It is designed to remove the task of note taking from the meeting experience.
FuzeBox has squeezed its online meeting experience into a new iPhone app called Fuze Join for iPhone.
The great challenge for Video conferencing vendors is to supply users with a meeting experience that equals or surpasses "in-person" meetings.
In a tight economy, you've got to do more and spend less," says Hsieh. "When customers look at this creatively, the key advantage is that you get that in-person meeting experience along with immediate hard-dollar travel savings".
Cisco is trying to improve and simplify the meeting experience with voice commands, and today it introduced Cisco Spark Assistant, a voice controlled interface for Cisco Spark meeting hardware.
It is assumed that when meeting experience will be good enough, or even better, the technology could potentially minimize the need for "physical" meetings (at least for business purposes).
Ultra HD-quality screens and streaming of 4K video-conferencing (which, by the way, is four times the resolution of your retina screen) can represent the ultimate meeting experience.
"Both the cost issue and also perhaps the fact that scientists at an earlier stage may have more pressure [to make] the most of the meeting experience" may dissuade them from bringing children, Tamagnone says, adding that smaller children "may not be happy to stay in child care for so long".
"With the Worklife team onboard, we see an opportunity to build on the virtual meeting experience that the Cisco Spark platform currently provides, and enhance meeting productivity across the board," Cisco senior vice president for corporate business development Rob Salvagno wrote in a blog post announcing the deal.
It's a full rewrite of the Hangouts meeting experience and will work without any plug-ins (and Google also promises that it will be lighter on the processor, too, and won't eat into your battery life or make your laptop's fans spin at full speed).
