Spark is where people can meet, message, do voice and video calls. Teams meet in Spark rooms to better collaborate with one another. In Spark in VR, these teams can now meet in a virtual room, complete with coffee mugs and whiteboards. Photo courtesy of Cisco

San Jose, Calif., USA – November 02, 2017

By Stephanie Chan,
Editorial and Video Producer for Cisco's technology news site The Network


This year, Daylight Saving Time will come on Nov 5th at 2AM - a reminder for everyone to turn their clocks back.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2017/10/26/daylight-savings-time-2017-when-time-changes/802563001/  

Cisco Spark Room Bring more intelligence and usability to small, medium, and large video-collaboration rooms with Cisco Spark Room 55, Spark Room 70, and Cisco Spark Room Kits. Room 55 and Room 70 are fully integrated systems for small to large rooms. Add a display to the Room Kits to create solutions for any room. Deploy both on-premises or in the cloud. Photo courtesy of Cisco

It's the time of the year for everyone to "fall back", to have the possibility of one extra hour on one day in exchange for earlier sunsets and sunrises.

So what will most be up to during their one extra hour?

Some will get another coveted hour of sleep.

For others, it is a chance for even more work productivity.

Cisco Spark Room 70 in large conference room. Photo courtesy of Cisco

Thankfully, Cisco is an expert in the world of the hard-worker and sees a future where we can all maximize productivity.

The company's Emerge team is focused on changing the way people work.

http://emerge.cisco.com/  

Cisco Spark Assistant - the world’s first enterprise-ready voice assistant specifically designed for meetings. Photo courtesy of Cisco

The team, created in 2014 and lead by Senior Director Andy Payne, experiments with things outside of Cisco's product portfolio to create tools that help people become more efficient.

Their focus on collaboration tools helps people from around the world work better together.

Smart meetings Bring intelligent views to every room. Discreet, integrated cameras provide ideal framing of participants and active speaker tracking. The systems wake when you walk into the room, and you can use your personal device to control them. Photo courtesy of Cisco

One of their latest experimental tools is Spark in VR, a virtual reality system that puts Cisco's messaging tool – Spark - into a new world.

Spark is where people can meet, message, do voice and video calls.

Teams meet in Spark rooms to better collaborate with one another.

In Spark in VR, these teams can now meet in a virtual room, complete with coffee mugs and whiteboards.

Smart presentations See your content in 4K resolution and share it over a wired or wireless connection. With support for dual screens, you can even share two content resources in local meetings. Photo courtesy of Cisco

The collaboration tool has plenty of new updates to keep one occupied for an extra hour or more.

The team behind Spark just released Cisco Spark Room 70, the company's flagship video collaboration device.

https://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/cisco-spark-room-70  

Smart rooms The Cisco Spark Room Series can count meeting participants and provide analytics for usage and resource planning. Features include automatic screen integration and in-room control, so you can start up your video meeting easily and quickly. Photo courtesy of Cisco

This combines people, content, and AI with a powerful coded, a quad camera, and a 70-inch single or dual display.

This new device is perfect for rooms that seat up to 14 people.

Another innovation in the world of collaboration is Spark Assistant, a virtual assistant for meetings.

https://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/meet-cisco-spark-assistant  

Run in the cloud or on-premises. Room Series devices are hardware-optimized to run on a cloud platform but are also built for on-premises environments. They offer great experiences for shared rooms and spaces with easy access to hosted conferences. Photo courtesy of Cisco

This bot can keep you up-to-date for when you need to join your next call, it can help you record meetings and write down action items with a single command.

This enterprise-ready voice assistant uses MindMeld technology in the Cisco Spark platform to enable cognitive abilities like starting meetings, join and leave meetings, call anyone in the organization, and navigate Cisco Spark devices.

Photo courtesy of Cisco

With so many new tools and updates Cisco has for the future of work, you can look forward to better and more efficient collaboration with your teammates.

Learn more about the future of work here

https://blogs.cisco.com/tag/future-of-work  


Stephanie Chan

Stephanie Ellen Chan is the Editorial and Video Producer for Cisco's technology news site The Network.

Stephanie Chan Photo courtesy of Cisco

She is a passionate storyteller who loves writing about culture, media, art, and technology.

In addition to her love of writing, Stephanie has expertise with content creation and brand advising, as well as regularly speaking at events about her experience with brand newsrooms and social media.

Prior to her time at Cisco, Stephanie interned at Marie Claire and worked as the editorial producer for tech publication ReadWrite.


Source: Cisco

https://newsroom.cisco.com/  



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