Empowering collaboration in the hybrid workplace with Surface Hub 2S and Surface Hub 2 Smart Camera

As hybrid work continues to evolve, it is imperative that organisations bring people together wherever they are – both inside the office and out – to communicate, collaborate and co-create. So many businesses face challenges around this ever phrase “Hybrid Workplace” that we have all come to know so well. But by definition, what does hybrid work mean to you and how can you make sure it evolves as quickly as your business needs it?

For years, Microsoft has invested in hardware and software solutions to meet emerging customer needs. As a Microsoft Partner – we get to see how products and solutions they deliver meet the wver growing demands and gaps across our operations. How many of us prefer working in the office sapce and need to collaborate with those working remotely? How often do we need a creative, responsive space that lendss itself to true collaboration.

Work together anywhere

Whether through Teams, Whiteboard or first-rate inking with Surface Hub 2 Pen, Surface Hub 2S provides a variety of features and capabilities to address these needs. With the new Surface Hub 2 Smart Camera, the meeting experience becomes even more immersive for people both in the room and participating remotely. With its automatic framing technology, portable design and high-quality video the Surface Hub 2 Smart Camera helps to ensure participants are seen and heard – whether they are at the back of a large room or interacting with the Surface Hub at the edge of the screen.

More inclusive connections

If you’ve noticed the clarity of Microsoft Surface Laptop and Surface Pro’s microphones, the smoothness of digital inking or the capabilities of Surface’s front-facing cameras, then you understand the importance of carrying this across on a larger scale. As the conference room whiteboard was once the gathering place for creative teams, Surface Hub – with touch, digital inking and companion software experiences – raises that bar for hybrid and remote teams.

As the trend toward hybrid work accelerates, you can move your sights on improving the experience, pushing further in ways that limit tradeoffs for remote participants and promote equity of experience. Think about the traditional hybrid meeting experience where a single camera fails to clearly capture who is speaking and what else might be happening in the room.

Allow us to introduce the Surface Hub 2 Smart Camera.

Collaborate better together

Across the Surface portfolio, we pride ourselves on delivering the best of Microsoft products and solutions. Surface Hub 2S is no exception. As hybrid meetings overtook more traditional meeting settings, we saw solutions like Surface Hub play a unique and powerful role. People needed the ability to co-create in an ad hoc fashion and build on the work of peers spread across a variety of locations and environments. Through the powerful combination of software that comes to life on Surface Hub, organisations could navigate such challenges. We bring the latest Microsoft experiences built for hybrid work across Teams, Microsoft 365, Windows and Whiteboard to Surface Hub 2S, Surface Laptop and Surface Pro. Let’s look at a few software innovations that make hybrid work more agile.

• We have made it even easier for all participants to co-create in a Whiteboard session that includes a Surface Hub. The UI that previously was optimized for Whiteboard screen-sharing has been updated to share a Whiteboard session from within a Teams meeting where each participant has automatic access to edit.
• Outlook will now allow you to RSVP to meetings and note whether you plan to appear in-person at the meeting or virtually.
• Enhancements to the companion device experience will make it easier and less distracting to join a hybrid meeting from within a conference room.
• Whiteboard now offers a rich set of capabilities that bring visual collaboration to life in Teams, including collaboration cursors, more than 50 new templates, contextual reactions and the ability to open existing boards and collaborate with external colleagues in Teams Meetings.
• Coming soon to PowerPoint, you no longer need to appear in person to deliver your message effectively. With recording studio and cameo in PowerPoint, you can create your own presentation, decide how and where you appear on your slides with cameo, record it and have the presentation delivered with, or without you, via PowerPoint Live in Teams.
• Fluent emojis in Teams allow you to bring your personality to the conversation. With new and vibrant styling, 3D Fluent emojis will infuse expression and playfulness into every message. Select a category to easily find the emoji you want and use the skin tone selector to pick an emoji that better represents you.

Bring hybrid teams together with a more inclusive way to meet and co-create. Empower teamwork anywhere with Surface Hub 2S, a collaborative canvas and meetings device certified for Microsoft Teams. Whether remote or in the same space, teams can whiteboard ideas, contribute to projects, and connect dynamically with a video conference experience that engages people wherever they work.