--On Friday, July 24, 2015 12:55 PM -0400 "Scott O. Bradner" <sob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > and a always-paying-attention operator (for each room) to > know when to switch - potentially adding significantly to the > cost And "potentially too expensive" is the choice we seem to continue to make relative to "better and more useful remote experience". > fwiw - standing in a place where you can be seen by the camera > so that the remote experience is better without having to > dedicate a camera operator to each room seems a very very > small price to pay Agreed, but that doesn't solve either the chair problem or the floor mic one. Those can be mitigated by the chair walking into the box rather than sitting and running the meeting and by people at the floor mics getting a lot better at announcing their names, but the realistic alternative is either a lot more panning or multiple cameras and switching, either of which require human attention. john