Coming up,
I'll give you an in-depth tour of Surface Hub user experiences.
Including joining and running meetings using Skype for business,
using touch and pen to navigate, create, and annotate.
And bringing your own content to Surface Hub.
With Surface Hub, we took an integrated approach
spanning hardware and software to provide you with a rich and immersive experience.
It provides powerful video teleconferencing capabilities
to help join people together
along with natural affordances to allow groups of people to collaborate simultaneously.
All of this is built on a version of Windows
that is highly optimized for group collaboration.
When you enter the room or approach the device,
Surface Hub comes to life, inviting you up to the screen.
The first thing you'll notice is are welcome experience.
From here you can start or join a meeting,
start white-boarding, or connect using your own content.
Let's go ahead and join a meeting.
So here we're starting a meeting up.
Starting the audio automatically.
We're starting the video automatically.
And i'm going to go ahead and proceed by opening a PowerPoint presentation
that I brought on a USB drive.
Browse to the removable storage .
Open the presentation.
And present the screen.
And just like that, now I have remote participants able to see and hear the room
as well as see the content that i'm projecting on the screen.
Scheduling a meeting is straightforward too.
Just schedule a meeting as you normally would.
Find a time.
Create a new Skype meeting.
Add your recipient.
Add a title.
And just hit send.
Just like that, the meeting is scheduled and will be available on the Surface Hub.
As a remote participant
one of the key goals of Surface Hub was to bring you into the room.
This is why we start the video stream automatically.
This allows you to see the interactions and subtle cues between people
that are often missed on audio only calls.
We paid particular attention to the placement of the cameras.
These are at eye level
to provide you with a more natural view of the room.
You'll notice, the camera is co-located next to the video stream.
That makes it easy to see when I'm looking at content or i'm looking at a remote participants.
These visual cues
make the remote experience far more immersive and engaging.
And as I move from one side of the device to the other,
the Surface Hub provides the best view of the room for remote participants.
Surface Hub was designed from the start
to use touch and pen as the primary interaction mechanisms.
Simply pick up the pen.
Whiteboard comes up.
And now I can start inking.
Notice that ink flows naturally out of the pen.
It's fast and it's fluid.
So it's touch.
I can very easily zoom in and move the canvas around.
Interestingly, I don't actually have to mode switch.
Ink flows out of the pen,
and I could just touch the canvas and move around.
Also, we can use this with three people.
I've got two pens here.
And it's very easy to have multiple people collaborate.
Two pens can have different ink colors.
And, I can draw simultaneously.
Finally, because this is a digital whiteboard,
we can do things that are very difficult to do on traditional whiteboards.
Such as, select content and move it around.
PowerPoint is another great example.
When I open a slideshow,
I can very naturally use gestures to advance slides.
I can use the pen to ink and annotate to call attention.
Again, I don't have to mode switch.
I can very easily use gestures and pen at the same time
Finally, because Surface Hub is running Windows,
you can install universal Windows apps for your business.
Open the start menu
and we pre-installed Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
But as an administrator you can add any apps you like.
and we've done just that here.
Not all content needs to be local to Surface Hub.
We designed wired and wireless projection capabilities
that allow you to quickly present from your own personal device.
This allows you to easily bring and show your own content.
It's also a great way to show content from applications that won't run natively on Surface Hub.
You can connect your PC, Mac or Chromebook using DisplayPort or HDMI.
On supported devices, you can also connect USB to enable touch back.
This allows you to control your connected device using Surface Hub.
Here I've connected this Surface Book,
to the Surface Hub, and i'm running Photoshop.
I can very easily pick up a pen,
grab this image,
and start dodging and burning the image.
Lighten up his face and bring out his forearm just a little bit.
Then, switch tools.
Close out the background just a touch to add emphasis.
Making it a great tool for creatives to do their best work.
Finally, Surface Hub was designed with privacy and reliability in mind.
When you're finished using the Surface Hub,
It's easy to clean up the room for the next meeting.
Just press "I'm done", and we'll reset the device.
That includes removing any files that you use during your meeting,
deleting credentials that you might have entered,
and cleaning any other application data.
So when you leave the room,
it's ready for the next people who come in.
So that was a quick tour of the experience of working with Surface Hub.
We'll continue to bring new experiences and capabilities
with upcoming releases of Windows 10.
To learn more, check out the Surface Hub user guide at the link below.
And keep watching Microsoft Mechanics
for the latest in design and management of Surface Hub devices.
Thanks for watching.
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