- Hey there, Pete Moriarty here.
I am recording at Google today
and they have just launched the amazing Hangouts Meet,
this is called Hangouts Meet Hardware
and this is a new touchscreen device
which integrates with their Hangouts Meeting Kit.
Now this is a brand new model being added to
the Hangouts for Meetings Chrome Hardware family
and I'm very excited to be sharing
all the nitty-gritty details on this awesome new device.
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Okay so Google have now released
their brand new Hangouts for Meet and this is the kit.
This is integrated with your G Suite account
or if you're not on G Suite, dunno why you wouldn't be,
but you can actually run this
as a separate video conferencing unit.
Now what this means is
all of these components come together beautifully,
you bring your own screen, TV, projector,
whatever you like in your boardroom or your meeting room,
and this creates an instant professional,
high quality Google Meetings Kit.
It means that you can do video conferencing,
either from your meeting room to someone's computer,
to someone's mobile device,
or even if you're lucky enough to have multiple offices,
you can run two of these in different offices
and connect everyone together.
Now it's powered by Google Hangouts in the background,
which is now Google Meet,
which is the new faster version of Google Hangouts,
and what that means is that
all of these components come together
no matter what device you're on
and connect your meeting room to the rest of your team,
to your clients, or to whoever!
We're gonna go through
each one of these individual components
and show you how they will work,
what they do and why this is the absolute best
Hangouts Meeting Kit for your business.
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So four main components in this kit,
this is kind of the standard,
this is the same as the old Hangouts Meeting Kit,
this is the kind of brains.
It's an Asus Chromebox
with an I7 Processor and a bunch of RAM in there.
This doesn't really do much apart from hide behind the TV
and control everything and this, of course,
plugs into the internet connection or Wifi
and actually beams up and connects up to Google Hangouts.
Next up, we have the camera and this is probably
the most special part of this Meeting Kit.
This is a camera by a company called cuddly,
Huddly, sorry not cuddly, and what this does is
it's a 4K sensor, so super high quality camera
and it's got a massive field of view,
so it's a wide-angle lens.
The beauty about that is that means that
this kit works really well in smaller meeting rooms,
if you've ever joined a meeting
and, you know, three people are crowding around a laptop
and two people have their faces cut off
because they're not quite within
the field of view of the camera,
this solves that problem, it's got a super wide-angle lens.
But the other great
and really interesting thing about this is it's a 4K sensor,
but it actually includes special Google software inside,
not only the camera, but also the Chromebox as well.
So this takes the image from this high-powered camera
and it uses machine learning
to look at the size of your room
and adequately crop and adjust the picture
so it fits all the people in the room and nothing else.
So if you've got a massive room,
it's gonna automatically adjust to the size of your room.
The other thing that it does automatically
is it's going to identify faces of people in the room
and actually see who's talking
and automatically adjust the vision and the pitch
of that individual Google Hangout
and effectively zoom in or crop in to the person
who's speaking and moving around.
So very, very cool technology,
this is the kind of video conferencing technology
which is usually reserved for five, 10, $15,000 rollouts
with Cisco gear or Lifesize
or massive sophisticated video conferencing setups.
This is simple, easy and accessible and all integrated
with your existing G Suite account using Google Hangouts,
which is what I absolutely love about it.
So what are these two bits?
Well this one is the microphone and speaker,
so this sits plonk in the middle of a table
and this has actually been developed
in collaboration with Google,
this is a internal testing unit.
You currently can't order them in white in Australia,
they're only in black.
These white ones will be released in the first part of 2018.
But this has been developed in collaboration
between Asus and Google
and it's both a speaker and a microphone.
Now it has echo reduction built-in and noise,
not quite noise-canceling, but noise reduction as well,
so it helps to filter out some of the background noise
or if someone's in the next room being too loud,
it will actually help you do that.
And what I like about it is
it's actually got nice tactile buttons that are on here,
well they're actually touchscreen but they're touch buttons,
but they feel tactile in that these buttons
will allow you to automatically control the call,
so you can jump into a call, you can jump out of there
and, you know, mute, put the volume up and down
and those kind of things.
And it's got little indicator lights on here as well.
Now what's cool about these is
if you've got a larger meeting room,
you can daisy chain these together.
So I think the limit is five or six, but that means that
if you wanna spread these out along the room,
they'll automatically talk to each other intelligently
and that means that you can have different people talking
in different parts of the room
and not have echoes or double-ups.
And the beautiful thing about these is
they only require one power cord,
they actually daisy chain so for installation,
it makes it super simple and, for the most part,
when you're setting up one of these meeting room kits,
you're gonna be installing it yourself
so you don't have to worry about
electricians or professional installation fees
or anything of that nature.
Now this is the last bit and this is the new piece
that's been introduced into the Google family
as part of the Google Kit.
Now I've seen these internally at Google
for the past three or four years
and I've always wondered, well, you know,
why doesn't the rest of the world have access to these?
This is a touchscreen meeting manager,
or meeting room manager let's say,
and this little device here
actually sits in the meeting room.
It connects up to the Google Hangouts Kit
and it displays a list of all the current meetings
that are scheduled for that meeting room.
So if you've ever wanted to just run into a meeting room
and, you know, start running a meeting
with some teammates straight away but you're not sure
whether or not somebody's booked it,
or if you want to book it out
right from the device and right from the room,
then you can do that
right from this little touchscreen here.
The other cool thing is all of the controls
to do with the Hangouts meeting,
you can do from this touchscreen.
So if you need to mute someone who's on the Hangouts call,
if you need to kick somebody out,
if you need to switch on or off your video,
you can do that all from the touchscreen here
and it's yeah, beautifully integrated,
sits on the table in your meeting room or your boardroom
and that means that you can get all the controls done
right from here without having to dig around
with a remote control which needs batteries
and sometimes they go missing and sometimes they break,
this is an all-in-one and guess what,
it's even powered by the microphone and speaker here,
so again, you're not stuck with extra cables.
So this is the new Google Meets Hardware Kit,
this is all you need to set up a professional meeting room.
There is still of course the standard meetings hardware kit,
which is a little bit lower in price,
but misses out on the touchscreen
and the awesome 4K camera here,
so you won't have all the exactly the same features,
but it will give you still
a great experience with Google Hangouts.
So check these out with our store,
we'll put a link right down below
and if you've got any questions,
let us know below the video!
See ya next time, cheers.
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