[paranoidrobot]

This is what Cisco's conferencing software does, too.

When it works, it means someone can walk into an appropriately equipped meeting room, and the software on their machine detects that. The audio, video, and screen sharing all route through the meeting room, rather than the laptop. Virtually zero involvement for the user.

[aerique]

Very convenient but not worth the price to set up a whole corporate surveillance nightmare.

[Steltek]

Certainly with the Cisco system, not worth the money they charge for the hardware! Every room has a few $25 wholesale price Ikea grade chairs, a table, and then a $100k conference phone.

[paranoidrobot]

The units we got were like TV sound bar format, with a camera in the middle. About $10-15k each.

[paranoidrobot]

They are priced high enough that companies doing this are already hip deep in Cisco's world. They probably already have the corporate surveillance thing going.

[amelius]

What happens if someone records a YouTube video in that room, and that video goes viral?

[paranoidrobot]

I dont know for certain.

I recall that if you were not signed in to an account on their Org, it would only show up with you as that you were a guest in the room, and you could not do much/anything without someone from that org authorising you.

I dont know if the token is long lived, i would hope its rotated frequently.

i also suspect that because it's above audible range, your average video compression might strip it out.

[ridgered4]

I had to turn this off (not sure how it ever got turned on) because the Microphone indicator was on 100% of the time it was running (as it should be) while it searched for nearby devices through some kind of audio communication.