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Complex Chloe and Neat Pete are two characters Neat has developed with renowned UK illustrator Adam Gale to highlight in a fun way the ups and downs of video collaboration in today’s fast-paced hybrid working world.
There are three stories so far.
In our debut Chloe and Pete story, ‘Chloe Discovers How to Feel Closer to Her In-Office Teammates for Healthier Hybrid Working,’ Chloe is working from home on her laptop, muddling through meetings with her teammates who are back at the office and struggling to see or hear them properly. As a result, Chloe can’t fully contribute and feels estranged and out of the loop. Likewise, her teammates are finding it difficult to interact with Chloe.
Meanwhile, Pete is also working from home, but he and his teammates back at the office are using Neat devices and enjoying our leading-edge capability, Neat Symmetry. This industry-defining feature enables Pete to see his teammates equally close up for greater equity and engagement, despite him not being in the room with them.
Find out how Chloe and her team eventually thrive here:
How to Feel Closer to Her In-Office Teammates for Healthier Hybrid Working.
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Meet Complex Chloe and Neat Pete.
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Chloe is working from home and in a video meeting with several of her teammates back at the office.
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However, Chloe’s struggling to contribute. She’s unable to see or hear them clearly and feels removed from the conversation.
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Here’s how Chloe sees her teammates.
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Also, because Chloe is using her laptop, her webcam presents her at an unflattering angle, making Chloe feel self-conscious and uncomfortable.
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Here’s how Chloe’s teammates at the office see her.
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Meanwhile, Neat Pete is at home and meeting with his teammates.
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But as Pete’s teammates back at the office use a Neat device with Neat Symmetry, he can see and hear them crystal clear. Each of them is equally close-up on screen and he feels almost as though he’s in the same room. Pete is completely engaged.
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Here’s how Pete sees his teammates.
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At the same time, Pete’s teammates see him looking confident and relaxed, thanks to Pete using a Neat Frame.
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Because of Neat Frame’s eye-level camera angle, Pete’s perfectly framed.
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Later at their local coffee shop, Chloe and Pete bump into each other.
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Chloe complains to Pete about feeling out of sync with her teammates.
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Pete tells Chloe all about Neat, and how she and her team could enjoy more equitable and inclusive meetings.
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Back at her desk, Chloe contacts a Neat specialist at neat.no for advice on getting the best device for her home and her company’s offices.
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A few days later, Chloe is in another meeting with her teammates, but now she’s using a Neat Frame just like Pete, and everyone on her team is in symmetry, having installed a Neat device in one of their office spaces.
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Happy, relaxed and enjoying closer collaboration, everyone’s meeting experience feels more natural, and Chloe and her team thrive.
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That’s Neat!
If you’d like to chat with a Neat specialist, contact us or your channel partner.
Neat Symmetry presents Chloe’s in-office teammates equally close up, enabling greater equity and engagement between all video meeting participants.
In our second Chloe and Pete story, ‘Chloe Discovers How Neat Symmetry Enables Everyone to Enjoy More Equitable and Inclusive Hybrid Meetings,’ Chloe and her team discover the wonderful ways Neat Symmetry and its dynamic capabilities empower them to enjoy more equitable and inclusive hybrid meetings exactly like Pete and his team. Along with Neat’s advanced audio-visuals, Chloe, working from home, can read her in-office teammates’ facial expressions and body gestures better for a more immersive, life-like video meeting experience.
Neat Symmetry also instinctively pans in and out to auto-track her in-office teammates within their own frame, following them as they shift position, get up or move around. That way, everyone’s always seen and heard, helping Chloe feel like she’s physically among them.
Exciting news!
Our brand-new Neat Center companion device further empowers remote attendees like Chloe with 360° visuals and omnidirectional audio, practically giving them a seat around the meeting room table. Read more about Neat Center.
See why Chloe and her team’s hybrid meetings feel like being together in person here:
How Neat Symmetry Enables Everyone to Enjoy More Equitable and Inclusive Hybrid Meetings.
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Remember how Chloe and her teammates back at the office used to meet on video before discovering Neat? Chloe was at home and struggling to connect with her teammates because they appeared too far back in the room.
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Hence, Chloe found it hard to contribute. She couldn’t see or hear them clearly and felt removed from the conversation.
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But now, Chloe’s hybrid experience with her teammates has vastly improved. Since Pete told her about Neat’s pioneering devices, everyone has felt much happier and relaxed, enjoying more equitable and inclusive meetings, thanks to Neat Symmetry.
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By presenting Chloe and her team equally up close, Neat Symmetry empowers working-from-home employees like Chloe to see and hear her in-office teammates better than ever. Not only that, but she’s also able to catch any silent signals, facial expressions or body gestures for a more engaging, empathetic, natural video meeting experience.
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At the same time, Neat Symmetry pans in and out to individually auto-track Chloe’s teammates back at the office within their own frame, instinctively following them as and when they shift position, get up or move around the office. They don’t even have to be facing the camera. No matter where they are in the room, everyone’s always seen and heard.
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Not feeling rooted to the spot like before also means Chloe’s teammates are more alert and energetic, leading to greater mental and physical well-being and fresher, more productive meetings for all involved.
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Neat Symmetry can brilliantly capture multiple people in rooms of various sizes because Neat devices incorporate extreme resolution wide-angle modern camera technology – similar to the innovative tech used in today’s mobile phone industry.
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So, whether Chloe or anyone else who’s remote is in a meeting with one or numerous others back at the office, everyone will always be equally represented. Moreover, you can switch to “Thumbnail view” in larger meetings to highlight whoever’s currently talking.
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Neat Symmetry is helping Chloe and her teammates thrive, enabling them to feel as close as can be when not physically in the same room together. Just like the famous scene in A-ha’s ground-breaking video for ‘Take On Me. Another example of Norwegians championing bold innovation.
Neat Frame enables you to work flexibly from home or your executive office and in all other personal or shared workspaces. It’s particularly perfect for hotdesking.
Finally, in our third Chloe and Pete story, ‘Chloe Discovers How Neat Frame Enables You to Enjoy Less Cluttered, Higher-Quality Meetings,’ Chloe reaps the rewards of our first-of-its-kind, three-times award-winning portrait-oriented video device, Neat Frame. Delivering a unique and highly flexible solution, Neat Frame is the ultimate hybrid meeting tool along with Neat Symmetry. It’s a brilliant personal video device for pairing with your laptop or desktop computer, whether at home, in an executive office, throughout focus spaces and in booths or for hot desking – even for deploying as a virtual receptionist.
Whatever the scenario, Neat Frame offers a completely equal meeting experience for everyone inside and outside the office, elegantly residing in the smallest of spaces, thanks to its slimline form (a mere 8.75 inches across and 4.38 inches deep). Besides providing outstanding picture quality, like no other video device currently on the market, its 4x digital zoom wide-angle camera is at eye level. So, unlike your laptop or a traditional webcam, it frames you perfectly, making video meetings feel incredibly natural. See why Chloe is experiencing a beautiful way to meet here:
How Neat Frame Enables You to Enjoy Less Cluttered, Higher-Quality Meetings.
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Before discovering Neat Frame through Neat Pete, Chloe used her laptop for all her video meetings. Unfortunately, as shown in the above image, her meeting experiences were pretty grim.
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Besides its average audio and picture quality, the webcam on her laptop presented Chloe at an unflattering angle, making her feel anxious and uncomfortable.
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Not only that, but whenever she needed to read out a document to her team from her laptop or reference something, she had to shuffle various windows around to find the correct one, breaking her concentration and making her feel flustered.
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Then the copy she was reading either partly or fully obscured her teammates in her meeting window, making it hard for Chloe to remain focused as she could barely see them or lost sight of everyone altogether. To put it bluntly, her meetings were a right old muddle.
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But now, Neat Frame has completely liberated her laptop. With Neat’s pioneering portrait-oriented video device to her left and her laptop to the right, Chloe can easily read or glance at anything she wants on her laptop screen while maintaining eye contact with her team on the call.
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Moreover, because Neat Frame’s camera is at eye level, Chloe’s teammates no longer see her at an odd angle. She doesn’t see herself from a bizarre angle, either. Neat Frame presents Chloe in her best light, helping her feel calm and composed.
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Neat Frame’s integrated handle at the back of the device means Chloe can also quickly move it to another space if there are too many disruptions in the room. Because of its slimline form (a mere 8.75 inches across and 4.38 inches deep), Neat Frame fits almost anywhere. And we mean almost anywhere!
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Plus, the audio quality is simply superb. Compared to Chloe’s laptop, it’s nigh on symphonic – sounding richer and more immersive. With Neat Frame, Chloe can now catch every nuance of the conversation. So much so that it almost feels like her in-office teammates are in the room with her.
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Chloe’s thrilled with how Neat Frame enables her and her team to enjoy clearer, more flexible and engaging meeting experiences every time. In addition, she’s happy that Neat Frame scooped two Red Dot Design Award 2022 prizes, including a Best of the Best and a GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2022, because let’s be honest, who doesn’t love backing a winner?!
Look out for a brand-new Chloe and Pete story in January when Chloe returns to the office and catches up with Pete who shows her the superior power of Neat Bar Pro.
In the meantime, for all info on Neat, visit neat.no. Better still, book a demo to get the complete lowdown on how we can help you make the most of your Zoom and Microsoft Teams experience.
