Our beautifully simple yet powerful and reliable Neat Bar Pro, Neat Center companion device, and Neat’s recent partnership with Shure, the renowned audio brand, all help enable superb audio and video in large rooms.

One of the challenges with modern video conferencing is equipping large meeting rooms with technology that provides clear audio and video throughout the room. Granted, many hardware providers supply video equipment to cater to this need, but often, it involves a lot of extra peripherals, complicating the set-up and increasing the budget.

How do you deliver audio and video capabilities to large meeting rooms of up to 30 feet or more while keeping everything clean, simple and reliable and providing a cost-effective solution? Neat is edging ever closer to perfecting such a scenario.

Take our Red Dot Design Award-winning Neat Bar Pro, our most powerful video conferencing device. It offers outstanding audio and video with the most advanced technology. Its wide-angle, telephoto lens and image depth sensor deliver 16x zoom, enabling you to focus on details in large rooms.

When paired with our pioneering, patented Neat Symmetry auto-framing feature, Neat Bar Pro provides lightning-fast image processing to automatically frame, zoom in, and track everyone in the room. It ensures each participant is equally visible on remote participants’ screens, focusing on the speaker while also capturing the expressions and gestures of others. Neat Symmetry enhances your video meeting experience, making everyone feel present and engaged.

Direct stereo sound in large rooms

Neat Bar Pro boasts a powerful audio system featuring a subwoofer with two opposing drivers for vibration cancellation and three full-range speakers, which deliver direct stereo sound throughout large rooms. The advanced pyramid-shaped 16x microphone array ensures crystal-clear vocal pickup. At the same time, Neat Audio Processing eliminates garbled “double talk” issues and background noise, ensuring everyone hears every word. Discover more about Neat Bar Pro and how it can transform your meetings in large rooms.

Neat Bar Pro and its automatic framing function allow me to present products throughout our store to new customers online without help. The high-precision image quality means I can show them our subtle product or sample colors and textures like never before. Plus, the audio output’s so good that I can still hear people clearly, even far from the device.

Taiichi Kirimoto, Wajima Kirimoto, 7th generation

Extendable audio and video capabilities

Our Neat Center companion device further extends Neat Bar Pro’s audio capabilities and Neat Symmetry’s framing proficiency in large rooms. Housing a 360° 3x lens camera, a 16x omnidirectional mic array, and advanced AI that dynamically analyzes the room and everyone in it, Neat Center brings remote attendees to the center of the conversation. It enables them to gain a closer, more natural audio-visual perspective of their teammates sitting in an office meeting or conference room.

Even when people in a large room are far away from the primary device or facing inward, discussing something with others around the table, their remote teammates will still see and hear them clearly, making those on the far end feel less of a fly on the wall. Neat Center helps everyone enjoy enhanced context and engagement like you’re all in the room together.

Neat Center is simple to set up and install, with a single cable for network and power. Moreover, thanks to its highly flexible, self-calibrating design, you can position it anywhere in the room and ensure everyone’s always seen and heard. For example, you can place it on your meeting room table or hang it above, whatever suits your spaces or use cases best. No matter how you deploy it, Neat Center helps your remote and in-office teams feel closer together, making your hybrid meetings on Microsoft Teams or Zoom far more inspiring, productive and rewarding.

Additional Center mics in large rooms

We recently spoke about Neat Center with Luis Arenas, Manager of the Video Collaboration Platform at one of the US’s largest drinks distributors and a valued Neat customer, Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits.

Luis loved Neat Center when he tested it at Europe’s most prominent video conferencing trade show, ISE, in Barcelona earlier in the year. He loves the camera but particularly loves the additional microphones. Luis said that Southern Glazer’s wall-mounted Neat Bar Pro devices’ microphones do a fantastic job. However, adding a Neat Center on or above the table will enhance the sound for anyone sitting at the far end of the company’s larger 25 to 30-foot-long meeting rooms.

Southern Glazer’s is also considering using external audio with Neat Center. This will enable them to use Neat as the anchoring device in some of its rooms beyond the 30-foot range while ensuring everyone hears everything clearly.

We have some even bigger rooms of about 30 to 40 feet, where we think Neat Center will be a great fit with some of our off-board audio.

Luis Arenas, Manager of the Video Collaboration Platform, Southern Glazer’s

Blockbusting audio combination with Neat and Shure

The joining forces of Neat and Shure, the renowned audio brand, have extended Neat Bar Pro’s and Neat Center’s audio reach even further. You can seamlessly use Neat Bar Pro with multiple Shure Microflex Ecosystem solutions and add a Neat Center if need be. This optimal combination of pioneering audio and video innovation provides an engaging, entirely equitable listening experience for everyone, whether people position themselves at the front, back, or sides of any size or type of room.

In other words, those in the room and on the far end will both easily hear and follow the flow of the conversation. Simply put, no one will miss a thing! The combination of Shure and Neat offers simple, reliable, easy-to-install, equitable solutions that can be scaled to various rooms, whether a large board or conference room, auditorium or lecture theater.

Keeping it simple and modern in large rooms

Shure Microflex Ecosystem solutions allow you to deploy Neat Bar Pro with an optional Neat Center or two in much larger, more acoustically challenging rooms without worrying about people being unable to hear anything. Shure Microflex Ecosystem solutions deliver reliable, crystal clear, naturally sounding audio in various speaker configurations and designs to keep your rooms as sleek, simple, and modern as possible.

Better yet, you can connect whatever Shure solution you choose to your Neat Bar Pro via a single USB-C port, and you’ll experience blockbuster sound and stunning visuals meeting after meeting. There are no excess cables. It’s super simple. Watch our Neat and Shure Partner up for Larger Conference Rooms and Neat and Shure for Training Rooms demo videos for a more detailed overview.

Discover more about Shure and Neat.

Our integrated solutions can now easily be installed where customers want a front-of-room, all-in-one device and extraordinary audio coverage throughout their space. We are thrilled to provide a first-of-its-kind combination for large conferencing environments that will provide better experiences and more reliable collaboration.

Peter James, VP of Global Business Development, Shure

Using the camera on two devices

Finally, there’s Zoom companion mode, a feature that allows you to configure your Zoom Rooms for Touch device to an existing Zoom Room computer or appliance. It enables the Zoom Room to use both devices’ cameras.

For example, say you were presenting in a large room to people who were physically present while others tuned in over video. You could have a Neat Bar Pro and a Neat Frame or Neat Board 50 on its adaptive stand in companion mode with both cameras active. The Neat Frame on a podium or stand would frame you, enabling those on the far end to see you face-on and vice versa, so you could address them directly. Meanwhile, the Neat Bar Pro camera would capture everyone else in the room, giving you a dual audience and presenter setup. Discover more about Zoom companion mode.

As you can tell, enjoying simple yet powerful audio and video capabilities in large rooms is easy with Neat.

Join us for our “Bringing Clarity to Large Meeting Spaces with Neat” webinar on August 8 for unique insights, expert advice and a hands-on demo of Neat devices, experiences, and Neat and Shure extendable audio solutions.