Overview
What is Lifesize Video Conferencing?
Lifesize is a web conferencing platform focused on making video conferencing systems and video conferencing apps work well together, while still being easy-to-use. Their platform incorporates web conferencing software with meeting room devices and wireless screen sharing.
I recommend Lifesize Video Conferencing without reservations
A cheaper alternative, not sure if it's worth the headaches though
Lifesize Video Conferencing-a delight for online mode of meetings
Lifesize is a great tool!
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COO's Review of Lifesize Video Conferencing
Solid Video Conferencing... On a Budget!
The best video conference you will ever use!
LifeSize easy conferencing
Excellent video conference solution with great Pan/Tilt/Zoom features
Lifesize to connect Worldwide
Lifesize endpoints are a robust device with various limits.
Lifesize emerging as a key player in Video conferencing
Video Conferencing at it's very best! When sub standard simply will not do, Lifesize is the smart choice!
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Popular Features
- Desktop sharing (156)8.989%
- High quality video (159)8.989%
- High quality audio (161)8.989%
- Low bandwidth requirements (151)8.888%
Pricing
Enterprise
$12.95 per user/month
Plus
$14.95 per user/month
Standard
$16.95 per user/month
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Product Demos
Web Conferencing vs. Video Conferencing (LifeSize)
Features
Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
Features related to the performance, reliability & compatibility of web conferencing and webinar (online events) software.
- 8.9High quality audio(161) Ratings
High quality audio connection is consistently available, with few or no interruptions.
- 8.9High quality video(159) Ratings
High quality video connection is consistently available, with few or no interruptions.
- 8.8Low bandwidth requirements(151) Ratings
Software is optimized so that meetings do not require a huge amount of bandwidth.
Screen Sharing
Features related to remote screen sharing capabilities.
- 8.9Desktop sharing(156) Ratings
Presenters can remotely share a view of their desktop with attendees.
Online Meetings / Events
Features related to hosting and attending meetings and events online.
- 8.8Calendar integration(113) Ratings
Scheduling capabilities integrate with users’ Calendars.
- 8.8Meeting initiation(142) Ratings
Meetings can be easily initiated, whether they are scheduled or on the fly.
- 8.8Record meetings / events(112) Ratings
Meetings and webinars can be recorded for playback.
- 8.8Slideshows(97) Ratings
Presenters can present slideshows during the meeting within the web conferencing platform.
Online Events Collaboration
Features related to collaboration between attendees during web conferences, webinars, and other online events.
- 9Live chat(92) Ratings
Participants can use one-on-one and group instant messaging to communicate privately or selectively during meetings.
- 9Q&A(62) Ratings
Attendees can ask questions during the presentation.
Online Events Security
Features related to the security of meetings and other events held via web conferencing/webinar software.
- 9Participant roles & permissions(114) Ratings
Administrators can grant users different levels of access to conferences, as moderators, presenters, attendees, or participants. Permissions can be set for individual users, or based on user role/group.
Product Details
- About
- Integrations
- Competitors
- Tech Details
- FAQs
What is Lifesize Video Conferencing?
Some key features include:
- Interoperable cloud video offering
- Integrated, plug-and-play H D camera systems and HD phones for every room with automatic software updates
- Consistent experience across devices
- Search-based directory with name-based dialing
- Instant and scheduled meetings
- Schedule meetings from Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook
- One-on-one and group calls
- One-on-one chat and group chat in a meeting room
- Share your desktop or a specific application
- Up to 50 live participants in HD video
- Unlimited audio-only calls included for users and guests in more than 50 countries
- Record and share video calls instantly with Lifesize Cloud Amplify
- Skype for Business support
- Web-based app support via our Lifesize Cloud Web App
- Desktop app support
- Mobile app support
Lifesize Video Conferencing Features
Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software Features
- Supported: High quality audio
- Supported: High quality video
- Supported: Low bandwidth requirements
- Supported: Chrome compatible
- Supported: IE compatible
- Supported: Available for OS X
- Supported: Available for Windows
Screen Sharing Features
- Supported: Desktop sharing
- Supported: Application sharing
Online Meetings / Events Features
- Supported: Scheduling
- Supported: Calendar integration
- Supported: Meeting initiation
- Supported: End meetings
- Supported: Record meetings / events
- Supported: Dial-in attendance
- Supported: Online attendance
- Supported: Mute
- Supported: Slideshows
- Supported: International calling
- Supported: Multiple webcam streams
Online Events Collaboration Features
- Supported: Live chat
- Supported: Q&A
Online Events Security Features
- Supported: Participant roles & permissions
- Supported: Participant list
Additional Features
- Supported: Meet anyone over video anytime, anywhere
- Supported: Record and share instantly
- Supported: Continue the conversation after the meeting via one-on-one and group chat in a meeting room
- Supported: Invite guests for free
- Supported: Pairs with award-winning Lifesize Icon conference room systems
- Supported: Experience Lifesize Cloud with a free 14-day trial
Lifesize Video Conferencing Screenshots
Lifesize Video Conferencing Videos
Lifesize Video Conferencing Integrations
- Slack
- HipChat (discontinued)
- HCL Sametime (formerly from IBM)
- Skype for Business (formerly Lync)
- Microsoft Outlook
- Google Calendar
Lifesize Video Conferencing Competitors
Lifesize Video Conferencing Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
Supported Countries | Americas, EMEA, APAC |
Supported Languages | English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Japanese |
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(288)Attribute Ratings
- 10Likelihood to Renew24 ratings
- 8.2Availability7 ratings
- 8.2Performance15 ratings
- 8.4Usability37 ratings
- 7Support Rating49 ratings
- 9.1Online Training5 ratings
- 7.3In-Person Training2 ratings
- 8Implementation Rating136 ratings
- 7.7Configurability10 ratings
- 8.2Product Scalability18 ratings
- 7.4Ease of integration10 ratings
- 9.1Vendor pre-sale3 ratings
- 8.2Vendor post-sale6 ratings
Reviews
(1-25 of 26)- In the simplest form of Video Conferencing, they work for small meetings
- In some of the newer models, the video quality is pretty darn good if you can support the bandwidth
- The table-top phone/speaker integrates nicely
- Lack of features or options to integrate with other solutions
- Audio was just ok. If it was a meeting with more than 3-4 people, it seemed it was too much
- I had a hard time with support. They were not very responsive and felt like an up-hill battle at times.
We wanted to take advantage of things like a Microsoft Exchange calendar, a "Join Now" button and integrating with Teams. These are all things that our company made a sizeable investment on and in order to take things to the next level, we had to move on from Lifesize Video Conferencing.
LifeSize easy conferencing
- Office to Office Meeting
- Customer Meeting with the ease of connectivity, no software to load, simply open a browser to connect to the meeting
- Training and presentations
- Interconnecting to other systems
- The touchpad makes it extremely easy to join or start conference calls with a single pushbutton.
- The Lifesize solution is affordable and has been extremely reliable for our video conference calls.
- Camera quality is great and provides clear video for our organization.
- The pan/tilt/zoom features are very helpful to focus in on specific people or items during a training or demonstration.
- The unit is a little larger than we would like, but still easily fits onto most shelves.
- Changing the layouts on the screen (via remote control) can be cumbersome at times
- Additional microphones have a cord (rather than being wireless), which can be unsightly and a possible trip hazard
Lifesize Icon and Lifesize Cloud Rocks!
Our campus faculty, business institute, and other departments are looking forward to using the system in addition to dual credit teaching.
- Easy to use
- Low cost
- Easy to manage accounts
- Knowledgeable and reliable sales and customer service at Lifesize
- Access to Lifesize Community, which connects other Lifesize users/clients, and gives users the ability to request features directly with the support and development teams.
- Technical support that is second to NONE!
- More screen layout options
- Ability to customize screen layouts
- ability to store ip based systems as favorites.
- Customizable recording interface--ability to change and arrange PIPs as desired
Great tool for remote productivity
- Easy set up
- Addresses are in the system, easy to look up a participant and connect with them.
- Great audio/video presentation quality
- With multiple participants on a single call, the speaker's video is enlarged on the screen to highlight who is talking. Nice.
- On occasion, the video drops, probably our Internet connection issue.
- Sometimes we have to reboot for an unknown issue. That usually fixes problem though.
Lifesize is a great product.
- When you send out a meeting invite to an external contact, they are not required to sign up, it just wants your name and maybe your email address.
- The app on iPhone and Android work great and works seamlessly.
- Easy to train employees on how to utilize the service .
- The best feature to is that it allows any user to share their screen during a meeting.
- International users have experienced spotty/jittery sound and video.
- Connecting to meetings that are on different conferencing services is very clunky and not end user friendly.
- Being able to remote control the camera from a mobile device would be nice. If a change is needed during a meeting, the menu is pretty large and draws plenty of attention and distracts the audience.
- Great quality video both sending and receiving. This unit records in high definition at 60 frames per second, and the picture is fantastic if connecting to other Lifesize units with similar capabilities. The system also supports 1080p60 monitors, so the picture quality on our end is great as well
- Audio quality is excellent with the system's utilization of a room microphone for our conference room table. Other mics with greater mic radius are available, but I appreciate that the default microphone works well for our 12 person conference room
- The system has great compatibility with some of the newer web conferencing bridges such as Zoom. As many of our clients wish to connect via a personal computer, the system works great with the Zoom bridge as well as Lifesize's own cloud bridge (which I have little experience with but has worked well in the limited instances I've utilized it)
- The system sometimes has compatibility issues with older hardware, but there are far fewer instances of problems lately
- I have not been able to get URL dialing to work as the system wants to default to SIP calls when I do almost entirely H323, and H323 only seems to work with IP addresses despite not having a similar problem on my Polycom systems
- The web panel is Flash-based, so it requires an older web browser or some tweaks to Chrome to work properly
- Upgrades are difficult and expensive, but so far we have not needed to upgrade all that often
Lifesize - You Get What You Pay For
- Inexpensive compared to other products.
- Easy to manage.
- Support sends notices when they experience issues.
- Some sites drop calls often.
- Compatibility with legacy endpoints isn't ideal.
- Video quality is degraded at times.
Beginning Impressions - Lifesize Video Conferencing
- Easy to use
- Less "IP based" and more "people based" on surface
- Smaller product categories than other companies make choosing the right product easy
- Currently no view only mode for conferences via web browser
- Would like more roles available to be assigned to users rather than just admin vs. user
A Day in the Life of a LifeSize user
Lifesize not only reduces our travel costs (obvious) but it also allows us to maintain closer working relationships with each other internally, as we can collaborate on system designs, solve technical issues and just plain feel like we are in the same location.
And as an Audio-Video company who designs these types of solutions for our clients, we are able to truly represent the many ways that it has improved our business communications. Honestly, I don't know how we could function effectively without it.
- LifeSize endpoints are the easiest solution out there to use; having used most of what else is out there we feel that LifeSize really focused on the "keep it simple" strategy and it is greatly appreciated.
- LifeSize Cloud is a great product and it just continues to improve. LifeSize focused on the features they really matter and made them as resilient as possible, with the result being a platform that works every time for us.
- Working with LifeSize support reminds me that not every support experience needs to be like a trip to the dentist. They are friendly, knowledgeable and if they don't know the answer, they will always stay on the problem until it is solved, no matter what it takes. That's a rare quality these days, and one that is truly appreciated.
- I feel they are doing a good job with the current products, and I really don't have any examples of improvement at this time.
If you have a single location, everyone comes into the office, you don't travel and your clients are old-school and won't use video as well then it's probably not a good fit.
Best Video Conference Solution
- Clear video streaming
- Multiple (as many as 40) participants
- Invitations for non-license users to participate
- Meeting rooms
- Yearly license renewal (reminder from Lifesize, but have to go to third party to renew)
- Difficult for "non-power users" to navigate viewing of spreadsheets (most time is too small on screen, so have to assist them in navigating to enlarge)
- Would be great for person generating meeting to control muting participants
Great real time conference
- Easy to use for first time users - intuitive interface.
- Consistent experience - no embarrassing disconnects of other glitches as far as our experience.
- Conveniently connects users worldwide within seconds.
- Using the touchpad to look up users is easy and convenient.
- The limited amount of licenses owned by our organization results in colleagues having to connect as guests.
- Video pane placement in smaller devices can be frustrating.
- The app does not allow for a recently contacted list.
Lifesize solutions
- Constant quality audio.
- Adaptive bandwith quality.
- Share presentations.
- Easy administration of meetings and users.
- Touch screen on Lifesize device sometimes is slow.
- Picture in Picture (PIP) could be improved during presentations.
- Information about meeting rooms is wrong.
- When I want to invite other colleagues I have to write the address again.
Lifesize review from experience at Emerson College
- We used a laptop to host a Lifesize Cloud session at a remote location, the participants were able to join with ease on their laptops.
- Creating cloud rooms and dial-in instructions are really simple.
- In my experience the connection is steady and video quality is better than expected.
- The in-room control unit can be hard to navigate with so many detailed menus.
- Having to whitelist certain IP addresses on a regular basis can be annoying.
LifeSize Video Conference - En Experience you want forget
- The product is very intuitive.
- Probably one of the best speakerphones on the market.
- Excellent audio and video quality even in small bandwidth areas.
- I would like to see better interoperability with other systems.
LifeSize Video Conferencing Review
- Easy to use
- Fast
- Economical
- Cameras could have built in mic arrays
- Registering the cameras should be easier and require no help from the remote side
Lifesize Video Conferencing in Law Enforcement
- The biggest selling point for us was ease of use. The everyday user in our organization is not technical staff. We needed something that users could adopt quickly and easily with minimal training.
- The systems are easy to set up. Aside from having to navigate our own network quirks, the systems are very easy to set up and get paired on the cloud.
- Compared to other full systems, we think the price point is pretty manageable. At first Lifesize was making their Cloud system cost prohibitive but they seem to have reeled it in a bit.
- Their customer support has always been excellent. They are willing to go the extra mile to make sure you have a positive experience with their product.
- Most of the issues we have experienced have been because of our own network problems however we have had some random connectivity issues not related to our network. They are always resolved eventually.
- Lifesize used to offer a non cloud based option for video conferencing that, for us, would have been a better option.
- Even though their support is good, the assistance you get on initial setup is practically nil. They have a nice thick technical manual but we still floundered a bit getting the setting just right.
Lifesize for a Startup
- Very easy to find a caller and schedule calls for external callers.
- User management is very simple and integrates with SAML.
- Call quality is great. With multiple pops located around the world.
- Occasionally some stutters on the video quality on the end user side. Ideally, there would be a way to maximize bandwidth when a user is behind a home or slower connection.
- Creating external meetings could be a bit easier for executive assistants. Ideally they could do this from a web platform.
- Access to downlaoding the external client could be a bit more seamless and available from the main Lifesize site.
LifeSize or Not
- It is easy to share your desktop with others.
- Video is smooth if you have a fast internet connection.
- Guest links available to have non LifeSize subscribers to join meeting
- Named users in the account is not ideal.
- There is no way at least that I know of to pass control of your own computer.
- There is no screen mark up feature to essentially draw on top of a presentation for mark ups.
First experience with Lifesize cloud
- Lifesize provides very good quality of video and sound.
- Equipment is very easy to install.
- No major maintanance tasks needed.
- More possibility for integration with the company address lists like Exchange, address books, etc.
Lifesize Review
- Very easy to install and use.
- Detailed picture resolution and vibrant colours.
- Supports older video conferencing systems.
- Connects to systems via IP address.
- Support is a bit difficult to communicate with.
Lifesize - can it replace other conferencing solutions I use now?
- If you are looking to truly use the Lifesize infrastructure, Lifesize camera to Lifesize camera, works very well.
- Easy setup if you have just one camera to plug in. Super quick setup.
- Support is quick to answer the phone when called.
- If you are looking for something to replace WebEx or other platforms, this is not the tool. It's not to the level of WebEx as far as features go.
- Lifesize needs to better support the MAC hardware.
- When operating with more than 1 Lifesize camera and getting all of those in-sync, it gets complicated quickly.
- Provide onsite support for environments that involve multiple cameras and not just hand over a PDF to the end user that just spent 10's of thousands of dollars on the product.
LifeSize: Big Cooperation for All Sizes
- LifeSize is simple to use. Especially when using LifeSize Cloud. The ease of selecting meetings, conference rooms, or available users to call is really, really helpful.
- LifeSize Cloud's Single Sign On was a bit of a pain to set up, but now that it's running, it's amazingly simple to use and my users are already used to it!
- The presentation quality has been upgraded over previous versions and is now better able to show spreadsheets and other documentation that is often looked at.
- LifeSize updates their endpoints and user clients fairly often, meaning you're getting good security updates and software updates automatically, like you need to.
- My biggest gripe was that when we first invested in LifeSize (and later Cloud), it didn't feel like a finished product. Large changes happen fairly often for a fully deployed product and that makes it difficult to get out in front of sometimes.
- The price is expensive. While they're around the same range as their competition, with how far along the platform was when we started, it didn't feel like we should have had to pay as much as we did.
- We had to have numerous bad issues and experiences over and over again before getting a very high level of support. However once things started to get too bad, LifeSize did step up and address our problems with the fervor and dedication that we wanted and expected.
Save a lifetime of travel - Use LifeSize
- LifeSize is simple to use. Especially when using LifeSize Cloud. The ease of selecting meetings, conference rooms, or available users to call is really helpful.
- The presentation quality has been upgraded over previous versions and is now better able to show spreadsheets and other documentation that is often looked at.
- LifeSize updates their endpoints and user clients fairly often, meaning you're getting good security updates and software updates automatically, like you need to.
- Price can be expensive for the hardware and Cloud subscription. They're competitive, but not cheap.
- They try to push the use of their client instead of investing in tighter integration with an existing client like Skype for Business.
- Given the simplicity of their product to use and implement, the reseller channel often does not add much value, but they do add plenty of cost on renewals, etc.
- Scales easily and cheaply with company growth
- Provides high-quality full-HD video
- Deploys very easily
- Very easy to operate and support
- Lifesize would be even better if machines could connect by a name rather than IP
- Really, the only problem is that it works too well
- I wouldn't mind seeing AWS integration