Likelihood to Recommend Smaller conference rooms with room for about 4-6 people seems to be a sweet spot for [Logitech Meetup]. They also work well in smaller rooms where people need to move around and might use a whiteboard or something similar. Once you have a longer room or anything outside of what Logitech recommends, it still works, but the quality quickly drops and you're much better off with adding the microphones or opting for one of the other systems designed for bigger rooms.
Matthew Shaw North America Desktop Technical Services Manager
Read full review I find Polycom RealPresence to be useful when having one on one conversations in purpose built rooms for video conferencing. That is where the quality of the product shines. However, I dislike using Polycom Real Presence for any sort of content sharing because of the issues around resolution.If I need to share content of any kind, I prefer to use other teleconferencing solutions.
Read full review Pros Adjustable camera: Can point straight to the talker. Effective mic array: Can pick up voices really well. Compact and convenience package including speaker, mic and camera. Read full review Allows video conferencing with eagle eye view on the speaker Crystal clear audio and video with zero lagging and freezing Very fast connections to the conferences Read full review Cons Pricing is a bit high Setup could be a bit easier but that is more an issue with Microsoft than Logitech Would be nice if Logitech added a keyboard and mouse when selling the bundle Read full review Back end setup isn't very intuitive. Every now and then we get a delay when conferencing and using multiple features. Read full review Alternatives Considered While the other cameras offer similar solutions, we found for the price to features, the meetup met our needs the best. With the trio, we had issues with Poly's software which the meetup gets around by being able to plug directly into a PC. The panacast, while it worked very well, we would have still needed to pair it with the rest of the equipment for a full experience. With the meetup, we have only needed the meetup, the PC, and an iPad as a controller.
Matthew Shaw North America Desktop Technical Services Manager
Read full review Polycom RealPresence is really only the preferred teleconferencing solution when using a purpose built room for a scheduled face to face meeting. For ad hoc video meetings, Hangouts,
Skype , and
Slack all provide fewer friction points for average use cases. In fact, as Google accounts are nearly ubiquitous at this point, Hangouts has almost become the de facto standard for ad hoc video conferencing amongst our users.
Read full review Return on Investment Complete package including speakers, mic and camera. Read full review Personally we have not gotten our money's worth, but this is not Polycom's fault, it is because users found it difficult to use. As for me personally, I used it for video conferencing, but my job was to make sure that it was operational for video conferencing. As stated earlier, even though I found it very easy to use, my users did not, and as such tended to video conference with other apps. Read full review ScreenShots