We only mentioned and haven’t yet explained a critical deliverable: less time in meetings.

Organizations, of course, establish their own protocols for permissible meeting lengths, participant selection or attendance mandates. Our contribution is largely in our software, which provides organizations with tools and options they haven’t had before. Some examples:

• When a meeting participant or leader has information to present, instead of awkward shared window or shared screen transitions, our presentation authoring tools use automation and guidance for quickly assembling a prepared presentation. That user can see talking points or a teleprompter script when presenting. Those presentations can be stored in an accessible library and reused. Also, the authoring guidance includes advice about ways to keep the presentation brief.
• A user who is presenting can (future feature) opt to include AI-recognized real-time feedback about the extent to which those in the meeting are engaged in what’s being presented, and the extent of positive and negative responses based on their facial expressions.
• A presenter can see how much time has elapsed and how much remains for a prepared presentation (as well as for the whole meeting’s “time slot”).
• Many meetings run into overtime when participants overly indulge in interruptions by clicking on a raise-your-hand button; our software can disable those interruptions – and where a raising of hands all-around is necessary for determining consensus, AI can (future feature) automatically recognize when the shape that each user puts in front of a camera is a head or a hand – instant scoring without counting delays.
• At the end of each meeting, our software can advise our user of the dates and times of next meetings as well as the meeting software to use when joining – across all installed meeting software alternatives which means fewer accidentally missed meetings – some of which will need to be rescheduled if our user’s presence or absence is consequentially significant.

Is it the time slot that determines the duration of a meeting, or is it the fulfillment of some meaningful sharing of information? Where it’s the time slot, we may not have as much impact on the brevity of the meeting, but we are likely to have an impact on the amount of time that gets spent preparing for the meeting. Where it’s determined by the need to communicate information, our software tools take most of the heavy lifting out of assembling simple to rich content, legibly and presentably, even for users with no experience in graphics or design.

Here, the integration of our hardware with our software adds contributions not available elsewhere.

Foremost among these is a presentation design that is generated and presented in a way that allows a full-time superimposed presence of the presenter behind the content.

Further, full-time direct eye contact helps the presentation communicate more effectively.