The meeting owl

A new American company presents the meeting Owl, a 360-degree camera with speaker that automatically focuses on a speaker in a space during a meeting.

The 'Meeting Owl' was presented Wednesday. The device was created by the US startup Owl Labs, with an investment of Playground, the capital investment company of Android founder Andy Rubin.

The Meeting Owl is a smart owl speaker, on top of a 360 degree camera. The robot camera focuses the image on the person who speaks, for example at a meeting table. Services like Google Hangouts do the same, but with people who are not in a room. The owls camera works with existing services like Skype.

Owl-shaped camera

The owl-shaped camera connects to Wi-Fi and has a 360 degree camera at the top with a resolution of 1280 by 720 pixels. There are also eight microphones and the device can be connected to a computer or monitor via usb. The Meeting Owl works with a modified version of Android and is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor.

Orders for the Meeting Owl can be placed from now, but in limited edition and only in the United States. The camera costs $ 799.