Poly Studio USB Soundbar - 4K - built-in microphone - soundbar - small rooms

The Poly Studio USB video soundbar is a high-quality camera and speakerphone system that integrates an auto-framing camera, stereo microphones and stereo speakers. The professional soundbar is perfect for small meeting rooms and impresses with its simple operation and efficient use. In today's world, video conferences are an important tool for staying in touch with employees, customers or business partners. The Poly Studio Soundbar supports you in this and ensures a frustration-free video conferencing experience. The 4K soundbar offers you true plug-and-play and therefore the video conferencing camera can not only be used with just about any video conferencing system, but is available to you at any time. Just concentrate on what is really important to you and the Poly Studio video conferencing solution will support you sustainably.

With Poly Studio's room-filling sound and pinpoint microphones, all participants in your huddle room can hear your calls clearly and be understood clearly. Poly Studio was developed through decades of audio science and features best-in-class audio quality. As a result, you experience meetings as if you were really there in person. With smart features like Poly Acoustic Fence and NoiseBlock, Poly Studio automatically mutes participants and eliminates distracting background noise and other unwanted sounds. For perfect voice capture, the maximum distance of 3.7m should not be exceeded

With an ultra-wide 120-degree field of view that captures 4K UHD video, Huddle Rooms allow you to capture all participants in the image and display them on your screen in the best possible resolution. Automatic speaker tracking technology, which zooms in on the person speaking without the need for a remote control or camera presets, saves you the hassle of controlling the camera during the meeting. If there is no active speaker, the group picture function automatically captures all conference participants as a group. The camera detects changes in the room at any time, even if a person leaves or joins the room. Poly Studio automatically adjusts to the new situation, so no participant is left out of the picture and you don't have to worry about anything. As a USB camera and speakerphone, you can use the Poly Studio USB video bar for audio or video conferencing and as a speaker for your local devices. You can also use the Poly Studio as a Bluetooth device that supports audio calls and streaming music playback from a mobile device

For the first time ever, a USB device is able to automatically find and zoom in on the current speaker via speaker tracking, so that all participants know who is speaking and they are perfectly staged. The 5x digital zoom delivers impressive clarity. Plus, the 4K camera ensures crisp, lifelike video that brings your meetings to life

Poly Studio can be used on most collaboration platforms, including Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business, Zoom, GoToMeeting and Cisco Webex. This makes the soundbar easy to deploy and use in almost any video call. You can connect the Poly Studio USB video bar either to a permanently installed PC in the room or to a laptop that you bring into the room. In all configurations, the connection is primarily via USB, with an optional Bluetooth connection also possible

In addition, Poly Studio can be centrally managed for a smarter meeting experience. Instead of going from room to room to update software or change settings, you can deploy Poly Studio across the enterprise and manage multiple rooms from any location. When used with Polycom Companion software, you get advanced setup options, such as connecting Poly Studio to your Wi-Fi network. You can manage the Poly Studio USB video bar via Poly Lens, Polycom Device Management Services for Enterprises or via Polycom RealPresence Resource Manager over the Wi-Fi connection

The Poly Studio combines best-in-class performance and simplicity for small meeting rooms, so you can enjoy a higher level of productivity at an affordable price

Our opinion of this product:

In favour of the Poly Studio USB camera:

+ Compact soundbar design
+ All-in-one solution
+ Plug-and-play out of the box
+ Can be used with just about any video conferencing software
+ Barco ClickShare CX certification
+ Intuitive operation - no training or learning required
+ Impressive results in huddle rooms
+ Active speaker tracking works on its own and reliably
+ Easy management for on-site IT
+ Value for money is excellent

Things to keep in mind

- really only recommended in small meeting and huddle rooms. For more than that, the integrated microphones, digital zoom etc. are not sufficient
- only digital zoom available - however, with an optical zoom, a significantly higher price would also be expected