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Darthsinex

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Sure there must be some experts on here that can help me. As my work involves travel and presenting, I'm beginning to get people asking for a video conference instead of face to face due to Covid-19. I need to create a decent video conference experience for them from my home office, a bit better than a laptop webcam. I need to share PowerPoints and me writing to a flip chart and full length view of me (these meetings could last all day so need to be as if I was training in the room). Anyone suggest a set up that would do this?
 
I've just done some training with QA as a remote delegate and they used WebEx and it worked well
 
Was wondering more about the hardware. Are they cameras designed for this with remote zooms etc? Not sure what equipment makes this look most preofessional. As I have Virgin 300mbs broadband I should have rock solid connection, but trying to make it look professional and interactive
 
Zoom or teams

Check out the Lenovo conference system

But if you have a laptop the two above work great.


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Software in order of preference: Zoom, Skype, FaceTime (not presentations though).

As for hardware Logitec do range of stuff, but sounds like you need to hire a camera operator and vision mixer!
 
Why can’t you travel though?

You got more chance of being hit by a bus that catching covid


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We use them with Lenovo Conf teams systems but if you are planning to do draw on whiteboard and expect that to work on camera...




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Always had loads of problems with Webex dropping calls, lots of connection issues. I don't think you can beat Skype really. Zoom is ok. Microsoft Teams is ok too.

Logitech C920 HD Pro is a good safe bet for a webcam choice.

You can share desktop on these things nowadays which can be very handy.
 
Yeah, we’ve just moved to MS Teams.....
It’s ****ing me off already, amount of Engineers we have talking about the weather.......cat shat in the garden, keeping me up all night FFS 😂
 
Neil McRae said:
Why can’t you travel though?

You got more chance of being hit by a bus that catching covid


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But you still look both ways to reduce the chance of you getting hit by a bus when crossing the road.

Video Conferencing would reduce the risks of both catching Covid19 or by being hit by a bus - Win Win.
 
Well the bus stat assumes that I’d hope.

My point was more about creating more a problem before it’s required. Everyone panics and starts hording and cancelling **** before they have to and people start losing jobs etc. The world was teetering on recession I suspect this is going to push the world into it significantly and it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.


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Neil McRae said:
Well the bus stat assumes that I’d hope.

My point was more about creating more a problem before it’s required. Everyone panics and starts hording and cancelling **** before they have to and people start losing jobs etc. The world was teetering on recession I suspect this is going to push the world into it significantly and it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.


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Not necessarily. It's time that modern workforces caught up with technology. There's really no reason why most people can't work remotely other than lack of trust. Hopefully this will be a wake up call that we don't all need to be sat gridlocked in hellish commutes every day of the week.
 
Rob zombie said:
Not necessarily. It's time that modern workforces caught up with technology. There's really no reason why most people can't work remotely other than lack of trust. Hopefully this will be a wake up call that we don't all need to be sat gridlocked in hellish commutes every day of the week.
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Nonsense. The modern workforce needs to collaborate more than its ever had to in the past. Every study (and I was involved in three personally) done on collocated versus home workers shows an unsustainable loss of productivity in the home working environment.

Regards,
Neil.
 
Neil McRae said:
Nonsense. The modern workforce needs to collaborate more than its ever had to in the past. Every study (and I was involved in three personally) done on collocated versus home workers shows an unsustainable loss of productivity in the home working environment.

Regards,
Neil.
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I disagree, I run a small business and we all work from home periodically with no impact of deliverables. You also need to take into account employee happiness and work / life balance.

It obviously cannot work for every industry, but most desk based jobs it does.
 
JAG555 said:
I disagree, I run a small business and we all work from home periodically with no impact of deliverables. You also need to take into account employee happiness and work / life balance.

It obviously cannot work for every industry, but most desk based jobs it does.
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I tried respond to this seriously but its too ridiculous; instead I will remind everyone that you think Star Wars is a good pinball.
 
Whenever I used to work from home (for a large unnamed corporation that makes video games, consoles and VR headsets) I would go out to a cafe for breakfast with the wife and then basically work from 10am until 11pm. Compared to my normal office hours 7:30am till 4pm I think they did pretty well from remote working. And it was a damn sight more enjoyable than crawling along for 3 hours everyday in 1st and 2nd gear.
 
Neil McRae said:
Nonsense. The modern workforce needs to collaborate more than its ever had to in the past. Every study (and I was involved in three personally) done on collocated versus home workers shows an unsustainable loss of productivity in the home working environment.

Regards,
Neil.
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Do you have links to these studies? A cursory google shows robust studies at stamford and others that overwhelmingly show the opposite. I would imagine its industry specific, but would be interested to read up on more test results.

Rob zombie said:
Whenever I used to work from home (for a large unnamed corporation that makes video games, consoles and VR headsets) I would go out to a cafe for breakfast with the wife and then basically work from 10am until 11pm. Compared to my normal office hours 7:30am till 4pm I think they did pretty well from remote working. And it was a damn sight more enjoyable than crawling along for 3 hours everyday in 1st and 2nd gear.
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This is basically what was reported in the Stamford 2 year study. I'd guess its heavily dependent on the industry and individuals.
 
oh second way of working issue- how humans fit what they think is an acceptable "days work" into any time they think they have actually worked - thats another set of studies to talk about!

also I think your 4.5 hours saved the planet for years.
 
Neil McRae said:
oh second way of working issue- how humans fit what they think is an acceptable "days work" into any time they think they have actually worked - thats another set of studies to talk about!

also I think your 4.5 hours saved the planet for years.
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Now you're just ranting 😂
 
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