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Which way should I look?
Think about the whole of the room
Probably the best meeting layout would be a round table, everyone can talk face to face easily. The challenge is how to reproduce this when some people are not in the room but on a screen instead.
What if your boardroom table were square, with screens in the middle? Then you could talk around the table and see and talk to the remote people all without turning your head.
If you are working at home, its easy. You look at the screen, and that’s where the camera is, so you are looking at the people you are talking to.
Now you are at a boardroom table. You talk to someone opposite you. Easy.
Now there’s a big screen at the head of the table and you want to talk to them as well. you have to keep turning your head back and for beween the two places.
One approach is the MS signature room where you have a curved desk facing a large screen with an array of people along it. That’s great for the far end people and the people in the room. The obvious downside is that your room has to be much larger to fit the same numbers of people. That is not always easy to achieve.
If the table is long and narrow like most boardroom tables. Then you can get a similar effect by putting large screens on the walls on both sides of the table. This works best with cameras on both sides of the table as well. That way everyone can face the camera and face the people they are talking to.
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