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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Logitech for business BCC 950 conference can now it comes in a very plain brown box because this is not all about the you know the fancy-pants packaging that've that a retail oriented SKU would would be focused on but this is all about the functionality enabled by this device and some of the really cool software applications that it can be integrated with so they say right on the package that it's optimized for Microsoft Lync Microsoft Lync is more than just sort of a regular consumer chat client it is it like an enterprise-grade chat client so it allows you to use things like instant messaging so this were used to things like just sort of person-to-person messaging this we're used to conference video messaging this we're used to but it also integrates with entire room video conference systems all the way down to the webcam built into your notebook it also has a lot of collaborative sharing stuff so it's integrated with things like OneNote so you can collaborate on that as you go while you're giving presentations in Microsoft Lync you can you know play a PowerPoint with sound and it'll work and so it works with I think it's I think link does up to 720p but this particular webcam is 1080p so if you wanted to use it with a different client then that would be fine due to the recent acquisition of Skype Microsoft Lync is also fully integrated with that so there's a lot of really really neat stuff you can do but what is the actual usage case for something like this and why is video collaboration so important I guess are the real questions that you may or may not be asking yourself so as companies I don't know outsource to different places or as they you know spread out and have larger campuses as they grow you need to still find ways to collaborate that don't involve getting in a plane and traveling somewhere because it's extremely expensive and very inefficient the amount of time that gets wasted sitting on planes is absolutely ridiculous so it's not that easy to take something like a notebook which has you know a very narrow angle lens on its webcam and it's usually not the highest-quality thing in the world although I'm not specifically picking on this notebook it was just the nearest one sitting here so crowding people around it to give a presentation or whatever else isn't isn't necessarily practical so this aims to bridge the gap between something like a full room conference system and something like the cheesy webcam that's built into your notebook so I'm just going to show you guys how it assembles and why it comes with a remote I think the remote is actually one of the coolest things about it so we go ahead a little stick that goes right here oh yeah it has a fully built-in speakerphone so that's that's neat as well because it's sort of a one-piece thing that fits in the middle of a conference room and then you don't actually have to have anything else sitting there I mean it looks sort of space-age and cool and then like the conference room at the at a place where I used to work there's like a speakerphone and then there's like sort of a random notebook there and then there's like another device and then and we're not even set up for for video conferencing yet so this guy right here replaces all of that stuff and then you can even use you don't have to use Lync because it's just a standard web cabinet uses h.264 encoding for video so it'll work just you can use it with anything whether it's FaceTime works with Apple and Windows whether it's Skype itself whether it is something more advanced like Microsoft Lync or Cisco's sharing software let's go ahead and plug it in just for lulz okay so let's do a quick product tour here there's volume up and down mute hang-up start call that's for the speakerphone functionality here zoom in zoom out as well as rotational functionality and then what you'll notice here is on the remote all that is built-in as well so you can answer and terminate calls zoom in zoom out move it around control volume and mute things so the remote is sort of the magical part because being able to move the camera from one person to another from one angle to another allows you to basically be sitting in front of it going okay you know blah blah blah blah blah blah blah but then I've also got this thing on the wall over there that I'd like you to look at so go ahead and look at that zoom in you got your computer sitting next to you anyway so you're monitoring what vacancy is pretty much any chat client ever supports that and that's the scenario so basically it's a high quality webcam that's mounted to an arm that turns around goes up and down zooms in and out and has an integrated high quality speakerphone I think that if you don't see the application of this then you're probably not one of the people who could benefit from it but something like this can be easily deployed in something like I mean you know smaller organizations don't necessarily have eight different full-size conference rooms with full video conferencing built-in you know $500,000 thing so this allows you to take any small little office put a desk in it put you know a couple wiring jacks into it and turn it into a video conference room because you just put like a whiteboard on the wall you have one of these on the desk you have like sort of three or four people sitting around it and it's usable that way so I hope that pretty much covers everything you'd like to know about it there's also a headphone jack just in case you wanted to use that the whole thing plugs in via USB so there's nothing sort of unexpected there and slicks sort of telling me something oh it looks like you don't have to use the stick maybe that's what he's telling me so if you don't want the height adjust and you're just going to use it on your desk and you just want something that's sort of a fully integrated speakerphone webcam thing then that's an option as well I didn't even I didn't even notice that okay it still moves side to side oh oh probably yeah it probably still moves up and down in side to side that's very cool well there you go don't forget to subscribe Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos it kind of reminds me of the guy from not Star Wars a new hope they've had the thing that comes out of the swamp when they get pushed into the garbage compactor it's like do two and then it just goes down you