We have clients who often say they don't want to see themselves on camera, they want to see the other people.
this also occurs in Town Hall events we run for clients, ie, they have several physical locations in the town hall, each location has a video camera pointing at the "local audience" (acting as web cam of sorts).
The people in these local audiences DO NOT wish to see them selves on the bigscreen, where we are projecting the Connect room.
]]>The idea for this came as a result of a training where the presenters/hosts were using one computer connection and the participants were all in one room at another location. They commented that seeing their video on the screen was a distraction and diverted their attention away from the video of the presenter. Layouts were switched back and forth between a layout which contained live video, chat, slides and another layout which contained two large video pods – one of the presenter and another with the room full of participants. It would've been very useful especially in the latter arrangement, for the video pod to have been sized up to full screen, but with participants only seeing a video of the other person/group.
I hope this is clear. :-)
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