buying anything that uses woke political language in their sales pitches.

Lmfao, what an absolutely demented world view.

 

[DeeJay1001]

Yes, we need this because everyone nowadays is running meetings where there are multiple people sitting in the same room.

I work in IT, I setup A/V for multiple meetings a week. I haven't setup a meeting for a single person in months. Having a good webcam that is wide enough to capture everyone at a table in a small space is difficult. Products like this webcam are vital.

 

[Chomiq]

I work in IT, I setup A/V for multiple meetings a week. I haven't setup a meeting for a single person in months. Having a good webcam that is wide enough to capture everyone at a table in a small space is difficult. Products like this webcam are vital.

I guess it depends on the companies you're dealing with. All meetings I had for these past 2 years were all remote and most of the attendees had their cameras off.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Lmfao, what an absolutely demented world view.

Can't really be considered demented when "equity" is repeatedly used to justify "well X group is too succesful, they must be held responsible for hating group Y. Ther eis no other reason thsi could be occuring" minsets in increasingly woke corporate culture.

 

[claes]

“Equitable,” in this case, means the feeling of being in the room, ie being able to observe what traditionally happens off-screen. The only thing “woke” here is that being able to work in the same space is more advantageous than not, which actually doesn’t bare out in reality (unless you value the emotional stress of workplaces over productivity), but hey, call it racism/sexism/whatever if you want to, how very woke of you.

 

[thelawnet]

"More equitable" sounds like this PR was written by some woke DIE administrator attempting to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist. One thing is for sure I won't be buying anything that uses woke political language in their sales pitches.

they are selling this for corporate meeting rooms, so it makes sense to use that kind of language because the job is to sell hardware to a particular target market. By putting 'equitable' on the box they can sell a bunch more units in this space.

the product fits some niche, and by trying to hit some dumb buzzword they can sell more units. they'd be failing their shareholders if they did anything else.