However, with people now returning to the office as Covid-19 restrictions start to relax, it would be an excellent addition to your office video conferencing room and well worth the price to level up your business’s video conference game.Whether you work in marketing, media, or mergers and acquisitions, it’s easier than ever to be a remote employee. It’s a business tool, and it costs $999 for a reason, and that does price it out of the range of most remote workers looking for a webcam and who don’t need all the bells and whistles the Meeting Owl brings to the table.
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Owl Labs made a fantastic device, and it’s a significant upgrade over your typical webcam and most conference room cameras that can’t compete with its native feature set. The Meeting Owl Pro is a conference room camera that an individual remote worker can also use but, it's truly meant for group use. It is a fantastic feature that makes video conferencing more inclusive.
The Meeting Owl Pro individually frames out different speakers and even provides a 360-degree panoramic view of the entire room and individuals participating in the meeting. It will make you wonder how many cameras are there inside the unit. Like Zoom, it will switch from speaker to speaker, but the Owl Pro does so in a much more user-friendly way as it will frame the new speaker separately from the rest of the group. It will even automatically make minor adjustments to camera angle if one person is taller than the other. The Owl Intelligence System does a fantastic job of instantly changing focus from one speaker to the next. There is also a meeting analytics report that helps you keep track of how many meetings you've had, how long they've lasted, and can inform you as to which are your busiest and least busy days. You can manually adjust where the camera is focused, zoom options, and turn on the noise canceling from the app. However, if you wish, you can set it up via the smartphone application, which you can download from your appropriate app store. Setting it up took seconds I just plugged it into my USB-Type A port and started a Google Meet and in settings chose the Meeting Owl Pro as my camera, and it just worked, beautifully and instantaneously.
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The Meeting Owl Pro is a true plug-and-play camera on both Mac OS and Windows 10. The Owl Pro speakers also reproduce very clear vocals from whomever you’re talking to on the other side. The three built-in speakers on the Meeting Owl Pro work great, and although I wouldn’t suggest you use them to throw a party, they do produce some solid bass.
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The Meeting Owl pro has noise cancelation that you can select in the phone app available for download in both the Apple and Android app stores. It did an excellent job of capturing the voice of individual speakers and using its Owl Intelligence system powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 processor. The Meeting Owl pro comes with eight built-in microphones that picked up my voice excellently even when I was ten away from the unit and speaking at an average level. Also, the autofocus software is fantastic as it will quickly recognize the voice of the current speaker and focus on them. If you’re using it up close in a tiny space, you get no wide-angle distortion which you will find on some other conference room camera units. The video images are crystal clear, and they will automatically adjust to the current lighting seamlessly, which is impressive.
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The Meeting Owl Pro comes with a 360-degree 1080p FHD camera that works excellent and reproduces warm saturated colors and very accurate skin tones. When I opened the drapes to included my significant other, it adjusted quickly to included the rest of our space and included her in the video.
Though designed for a conference room filled with others, The Owl Intelligence System with autofocus and Smart Zooming functionality did a fine job with my small space. It’s not intended for small spaces, but it worked fantastically in my tiny draped-off home office space. The Meeting owl Pro is a conference room or large room camera in a user-friendly form factor.