What Is DTEN Inclusiview?

The world is moving towards more flexible and hybrid work environments where students and employees can take meetings from anywhere. Companies like DTEN recognized the many pitfalls of standard video conferencing software.

Since 2015, DTEN has been innovating solutions to help participants in video meetings feel equal and engaged. Inclusiview is the company's latest advancement, announced at InfoComm 2022. It aims to equally divide video conferencing screens amongst in-room participants so that remote attendees can see everyone all at once. Here's what you need to know about it.

What Is Inclusiview?

It's a familiar problem: You have a team of in-house participants speaking to a camera and one or more remote participants tuning in from afar. Who gets center stage? If you're using a popular meeting tool like Zoom, you really only have three options: focus on the person who is actively speaking, show every face in a gallery view, or zoom out to show the in-person group all at once. Each of these traditional views comes with problems of its own.

Focusing on just the active speaker can become monotonous, making video meetings less engaging. It also costs remote participants crucial context, as they cannot see other people's facial expressions or body language in the room. Meanwhile, giving each person equal space in the gallery can become distracting, and it relies on everyone framing their camera just right and sitting still. Lastly, showing a big group of people in a conference room can make a remote participant feel like a fly on the wall, creating a sense of distance and exclusion that no one wants.

Inclusiview seeks to solve all these issues by providing a new, innovative way to frame in-person participants that will make everyone feel more immersed in your next hybrid call.

Why You Should Use It

If you've ever felt your hybrid video calls could be more engaging or insightful, Inclusiview is probably the solution you've wanted.

Here's how it works:

• Using DTEN hardware, Inclusiview intelligently frames in-person participants to give them all an equal share of the screen
• With automatic tracking, Inclusiview keeps each subject in the picture, even if they move around
• By zooming in, Inclusiview restores the crucial context of facial expressions and body language to remote participants

Anyone streaming the meeting remotely gets the same context as if they were joining the team right at the conference table. Everyone is in focus at all times, but not in the same distant, stagnant way as a traditional gallery view. After all, Inclusiview also restores freedom of movement to in-person attendees. Instead of feeling chained to the table, as if they can't move or else they'll fall out of frame, Inclusiview empowers people to move around and gesture without worrying about if the camera can see them.

The result of using Inclusiview is that all participants — both in-person and remote — feel more engaged during video meetings. That's because they know that everyone has an equal share of the screen with the freedom to move, gesture, and express themselves naturally without waiting for the spotlight to switch to them.

Hardware and Compatibility

To use Inclusview, you'll need to purchase the DTEN ME or ME Pro. If you're not familiar with this hardware, it's a video and audio solution that's compatible with Zoom meetings and allows for phone calls, whiteboarding, and annotation. The hardware includes a multi-touch display with an integrated camera, microphone, and speakers, making it a turnkey solution for streaming your hybrid video meetings.

With the DTEN ME or ME Pro, you won't need desk phones, speakers, webcams, or extra monitors. The hardware contains eight microphones to pick up exceptional audio even in an entire room while eliminating background noise. Three built-in smart cameras deliver life-like video to remote viewers. Lastly, the hyper-responsive display allows for real-time collaboration, and other solutions from the company (like DTEN OnBoard) enable virtual participants to utilize the whiteboarding features, too.

If you need help choosing the right hardware for your use case, we can help. Contact our team at Hello Direct. We offer a massive catalog of new technology, including DTEN and Neat hardware, both of which offer their own solutions for immersive hybrid video conferencing.