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I recently had the opportunity to spend some quality time with “Pano”, Polycom’s meeting room collaboration interface, and I found it a really useful piece of kit.
What Is It?
Netflix chrome app mac. Pano is an interface device that lets you share content from your PC, Mac or mobile device into a meeting or meeting room. You can do so wirelessly or via HDMI cable if you’re old-school.
Features and CapabilitiesThe Admin guide does a good job of summarising what Pano can do:
The Pano device provides real-time collaboration with the following features:
Setup
The initial setup experience couldn’t be much easier, and Polycom demonstrates it in a 2:45 video.
Just connect a wired network connection to it, and if you’re not powering over Ethernet, the local power supply. App mail mac download.
Plug in and turn on the connected screen/display.
I initially hit a small road-bump here, but thankfully the Pano told me the solution: it requires the higher-current “PoE+” standard, and my first-generation PoE switch wasn’t cutting it:
The top USB port is reserved for updates, etc, whilst the lower port is the touch-screen input connection (if your monitor supports it)
Apply power and the Pano will request an IP address from DHCP, which it will then show on-screen.
Browse to it from your PC and sign in with the default credentials of “admin” and the last 6 digits of the serial number – which, if you’re in the room, is shown on-screen at this stage.
From here it’s a simple process of setting a secure password, giving Pano a name and optionally providing some O365 credentials. Done!
In Use
When you first walk into a room, you’ll be greeted by Pano’s attention-getting animated idle screen highlighting the available connectivity options. Here’s a still of the final image it shows before it loops around:
Now you just need to connect a HDMI source or start beaming to it wirelessly via AirPlay, Miracast, or the Pano app (available for Windows or Mac).
I didn’t test the Office 365 functionality, but the idea there is that you can present content that’s stored in a OneDrive for Business account – although you need a Polycom Cloud Service account for this.
This screen-grab is deliberately “busy”, showing simultaneous content sources plus some screen-grabs (taken by Pano) in the content tray at the bottom:
Polycom Pano Wireless Presentation System
These images can be rearranged or dismissed with a touch or a click, but there seems to be no way to resize them. (See more on this in my summary).
When you’re done, the red “X” down the bottom clears all the local content and disconnects everyone:
ScenariosStandard Monitor / Projector
Most of my testing of Pano occurred in my normal day-to-day, with it sitting in between my laptop and my external monitor. Pano appeared to Windows to be a monitor with 3840×2160 resolution, which it neatly scaled to my connected monitor with a resolution of 1920×1080. I found that to be too small to use – that’s a “me” problem – and when I told Windows to talk to the Pano @ 1920×1080 it automatically reconnected at a resolution I could read.
There might be a tiny mouse lag when moving the mouse over the external monitor, but I doubt most presenters will notice (if it’s there at all and not a manifestation of my mind).
In this mode, Pano added a ‘title bar’ of its own at the top of the screen with its name, security code & the date. To maintain the correct aspect ratio it shaved a little off the edges, although this was barely noticeable. Here’s a full-screen demo slide, with the arrows touching the edge of the original PowerPoint slide, the black side-bars showing the inoffensive “shaved” bits consumed by Pano:
Without a touch-screen this setup is emulating a room with a projector, limiting the Pano to some degree to be basically just a content aggregator/switch. You need to …
… add an input device!
All is not lost! To the setup above I found I could add a normal USB mouse or my Wacom USB tablet, and it added the ability to annotate, edit, and easily now switch sources from “on-screen”.
Polycom demonstrates a slightly different approach in this video, feeding the Pano’s output into a HDMI splitter, one output of which is fed into a smaller touch-screen for the presenter to interact with, whilst the entire experience is fed to the projector.
You really want to be operating in this mode at the very least. Without an input device it’s like driving your Porsche with the handbrake on.
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Note however that just a mouse is still somewhat limiting, as the Pano supports multi-touch, and so the sorts of pinch gestures for zoom and shrink that you’ll be able to do on a touch-screen will be unavailable in this mode.
Touch-screen Monitor
This is your optimal setup.
When connected to a Touch-enabled monitor (or with an input device as per above) the Pano automatically adds a menu of controls along the left-hand edge. These are your usual ‘whiteboard’ controls for pen thickness, colour, eraser, etc, as well as on-screen help, save/snapshot and source switching. Here’s my same demo slide with these controls visible:
Competitive Assessment
I can’t speak authoritatively for the in-room a/v market, but I think Pano will definitely give Barco’s ClickShare a run for its money. You’d be hard-pressed to these days to have someone arrive to a meeting without a device (or an HDMI adapter!) that will let them interface with Pano – and of course the bonus here is that there are no ClickShare dongles to misplace.
Summary
I found it really easy to love Pano.
I liked:
I disliked:
CostPolycom Pano Pricing
An end-user customer should be able to grab one of these for ~US$2k MSRP.
References
Thanks to James & Horace @ Polycom Sydney for the demo unit.
Technical Note
The screen-grabs of Pano were taken by feeding its output into a Magewell HDMI-to-USB device & the video captured by Windows 10’s “Camera” app.
Revision History
28 March 2018: this is the initial post
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Polycom Pano is a wireless presentation system for sharing content from a laptop, tablet or smartphone via Miracast and AirPlay. Any kind of digital content, pictures, PDF, videos in 60 frames per second, app or just the active screen can be shown in 4K resolution on up to four displays simultaneously. Using Polycom Pano, several persons can bring their ideas together and combine content from up to four external sources. With a touch-enabled display, user can interact, annotate and use whiteboard functions on the display and put them into their presentation. With the usage of a web browser, software updates can be installed and settings changed to integrate Pano during a videoconference.
If the user does not have the latest version of Miracast or AirPlay, he can use the Pano App also with Windows 7 or Apple OS X to be connected wirelessly. Once the app is started, it connects to the nearby devices and shows these or the last ones used in a list. For Follow-up meetings the app can be shared in a group or room system supplemented by personal notes.
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