Crestron transforms collaboration in multi-camera environments with Visual AI

The new features and tools that Crestron Electronics has introduced in Visual AI, with the Automate VX multi-camera speaker tracking solution, support a more effective collaboration and productivity environment in hybrid meetings.

The Crestron Smart Video has been expanded and improved with the new S solutionAutomate VX multi-camera speaker monitoring, that transforms the meeting room experience into larger spaces for seamless, immersive collaboration.

Crestron Automate VX directs cameras for cAdapt a speaker from multiple perspectives depending on where you look, so that key moments are always captured to improve virtual collaboration.

In a recent report, The Business Consultancy Frost and Sullivan provides that, for the year 2029, One in six medium- and large-sized meeting rooms will have a multi-camera solution.

Latest update to Automate VX adds new feature Visual AI Direction, that allows for smoother interactions during meetings, as the cameras change to intelligently select active speakers, depending on the angles of your face.

With this solution, Face-to-face attendees can act naturally to take a look around the room at the content of the screens, so you can see other participants without worrying about how those moments are captured for virtual users.

The Visual AI Direction feature leverages the Artificial intelligence to select the angle in which a person is located and switch from one camera to another, so that the speaker is well framed and centered, while avoiding less optimal shots of the side or back of someone's head.

When using multiple cameras in the room, Automate VX eliminates reliance on a static, fixed view of participants, common in systems with a single device, to help virtual attendees stay active in the meeting more equitably.

Automate VX's expanding feature set simplifies the meeting room experience, where greater collaboration and better engagement come naturally, without having to worry about the technology that the room has.

"We continue to invest in leveraging Visual AI's automatic framing and presenter tracking to deliver the most engaging meeting room experience on the market, so that participants can contribute and engage with their peers without interruption", Says Brad Hintze, Vp. Crestron's Global Marketing Executive.

With the introduction of Visual AI Direction technology, "We created a Dynamic Experience, where cameras automatically adjust and change seamlessly in real time, to ensure that speakers stand out at the right time and angle for virtual participants," Hintze stresses. These smooth transitions remove the obstacles of poor camera angles that result in disjointed collaboration due to interruptions.".

Automate VX also offers software tools that allow you to Set up rooms in advance through simple drag-and-drop. The latest update incorporates the ability to add furniture directly to the Intelligent Video Room Designer software, making it easy to incorporate tables and chairs into room layouts.

These parts can be scaled and moved through the design as needed to make space planning more efficient and accurate. In this way, Interested parties can view in advance Different furniture configurations and add other rooms to an existing one.

The new feature Breadcrumbs allows for faster implementation and more precise adjustment of the system to suit the acoustic characteristics of a space, such as the movement of chairs, the movement of the speakers around the room while they speak, etc.

To account for these variations, This feature collects the Last hundred audio pickups from the microphones in the room, providing accurate position data for space usage, making it easier for IT managers to monitor and adjust audio pickup locations for the best room usage results and proper switching.

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