THE WORLD’S FIRST ALWAYS-ON IMMERSIVE VIDEO CONFERENCING PORTAL
A platform that creates an extension of physical space for inter-office and remote teams
Video Window’s purpose is to create an extension of physical space to help employees feel more connected with each other as if they were in the same office. Ultimately the goal is always to help teams achieve their highest level of success possible. Transforming how teams collaborate, communicate and the relationships they form.
**NEW remote version of Video Window for home users now on the app store! Android and iOS remote workers can now use mobile and tablets to connect with the physical space!**
INSTANT COMMUNICATION FOR OFFICE COMMON AREAS AND REMOTE WORKERS - A BRAND NEW TECHNOLOGY CATEGORY
Video Window is different, it’s designed specifically for common areas, not meeting rooms. Designed to remove physical boundaries and feel as though you are looking through to the other locations…. hence “Window”
For remote workers too, they often feel isolated and alone. Using their standard computer, phone or tablet - Video Window gives the remote worker the opportunity to feel present and connected with the office and their remote coworkers throughout the day.
Always-on
With patent-pending technology, Video Window has been developed to remain permanently connected for the hours of the day the administrator sets e.g. 8am > 8pm, Monday
Lose the internet connection? No worries, as soon as the internet re-establishes we will automatically reconnect the device. No manual intervention required.
One Button Interface
Simplicity is essential.
No scheduling,
No URL’s,
No app downloads,
No user logins,
No addresses to type.
Just walk up and press the big button to join the audio. This is instant communication.
Human Connection
In 2012 Google conducted a research project to find out what made the perfect team. The highest performing teams were not made up of who was best qualified on paper, but that understanding & influencing “group norms” were key to improving a teams performance. For us, we see this is familiarity & why we created Video Window to help teams feel closer together & more productive, every day.
Join External Meetings
So we’ve built an external video dialer into Video Window that will allow you to leave window mode and make an external call to an external video conferencing service. The first integration available today is external calling to Zoom meetings. We have plans for Microsoft Teams meetings, Webex meetings and SIP video too in the near future, so watch this space.
Knock Knock! Who's There?
You may be unmuted, but what if the other site isn't? How do you get their attention?
We thought about this problem in a very human way. So we built a feature that allows you to select any site, then simply tap on the screen and it’ll make a tapping noise through to the other side to get their attention.
Whiteboarding, But Different
Collaborative whiteboarding is a must for any touchscreen device, but we wanted to think a bit differently. One thing that irritated us with other solutions is that once you start whiteboard it makes the video feed tiny. We wanted to keep this experience immersive, so like a real window we made our whiteboard transparent so you can still see your colleagues in full-screen goodness.
And sure, you can draw a silly face on someone too if you want.
Good Night, Sleep Tight
You can set Video Window to 24 hours a day 7 days a week if you wish.
But also we like to think responsibly and think about power and bandwidth savings when the device is not visible. So we created a overnight sleep mode that can be configured by the administrator so it’ll automatically turn itself on and off at set times. Don't worry though if a person needs to use the device during an off time, they simply touch the screen and it’ll come back to life instantly and reconnect ready to use.
Portrait mode you say? No problem
Video Window works in both Landscape mode and also Portrait mode. If you want to set up Portrait mode it's a simple case of installing the display on its side, adjust your display settings to portrait and the Video Window software will automatically adapt the layout. Yeah, just like magic
2 Core use cases
Team to Team Areas
For teams across locations that work closely together (e.g. agile teams) place the Video Window’s in specific teams area of the office to have instant communications, dramatically improving communications speed.
Water Cooler Chats
Place the Video Window’s in general common areas for colleagues around the world to be able to say hi to each other in an instant and feel closer togethe
Privacy - you may be worried that this device is always-on and pointing to a common area. Here are some privacy and security measures...
Opt in Audio
Even though the video is on by default, the audio off at each location for both microphone and speaker, meaning the only time a site can hear and be heard is when someone is physically standing at the device and have pressed the join audio button.
Audio Timer
Also we know, people will unmute, have their conversation and forget to hang up the audio. Don't worry, we’ve got you covered. We have a timer that will automatically disconnect the audio after the set time.
No Web Guest Access
Video Window will only allow other Video Window’s within its group to see each other and all Video Windows are always seen on-screen, no one else can view the video feeds, and yes that even excludes the account administrators.
Privacy Mode
If you are using the common area for another event and don't want that to be visible to the other Video Window locations you can manually set a privacy timer that will turn off all video/audio in both directions on the device for a set time. Once the time is up, it’ll reconnect automatically (audio muted of course).
