Room for Zoom

2021: Announcement of videoconferencing capsule for offices

In mid-October 2021, Zoom and HP Inc., as well as the manufacturer of Room office telephone booths, presented a videoconferencing capusula for offices. A modular booth called Room for Zoom includes soundproofing walls, a height-adjustable table, built-in lighting, quiet fans for space ventilation and a computer from HP. There is also a HD webcam and Zoom Rooms inside, which allows users to quickly connect their accounts to conference equipment in the conference room.

We want to do everything that is best for our customers, so if they are happy to be completely remote, then we want to support it, and if they want to come to the office, then we must have offers for this, "says Zoom solutions architect Ty Buell.

Room for Zoom Video Conferencing Capsule

Zoom's collaboration with New York-based Room, formerly registered as Phoneboots, began after customers began asking Room for products intended for video calls. Among other companies that sell booths designed for video conferencing in a common workspace: PoppinPod, Pillar, Urban Office, Hush, Framery. Room, meanwhile, advertises its cabin as specially designed for Zoom.

It may have once been convenient for workers to receive phone calls in the presence of colleagues sitting at open-plan tables, but the visual components of video calls and privacy questions about who or what can be seen in the background are forcing more people to go to meeting rooms. Regular telephone booths and meeting rooms are not designed for video calls. Lighting in standard booths is often too dark or too bright, and sound in large rooms can be quiet or echoed. Room collects cabins in customer offices at a price of $17 thousand, complete with a computer, lighting and other equipment, but excluding assembly and delivery.^[1]

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