Google and design agency Aruliden have created an AI-enabled video-conferencing kit for that automatically senses the number of participants in a room and optimises sound quality and video framing for each.
The Google Meet Series One system is designed to be set up and used without requiring technicians, while the touch-free system allows attendees to join and leave meetings by voice command.
The system is designed to be set up without requiring technicians
"The most important thing was this notion of creating an experience, both digital and physical, that is as close as possible to actually being in the same room," said Aruliden co-founder Johan Liden.
The system consists of a family of six products. Liden said the components share " a very reductive design language" that eliminates clutter and results in a system that can be set up and used by people without technical expertise. "It's very easy to just pile on features and pile on buttons and make things a little bit too complicated," said Liden, whose company has offices in New York, Amsterdam and San Francisco.
"We wanted to make sure that that seamlessness and that simplicity is true from how you install it to how you use it," he added.
"I'm sure you've been in many conferences where they have to call the IT folks to get it up and running. Those are obviously the hurdles that we wanted to avoid."
The expandable system includes a soundbar, a 4K camera, a hub, optional m...