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Hello! Welcome to another Tech Talk with Konnectus<\/a>.\u00a0 This is David. And I\u2019m Jonathan.\u00a0 And this is our final part of our three-part series on Video Conferencing.\u00a0 Today, we\u2019re going to be talking about the environmental properties of the room and how it affects the Video Conferencing experience.\u00a0 So, let\u2019s jump straight in Dave.\u00a0 What is the main equipment in the Video Conferencing Room? Well, there are four pieces of Video Conferencing Equipment<\/a> Jonathan.\u00a0 We have, obviously, the display screen which you look at to see who you\u2019re talking to on the call.\u00a0 You have a microphone, or a series of microphones, which are used to capture what is being said by the people inside the room during the call.\u00a0 You have a camera, or series of cameras, and these are obviously capturing the vision of the people inside the room.\u00a0 And then you have some loudspeakers playing back the audio from the people on the other side of the conference call. Great!\u00a0 So that\u2019s the main equipment.\u00a0 Now, where do we actually see it?\u00a0 How do we arrange the room? This is the key, Jonathan.\u00a0 You need to make sure that the sightlines are being respected here.\u00a0 So, we need to choose a table which allows everybody around it to clearly see the display screens.\u00a0 And secondly, for the camera or cameras to clearly see the front of the faces of all the people sitting around the table.\u00a0 So, long, thin tables in those boardrooms, they\u2019re definitely no good.\u00a0 What you prefer to have is something more like a V-shape table or U-shape table.\u00a0 That\u2019ll be a much better design. Yeah, right.<\/p>\n

Now, the next one is I\u2019ve been on the end of the call where it\u2019s very hard to hear people.\u00a0So, what do we need to do to address that? Right.\u00a0So, acoustics Jonathan, I think you\u2019re alluding to.\u00a0 It\u2019s very important that you can see the room and how it\u2019s going to sound.\u00a0 That\u2019s a little bit difficult to do on paper, but I guess there\u2019s a rule of thumb that you could look at to be fine every time.\u00a0 If you could have at least two adjacent surfaces in a room, for example, two walls.\u00a0 If those two walls could be treated acoustically, then the other surfaces in the room could be hard and a little bit reflective, like glass or chip rock walls, that will be fine but at least two which are adjacent, that\u2019s the key.<\/p>\n

Now, the other one that I find always a problem is, people who are dark on camera and hard to see, you can\u2019t see the expressions on their face.\u00a0 How do you address that? Right.\u00a0 Lighting is a big one, Jonathan.\u00a0 I guess there\u2019s two parts here.\u00a0 First of all, we need to be controlling the ambient light that\u2019s flowing into the room.\u00a0 For example, if you have a room with big windows or gets a lot of sunlight during the day, you want to make sure, first of all, you can have some blinds, shades, curtains to control that light coming in or you could choose a room with no windows which is even easier.\u00a0 Now, once we\u2019ve controlled the ambient light, we need to control the artificial lights.\u00a0 So here, I guess the rule of thumb is don\u2019t look to design lighting where the lights coming directly down from above on to people\u2019s faces and casting shadows.\u00a0 Instead, what you want to have as the objective is a more even, sort of, flood of light throughout the room where people\u2019s faces are evenly lit and well-lit.\u00a0 You can even use the tables to bounce some light off if you\u2019ve got a light-colored table.<\/p>\n

Well, you touched on the table there so, what about the interior design?\u00a0 Do I want nice artwork behind people so they can see it? No.\u00a0 I\u2019d always say you definitely don\u2019t want that.\u00a0 You see, the key when we talk about interior design of the room Jonathan is the people are the focus, they are the subject of the video conference call.\u00a0 So, let\u2019s keep the attention on them.\u00a0 Okay?\u00a0 So, I think just some neutral kind of soft color in the background on the walls and soft furnishings is perfectly fine.\u00a0 You need to be avoiding, you know, those strong patterns or, you know, beautiful artwork pieces in the background of the camera.\u00a0 That\u2019s not really the right room, a video conferencing room.\u00a0 You can put those in other areas or, perhaps, to the sides. Right. Got it, Dave.<\/p>\n

Well, that concludes our three-part series on Video Conferencing, Jonathan.\u00a0 So, for more great tech talks, or a free consultation, visit us at konnectus.com.au.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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