SmartFocus: bringing remote participants closer to the meeting room
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SmartFocus improves meeting engagement for remote participants with AI-driven camera switching and audio optimization.
ClickShare is introducing SmartFocus, an AI-powered feature designed to enhance hybrid meeting experiences by ensuring remote participants feel as engaged as those in the room. SmartFocus automatically adjusts the camera view and audio settings, making meetings more immersive, inclusive, and effortless.
A more dynamic view for remote participants
Remote attendees often struggle to stay fully engaged in hybrid meetings due to static room views. SmartFocus changes that. The new feature automatically switches between the room camera and the active speakers’ laptop cameras, ensuring a fluid, natural meeting experience. This allows remote participants to see both the big picture and key facial expressions, making conversations more interactive.
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Crystal-clear audio, optimized for hybrid collaboration
In addition to intelligent video switching, SmartFocus optimizes audio quality. By leveraging room peripherals, ClickShare ensures that remote participants receive clear, balanced sound without relying on a single laptop microphone. Voice isolation technology helps reduce background noise, while automatic adjustments highlight the active speaker, making conversations easy to follow.
No extra hardware required
SmartFocus is part of Smart Meeting Flows, a set of AI-powered, intent-based features designed to make hybrid meetings more seamless and engaging. By using the laptop cameras already present in the room, ClickShare enhances the remote user experience without requiring additional hardware.
“Since its launch, ClickShare has set a new standard for an excellent user experience and meeting equity,” says Oliver Van Camp, Product Director Meeting Experience at Barco. “With SmartFocus, we are expanding ClickShare’s unique capabilities to remote participants, bringing AI-driven innovation into BYOD spaces.”
Are you a ClickShare customer already? Enable SmartFocus in your company here.
About the author
Oliver Van Camp
Product Director at Barco
Oliver Van Camp is leading the Global Product Management team for the Meeting Experience business unit. Oliver is an expert in defining product vision and strategy and ensuring product teams deliver valuable products for customers and the business. Oliver is passionate about building a world of work where people truly connect, collaborate and co-create in meaningful experiences through the ClickShare portfolio.
Over the years, Oliver has built up experience in digital workplace technologies, product management, innovation and go-to-market strategies. Before joining Barco, he worked as Product & Innovation Manager and Business Consultant at 9Altitudes and Ferranti Computer Systems.