 So welcome to Logitech at ISC 2020 so today we have a number of exciting new products and partnerships that we're going to talk about. This first product here is the zone wired headset. It's the first headset that's achieved the Microsoft Teams open office standard of certification and it's been designed completely from the ground up around the open office experience. What does open office do? So the open office means you know it's the modern workplace where many of us sit in open spaces you know it's great for collaboration but sometimes less good for concentration so the headset is designed with two noise-canceling mics one in the boom one in the ear cup it's also got 40 millimeter audio drivers so that means that you're gonna have great voice calls but also music so this comes from Logitech's heritage in music brands. So basically you can be in a noisy environment but you feel like this private. You're gonna have all of that background noise eliminated from your calls so you know we call the product zone wired headset and the reason for that is you know it's going to help you work in the zone. Nice. A nice braided cable and it's wired because it's also getting the power from the USB. Correct yes and it's also USB-C connector so you know most modern laptops have a USB-C connector but with an adapter to a what kind of price is there on this one? So it's going to be a street price of one to nine euro that's including VAT it would be in a similar range in Swiss France. So is it going to be pretty much the best headset in the market? We think it is because this headset is designed for the modern workplace versus you know traditional headsets are looking backwards so we've designed this around the three main collaboration applications Google Hangouts, Microsoft Teams and Zoom. So the product is certified for Microsoft sets the bar in terms of certification but it's also certified for those other new modern workplace applications. Some people like to be wireless you have a wireless but this is a different product or does it also noise cancel? Yes this is the zone wireless headset so it's the Bluetooth version we actually launched this about six months ago so in fact what we're doing is we're building a portfolio of these zone wireless headsets and this works with your RF dongle this is was that adding a Bluetooth? So it does two things you have a basic Bluetooth version but we have a plus version which works with the Logitech unifying dongle and what that allows you to do it's actually the first technology of its type it allows you to connect the headset the wireless headset with a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse setup so one dongle to manage all of your workspace. Does that dongle then have a different kind of RF for the audio so it's less lag than Bluetooth or doesn't do that? I would have to come back to you on that. That's just something I was wondering I'm always wondering because sometimes Bluetooth has tiny little lag. There is a lot of engineering going to make this work together and Logitech are the only company that has done that. To bring these two types of wireless technologies together. And so here's a big booth here the ISC 2020 what kind of stuff are you showing around here? Absolutely so I can just walk you through so what we're doing is you know aside from the personal collaboration we're showing our solutions for small meeting rooms. So here's a Zoom demo. Zoom is getting very popular with the meetings right? Absolutely Zoom is really popular because it's so easy to use they do a fantastic video conference in the space. Let's try to see if we can get it to you after. It's very busy right now. But this one is also... They're all busy. This is a huge thing with Google Cloud. So basically the portfolio is small, medium and large meeting rooms centered around the Logitech tap touchscreen device. So the touchscreen is integrated with your Zoom platform or Microsoft or Google. So that basically you come to the meeting room you just tap you're in your meeting. So there's a tap system in there. Yeah you can see it here maybe you have your tap touchscreen. Does it run like Android or what's the system on the tap? It's all PC-based so it's for the Microsoft and Zoom it's an Intel node that powers the solution for the Google Hangouts it's a Chromebook that powers the chipset. But it's an Intel chipset in there on both versions. And it runs on Windows yeah. Alright let's walk around the proposition is you know small medium large. Let's get to this one here so here's so this one is showing the Zoom interface and it's got some yeah we have a range of accessories that you can use to you know mount the devices as well either table mount, table riser or wall mount. And so it's an easy way to tap what you need to do and this is is it best in the market for this kind of stuff? Absolutely. So what we do here this is the Logitech Meetup camera it's the market leading camera for huddle works and so the it's an all-in-one device with speakers and beam-forming microphones and then a powerful 4k camera. And it even can tilt and zoom? Absolutely it can tilt and zoom. We've also integrated a software suite into the into the device called right side and what that does is it's integrated machine learning and AI into the experience so that instead of using your remote control the camera will automatically frame the people who are in the meeting. That's awesome. Yeah it really is so effectively you can get rid of your remote control and let the camera do all the work for you in the meeting room. Whoever's talking is in focus. Absolutely yeah. For example if you know people come in to the meeting room or leave the meeting room it will automatically refocus and reframe every 20 seconds. What's the price on that one? The meetup camera is around a thousand euros. And the tap? The tap is also around a thousand euros but the tap itself is sold as part of a solution bottle. Nice. But we're trying to make it really simple for customers you know give them a very clean portfolio of a small meeting room offering a medium size meeting room offering or a large. Do people use this camera to do like live shows streaming on YouTube and stuff like that? No not so much so this is a dedicated video conference for meeting. Because sometimes I wonder about the the sensor size and the quality of the image compared to plugging like a high-end kind of camera to the computer to have maybe high quality. So this is a step up from the 4k webcam. Well it's all of this integrates our 4k technology so it is the same 4k technology but from a lens point of view it's actually supersized right. And an interesting little fact that many people don't know is that large tech actually manufacture all of their own camera lenses. Wow. So we are actually one of the biggest manufacturers of camera lenses because you're pretty much a number one for webcams. Yes correct. Number one for mouse. Number one for keyboards. Yes yes I believe so. And are you going to be number one for video conferencing too? Well we it's it's a fantastic market opportunity because you know over the last two years there's been a real shift away from traditional let's say more expensive types of video conferencing into this you know our model is about providing affordable video conferencing solutions that scale to every meeting and making it easy to do so you know it's not going to be a major investment for any company it's easy affordable and simple to install as well. Because the dream is you want to pretty much feel like you're in the same room and if you can achieve that you save a lot of airplane costs right. Absolutely yeah so you know face-to-face is always great so for example at the show here we're meeting all of our customers meeting all of our partners and there's nothing that replaces that however you know for everyday meetings and efficiency this this video conferencing is a game changer. Do you need a hundred megabit upload for a nice 4k screen? Do you say ten? Ten is enough. Ten is enough. But can you go on higher bit rates if there's available higher rates? Yes absolutely absolutely but you know our recommendation as a minimum across the company network is ten. And this is pretty much like a soundbar so do you also kind of like feel we can hear the voice in the room it's high quality speaker. So absolutely it's a high quality speaker and something that we've done around the audio in the meeting rooms. You'll see this in our bigger room system as well is that we put the audio at the screen and what that means in terms of experience is that you look at the same place where the voice is coming from. You mentioned earlier about you know having an experience just like being there that's what we are working to on an ongoing basis so all of our technology improvements have that goal in mind to make it as good as being in the same room. Do you recommend 65 inch or 75 inch? It really depends entirely on the meeting room that you're looking to put. So we've seen many companies over the last couple of years there's been an explosion in the demand for other rooms you know small meeting rooms. I think one of the so the size will determine the size of the room will determine the size of the screen but one of the great things about this video conferencing is you can use your existing. And here you're talking about the Google Cloud so what is that about? Yeah so like I was saying in each of our conferencing solutions work with the major applications in the market so we partner with Google Cloud with Microsoft Teams and with Hangouts so whichever the customer application is whichever their preference we have the same. How would you say is the main difference between the Google solution and the Microsoft solution? What's the big difference? Do they do a bunch of similar things? They all do very similar things. Often it will just come down to what's the company's preferred application. Companies maybe with the G Suite as the company standard and typically then they will go Hangouts. Teams is really an all in conferencing collaboration solution you know including so many other functions as well as video conferencing and her Zoom then is a dedicated video conferencing and voice network. The Zoom is kind of linked into the Microsoft or the Google ecosystem and people might be using Zoom. It can but it tends to be more of a standalone but we also have customers who use both types of applications. I think the keyword in all of this is you know whether it's devices or the applications it's flexibility. And what is this machine we see here? So this one is our rally camera so rally is our system for medium and large rooms. And this is where you have again it's a 4k camera and you know typically this is going to be positioned at the screen at the front of a much bigger room so it really is a very very powerful camera. We've you know our customers even use this camera in an auditorium type of setting and if you look here you know on the show floor you can see the clarity of focus and the depth of field that you have with that camera. So it's got a perhaps a different sensor size and their different lens system for sure. Yeah it's again you know if you look at the size of those lenses you can see how it scales up from the smaller webcams up to the different sizes. What's the price on that one? The rally comes in two different sizes a rally bundle which has a single speaker and that's around two and a half thousand euro and then another product called rally plus which is a dual speaker for a bigger room and that is just under three thousand. So two nine nine nine. And this is the tap device? Something like a Chrome OS kind of system. It's kind of like Chrome OS in there? Correct so this is driven by a Chromebook computer and with the Google OS. So under me here you know what you find is the devices itself you know it's a very clean installation even if you look at things here like the microphone pad very sleek flush with the table it sits into the microphone pad all the cables are rooted underneath the table so you really have a very very clean installation. You have to drill a hole. You have to drill a hole but I think in the AV world there's a lot of drilling goes on. It's about removing the cable clutter from the tape. This can add more microphone array around the table? Yeah absolutely so you have the microphones the microphone parts can be daisy change up to seven covering each of them cover about a three meter range so you can get a huge amount of coverage in a large museum. So automatically it'll know who's speaking it's just a smart enough to know what's happening where and if there's seven different microphones it's going to pick up where it needs to pick up. So what you will have here as well is that right side capability where each participant in the meeting room is auto framed. So even if they're sitting in a bigger meeting room you're going to have a close-up of the people who are sitting in there and you know very very you know clear audio from all of those participants. It adds more and more arrays. What more should we check out? Can we go around here? What is this machine here? I can't speak to that. So it's your camera setup is there? We're doing a partnership with Avapore who do the large top screens. And again it's the integration with the zoom and Microsoft but on a large panel display. Over there. Let me jump in there. So what's happening with Barco over there? So yeah this is actually one of our really exciting partnership announcements that we showed this year. So Barco announced there's the Clitch Air conference a week ago and Logitech are very excited to partner with them. So what you may be familiar with the Clitch Air button, it's a very familiar experience for many customers and significant install base users. So what Barco are going to do is to bundle Logitech cameras with their Clitch Air conference, the Meetup which you've seen previously and Rally. So providing you know again meeting room bundles and this is the first what we can call wireless video conferencing approach. Because so what's happening is that our devices are fully integrated with the Clitch Air conference button. The user brings their laptop to the meeting. It's called a pre-year-old meeting. It will work with any application. So for example many companies have WebEx as a install base or GoToMeeting. It works perfectly with any of those. The experience is the user comes to the meeting room, clicks and immediately you're connected to the camera. So wirelessly? Yeah it's not truly wireless but it's a wireless experience. It's a wireless video conferencing experience. You get connected with your presentation, goes into the video stream? Absolutely yeah. So the user experience, the user comes into the meeting room, you just plug into your Clitch Air conference, they're good to go. And boom and whatever happens with that camera, is there an AI kind of thing that goes back and forth between the presentation and the video or something like that? Well it's driven by the application and by the integration between the Clitch Air conference and our devices. Alright, this is also good for presentations right? Absolutely yeah. Alright, and you have even more? You have even more here at the show? Yes, yes exactly. So the other big announcement that we have at the show is with Prestron. So if you want to come over this way, you can answer one more. Absolutely. Well I'll just show it here. So we just, yesterday announced a partnership with Prestron. So Prestron are the biggest player in one of the best known brands in the AB space. And of course they're known for their extensive room controls, integrated systems. So we're very happy that Logitech are now going to partner with Prestron on their Prestron Flex UC platform. So are you familiar with the Prestron Flex? Yeah. So Prestron Flex is like the UC engine in any meeting room. So it's powered again by Intel Hub. It has all of the connectivity and it basically is delivered on a panel that fits under the meeting room table. So what Logitech are bringing to the party here is an integration again with our devices. The Logitech Meetup, Logitech Rally, bundles around small rooms, medium rooms. And you know, Prestron has this experience fully integrated with all of their screens, lighting controls and so on. And now going forward they will have the audio visual devices integrated into their experience as well. So companies that integrate all this stuff, it's got to be fun for the employees to have all this tech around them. But also it's hopefully increasing productivity. Absolutely, yeah. So I think the Prestron experience is very much about a completely managed suite of applications. You walk into the room. In fact, even before you walk into the room, you're going to see on your scheduling panel which meeting is coming up next for you. All right. And we can just go inside. Can you stop for one sec? I'll just move the Coke cans away. They're not a sponsor of the video. Yeah, and so when you move in... Yeah, so when you come into the meeting room, you're going to see the Prestron touch screen panel as well. And again, this is integrated with Microsoft Teams or Zoom, both versions. So when you come into the meeting room, you click to join the meeting. All right. So you can see it connecting here. So you see the... Sometimes it's nice to put it under, sometimes over. Absolutely, yeah. What's the best way to really get the attention of the user you think? Yeah, it depends on the size of the meeting room and how much space you have to play with. So when you mount the camera on top of the screen, you can have a scenario where it's looking down a little bit. So we recommend for a meeting room where people are going to be sitting down that the camera is mounted at the screen level because then you're at eye height with all of your participants. The bus usually should be looking down on the employees, right? Possibly. Something like that. Is there any chance that you can have two, one on the top and a button and some kind of AI matches them? So you're actually looking straight? That's not possible. Yeah, we're not doing that at the moment. We do have a similar kind of experience. So if you'd like to hear about that. So with Microsoft, we'll go next door. Let's go there. We're busy. Yeah, there's a meeting going on in there. So you can see there up high on the ceiling. It's called an Ikron extender, which has a little webcam attached to it. On the other side of the wall, you can see a whiteboard, traditional whiteboard. This is a feature that's enabled in Microsoft Teams. It's called a whiteboard content camera. And Logitech Rio is one of the two cameras that are approved for that application. What it does is basically capture content from a whiteboarding session. Just drawing. It's not interactive, but it will capture that content and integrate it into the Teams meeting that you're having. So for example, engineers, designers who like to write a lot, they're going to love this experience. All right. Thanks. Usually people are not supposed to film into meetings, but here you're just demonstrating, right? It's not actually a real meeting. Cool. All right. So thanks a lot. And ISE 2020 is a bigger and bigger deal for Logitech, right? Absolutely. So every year we've been here, it's got bigger and bigger. We had a couple of scours with the travel issues and coronavirus this week. But I think everybody got here. On the second day, it's really busy and it's been a great show so far.