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from the coming-to-a-conference-room-near-you dept.
Google has announced Jamboard, a 55-inch 4K touchscreen not unlike Microsoft's Surface Hub. In fact, Microsoft's version of the interactive whiteboard concept comes in two sizes - 84 inches (2160p) and 55 inches (1080p):
Tools like handwriting and shape help streamline the process and worked quite well in my own hands-on time with the product. The board also has 16 levels of pressure sensitive touch and nice little animations that bring small things like erasing to life, as you watch the text flake and fall off the display. The system runs on a highly specialized version of Android that features a built in browser and Google Maps among other features, along with opening it up to potential third-party apps. It also has Google Cast built in, so you can also use it as a big video display, complete with speakers that face down into the magnetic tray that holds the styli and eraser. The speakers, from what I heard aren't great, but they're plenty loud and will do the trick with teleconferencing audio. You can also just use the built-in Bluetooth to run it all through a speaker.
[...] All of the collaboration occurs in real-time, making it possible to monitor the board on a mobile device with minimal latency. And once a project is finished, it can be shared with the team as a PNG or PDF. [...] The board can be mounted to a wall or users can choose to buy the optional stand. All said, it should run less than $6,000 when it launches next year.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @10:29AM
Things like this are good for scrum boards and the like. You get the physical action while maintaining the advantages of having everything tracked, recorded, and data mined (something you do want to do when managing projects). It also lets you keep everything in sync with another office if your dev team is split up or if one worker is working from home or whatever.
An internet connection is needed for a lot of that, but that connection doesn't (and shouldn't) be shoved through a cloud service. If they do that, then you're justified in whining about it.