RoomReady Tech Lab: Your Playground for Future-Proofing Collaboration Spaces
The RoomReady Tech Lab isn’t your typical showroom. It’s a dynamic, hands-on environment designed to bridge the gap between theory and reality for collaboration technology. Here, you’ll step beyond product brochures and static demos to experience cutting-edge AV solutions firsthand.
The Growth of Multi-Camera Video Meeting Spaces
In our rapidly evolving landscape of remote work and digital collaboration, video conferencing technology has been pushed to keep up with our growing needs for more impactful virtual environments. The rise of multi-camera video meeting spaces is a response to those needs, enhancing the way teams interact and communicate virtually.
AV Trends and Predictions for 2024
As we look ahead into 2024, we can expect those innovations to expedite as AI technology continues advancing at an increasingly rapid pace. Meanwhile, improvements in both audio and visual software and hardware will help make this an exciting year for AV applications as a whole.
Updates from Microsoft Ignite 2023
This year’s edition of Microsoft Ignite, held in Seattle in November, was predictably heavily focused on AI. Just about every update was either expressly about AI or included a significant amount of attention to it.
Learnings from WebexOne
For the 2023 conference, WebexOne tackled significant issues facing all organizations, selecting the theme “Everything AI, Hybrid Work & Customer Experience.” We’ll break this down and more below.
Key Takeaways from Zoomtopia
With increasing return to work mandates, evolving hybrid workspaces, and AI functionality becoming the norm for basically every app imaginable, there was plenty to talk about at this year’s Zoomtopia.
It’s Budget Season – Get a Jump Start on Your Meeting Room Tech Upgrades
Throughout the budgeting process, one of the most common questions we’re asked is should AV tech be treated as a capital or operational expenditure? The answer is truly it depends…
AI Plays a Bigger Role in the Meeting Room Than You Might Know
By now you’ve probably heard of – or even experimented with – ChatGPT, the generative artificial intelligence tool that can write epic poems and solve complex math equations in mere seconds. Here are just a few ways AI – and AI-powered technologies have changed the way we meet:
Teaming Up Instead of Buying Out: The New Trend in Meeting Room AV
Now that AV companies are moving out of survival mode and into innovation mode, the push for more all-in-one solutions is once again top-of-mind. Instead of acquisition or going it alone, however, they’re touting partnerships as the path forward.
It’s Time to Get Serious About the Future of the Office
Offices were designed for a different purpose pre-pandemic. Now, the solitary work we did in cubicles can just as easily be done at home, while collaboration spaces are in far higher demand.
Summer Break Upgrade: Prioritizing Classroom Tech
School might be out for summer, but faculty & administrators know their work is far from done, especially when it comes to technology.
Three Reasons Why No Meeting Room is Set Without the Set
The Set sets you up for success from the moment installation begins, to whenever you’re meeting in the room, and even to when AV maintenance is required. Here’s how.
Lessons Learned from an AV Newbie
I recently had the opportunity to share my experiences as a young AV professional on a panel sponsored by Atlona, a RoomReady partner. Here are a few key takeaways for the Millennials and Gen Z’ers considering a career in AV.
Looking Into Our Crystal Ball: Three AV Trends to Watch in 2023
Now that we’ve settled into a hybrid groove, it’s not too early to begin thinking about how AV spaces will evolve in the coming year. Before we start tearing into presents and eating far, far too many cookies, we wanted to share a few of the trends we think will pick up speed in 2023.
Meetings about Meetings
In the meeting technology space, it’s our job to help your business thrive in a hybrid work world. We keep your employees connected across cities, time zones and even countries.
Keeping reading to see what cool new AV tech trended at two of this year’s top conferences:
Hardware vs. Software: Where’s the Industry Going?
When you opened your last smartphone, you were probably surprised to find there was no port to plug in your headphones. Or maybe it was when you went to plug an HDMI cable into your laptop, only to discover…a lot of nothing.
Inside A Dedicated Support Team
We recently sat down with three of our dedicated support technicians – Ron Kuba, Steve Caparco and Mitchell Cummings – to learn more about what dedicated support is all about. During our discussion, they filled us in on their roles and the value a dedicated support team brings to organizations.
Making My First Call Using Microsoft FrontRow
In late January 2022, Microsoft began to roll out a public preview of Front Row. Our friends at Microsoft have shared a lot of content highlighting the features Front Row offers to enhance collaboration, so I was eager to enroll my Windows MTR system and experience what the excitement was all about.
The Pantagraph: 5 questions with Jamie Huff, president of Bloomington-based RoomReady
Each week, The Pantagraph profiles a different community member. The week of February 6, 2022 featured RoomReady President, Jamie Huff.
Three Steps for a Successful Video Room Upgrade
It’s time to re-evaluate and re-design your room for today’s workplace realities
Department Spotlight: Assembly
Learn more about how the Assembly team works to build and test solutions in our facilities before they head out the door.
Three Reasons Why Room Menus Work Best
Room menus are proven room solutions with standard pricing. They are designed to make the purchase, installation, and support of video rooms easy for end users and partners.
Chef's Choice: The Importance of Room Menus
For customers looking to install new meeting room technology, the whole process may be met with an eye roll. Fortunately, that where pre-determined, standard room designs come into play.
Solving the Multi-Platform Problem
Solving the multi-platform problem means delivering video meetings on multiple platforms in your meeting rooms. Let’s explore a few ways to make that happen.
COVID-19 Meeting Rooms Tech
Meeting rooms and office technology have changed significantly over the past few years, so we must change our approach to meeting room technology, too.
Employee Return?
Talk about a hot potato: Conversations among many companies throughout the United States center around the best and safest ways to call employees back to work, even though the COVID-19 pandemic is not yet behind us.
Tomorrow's tech, today's challenges
Common problems faced in offices today can be solved with “tomorrow’s” tech
Being Productive While Remote
Can’t be in the same room? Video conferencing is the next best thing
COVID-19: Living Our Core Values
Our core values, to Care Deeply, Help Others and Stay Grateful, hold more true today than they ever have.
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data on campuses
Facilities managers are using data to make faster, more evidence-based decisions on how to utilize meeting space.