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Image: Logitech During the past two years, video meetings have evolved from all-remote, under lockdowns during the pandemic, to the current mix of remote and conference-room participants, as companies have adjusted to the new reality of hybrid-working practices.
This shift has highlighted the need for video-conferencing options that better accommodate remote participants -making them feel more 'present', rather than semi-detached observers who occasionally interact with a bunch of people sat around a meeting room table.
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Read nowLogitech's efforts in this area have included the Logitech Scribe whiteboard camera, and building more intelligence into video bars such as Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini. Specifically, Speaker View mode in RightSight 2 detects and highlights the active speaker while showing a picture-in-picture inset of the meeting room. This will soon be joined by Grid View, which tracks all roundtable participants, whether they're speaking or not, and shows them in a grid. However, this isn't ideal when the conversation is among roundtable participants, who naturally turn to face each other rather than looking towards a video bar beneath a big wall-mounted screen.
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Logitech considered 360-degree cameras, such as the Meeting Owl 3, but noted the opposite problem: when those around the table are talking to a remote participant on the big screen, a 360-degree camera shows people looking elsewhere.
Logitech's answer is Logitech Sight, a smart tabletop camera that works in tandem with a video bar, thereby catering for both key perspectives: the front of the room (Rally Bar/Rally Bar Mini) and the meeting room table (Logitech Sight).
Logitech Sight extends meeting room audio and video coverage by working with a front-of-room video bar.
Image: LogitechLogitech Sight's dual lens 4K camera has a 315-degree field of view -omitting the segment pointing towards the front-of-room video bar -and uses its intelligence to pick up and track speakers. Logitech plans to add Smart Switching to RightSight, to select the best view depending on the audio source and the direction in which roundtable participants are facing. With seven beamforming microphones, a 2.3-metre/7.5-foot audio pickup range and support for daisy-chaining, Logitech Sight extends the joint video bar/tabletop camera solution to cover larger meeting rooms.
Logitech Sight specifications
| Dimensions | table-mounted: 299mm x 169mm x 169mm (11.77in. x 6.65in. x 6.65in.) ? grommet-mounted: 291.2mm x 93.4mm x 93.4mm (11.46in. x 3.7in. x 3.7in.) |
| Weight | 1.5kg (3.3lbs) |
| System requirements | PoE power supply ? Cat 6 cable ? USB mode: Windows 10, 11, two most recent MacOS versions, Rally or Rally Plus ? Appliance mode: Rally Bar, Rally Bar Mini ? Logitech CollabOS (latest version) |
| Ports & interfaces | 1x RJ-45 (audio/video data over USB) ? 1x RJ-45 (Power Over Ethernet) ? 1x RJ-45 (daisychain - Rally Mic Pods or second Sight camera) |
| Components | 7 beamforming microphones ? dual lens camera ? Logitech CollabOS platform |
| Camera | |
| - Lens & sensor | 2x SONY IMX 415 + 3G5P lens (F2.0) |
| - Resolution | 4K |
| - Field of view | 180
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