Jabra PanaCast 50: Hybrid video conferencing revolutionized by AI

Hybrid meetings are the focus of business today: research by Jabra* revealed that 80 percent of all meetings globally are fully virtual or hybrid. It is therefore important that professionals get the most out of their meetings, regardless of where they interact.

In response to this need, and in collaboration with Microsoft, Jabra is introducing new updates to the PanaCast 50 Video Bar, including Microsoft IntelliFrame with multiple video streams and facial and voice recognition capabilities**. These new features support Microsoft’s next-generation AI tools, including intelligent meeting summarization in Teams Premium.

Jabra’s collaboration with Microsoft opens a new era of inclusive and dynamic communication. The PanaCast 50 will be one of the first intelligent video bars with Teams Rooms on Windows to enable Microsoft IntelliFrame with multiple video streams.

In addition, with the voice recognition capabilities of Teams, PanaCast 50 enables participants in the room to maintain their identity in the transcription of the meeting, facilitating AI-based productivity tools.

With the intelligent summarization provided by the Teams Premium solution, you will be able to get automatically generated meeting notes, recommended activities, and customized highlights to get the most important information, even if someone misses the meeting. Microsoft IntelliFrame, on the other hand, provides each participant with a dedicated camera, ensuring a more inclusive remote experience and an optimized “front row” experience in room-to-room meetings.
Both functions play a key role in helping employees hold more productive meetings, get up to speed on key topics, organize key discussion points, and summarize actions so that the entire group understands the next steps.

PanaCast 50 camera enables dynamic communication with facial and voice recognition technology
The new multiple video stream feature allows remote users of the Teams meeting to get a better view of who is in the room with three video streams: the first stream is that of the current speaker, the second is that of the previous speaker, and the third depicts the full panoramic view of the meeting room or space, so that no participant feels left out. The facial recognition feature allows participants in the room – subject to authorization with individual registration – to show their names to users remotely and compile the list of participants.

The voice recognition feature, subject to individual registration, allows participants in the room to maintain their identity in the meeting transcript, enabling users with a Teams Premium license to make an intelligent and more accurate report.

Hybrid meetings are taken to the next level as the system features Jabra Intelligent Meeting Space. The new feature allows a virtual meeting room or space boundary to be set with the PanaCast 50, so that people within the defined space are fully included, while people outside the boundary are not inadvertently encompassed.

Aurangzeb Khan, Senior Vice President of Intelligent Vision Systems at Jabra, said, “We at Jabra are always looking for solutions to harness the power of cutting-edge AI technologies to revolutionize hybrid and remote meetings. That’s why we are excited to introduce these new features of the PanaCast 50 for collaboration with Microsoft Teams. These innovations are intended to provide professionals with immediate productivity benefits, helping them operate better in the era of seamless hybrid work, online and offline.”

Albert Kooiman, Senior Director, Microsoft Teams Devices Partner Engineering and Certification, Microsoft, commented, “Microsoft Teams harnesses the power of Artificial Intelligence to create unique user experiences before, during and after Teams meetings to enhance employee inclusion and foster natural collaboration. Jabra and Microsoft have worked closely on the PanaCast 50 to make this device an essential component that best implements AI-powered features.”

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