Logitech MeetUp vs. Polycom RealPresence Immersive Studio

The Logitech MeetUp thrives in a huddle / small room environment. The fish-eye lens on the camera has a very wide range of vision and allows participants to sitting close to the screen. The mic array does a good job picking up voices and the speaker has a balanced tone and sufficient volume. Not suitable for larger rooms. The Rally would be a better solution.

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Polycom RealPresence Immersive Video Conferencing is perfect for an organization with different offices all over the world and this comes from first hand experience. It is well suited for an organization that relies on video conferencing to video chat with clients that also use Polycom. It would not be well suited for a company that could make do with a cheaper solution, i.e. Skype or Zoom.

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• Microphone pick-up. Sounds as good as a microphone on the table
• Camera quality is fantastic and the software does a great job of correcting for the fisheye effect
• Connectivity is easy and fast

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• Small Conference Rooms
• Ad-Hock Meetings
• Scheduler Room Reservation

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• Difficult finding the appropriate software for additional features on the Logitech website.
• Video quality not great for participants sitting more than a couple of metres away.

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• Affordable support package
• Though they are the best it's not easy procuring product
• All in one cloud solutions

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It is fairly easy to set up and use both for the administrator and the end user.

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While the other cameras offer similar solutions, we found for the price to features, the meetup met our needs the best. With the trio, we had issues with Poly's software which the meetup gets around by being able to plug directly into a PC. The panacast, while it worked very well, we would have still needed to pair it with the rest of the equipment for a full experience. With the meetup, we have only needed the meetup, the PC, and an iPad as a controller.

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Polycom RealPresence is really only the preferred teleconferencing solution when using a purpose built room for a scheduled face to face meeting. For ad hoc video meetings, Hangouts, Skype, and Slack all provide fewer friction points for average use cases. In fact, as Google accounts are nearly ubiquitous at this point, Hangouts has almost become the de facto standard for ad hoc video conferencing amongst our users.

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• Reduced internet bandwidth across a single site since everyone is joining the meeting from one device.
• Reduced travel time allowing others to join the meeting instead of driving to it.
• Increased efficiency allowing everyone in the meeting to share a file and interact with it.

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• It makes conferencing with our team members in Ireland, India, and Peru much easier and more cost effective.

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