Polycom transforms video displays into interactive whiteboards

Polycom introduced Polycom UC Board, an innovative interactive whiteboard that allows you to share content through video.

Interactive whiteboards are an important teamwork tool, but when used in a video conference, remote users often have trouble viewing whiteboard content, what harms work and participation. For this reason, Polycom has developed an innovative integrated visual collaboration solution that improves communication and teamwork during video conferences by instantly sharing the content written on the whiteboard with all screens and mobile devices connected to the video meeting..

Polycom UC Board is a simple solution, Stylish, cost-effective combines a Plug-and-Play receiver and easy-to-use pen with a compact design to simplify transportation. This solution allows you to transform whiteboards and LCD monitors into an interactive video whiteboard space that guarantees the participation of all attendees.. Polycom UC Board software natively integrates with Polycom RealPresence Room HDX solutions for natural content sharing, effective and, above all, easy. Users participating in a video meeting can also share content such as, For example, a presentation, and use the Polycom digital whiteboard to write, annotate or highlight key points directly on shared content, so that everyone can see it in real time.

Intuitive solution
Sudhakar Ramakrishna, Executive Vice President and General Manager of UC Solutions and Director of Development at Polycom, The Polycom UC Board is the first integrated visual collaboration product that makes sharing content through a digital whiteboard as simple as picking up a pencil.. This is great news for businesses of all types that need to bring together remote employees and clients for sales presentations., brainstorming sessions, planning meetings or training courses, all this ensuring clear access to all the visual content that is being presented and addressed”.

For your part, Christianne Orto, associate dean and director of the distance training and recording service at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, noted that “the Polycom UC Board makes real-time annotations quick and easy.”. Its use is so intuitive that, from the first moment you have the pencil in your hand, you start using it naturally. Teachers can annotate and present in the same way as on a traditional whiteboard., and students see the results from the beginning. With its use, an important barrier to distance education and training disappears”.

Applications in all sectors
Polycom UC Board is a solution that improves communication and teamwork in different scenarios: from an architect who sketches the latest idea for an ecological construction or a doctor who explains the diagnosis or procedure to a patient to a student who solves a problem with remote colleagues or an advertising executive who presents his new ideas with visual diagrams and designs. Besides, Enterprises can also record and stream whiteboard content using Polycom RealPresence platform solutions for applications such as, For example, training and education.

Polycom UC Board solution's compact design is quick to deploy and easy to use, because it has intuitive and familiar components: The Polycom UC Board solution consists of a compact infrared sensor that connects to a whiteboard or LCD display and a wireless pen that meeting moderators can use to sketch, write and make notes, as if it were a common pen or marker.

Besides, Polycom UC Board is easy to install and significantly more cost effective than solutions that require expensive specialized fixed equipment. Users can set up and use the Polycom UC Board in minutes via direct USB connection to the Polycom HDX system installed in the room, without the need to open other applications or use additional hardware. It is also easy to use, because unlike interactive whiteboard solutions from other manufacturers, Polycom UC Board works as soon as the pen touches the writing surface and requires no technical skills or training to use. Besides, New solution allows users to share their work seamlessly with any standards-based system, including tablets, no need for gateways (gateway) nor conversion software.

As part of the solution offered, Polycom offers technology from Luidia interactive solutions provider eBeam, that turns common surfaces into collaboration spaces where the capture, Recording and sharing content is made easy.