HP announces Halo

Halo studios create the effect of being in the same room. The soothing wall colors, natural lighting, and furniture are the same whether it's a Halo studio in New York, Milan or Tokyo.
 
Because many meetings require some sort of 'show and tell,' whether slides or product samples, Halo includes a way to share what's on your laptop or your tabletop with amazing clarity and detail. The high-definition collaboration screens display the same data or images simultaneously in both Halo studio locations.
 
Need to see the stitching on the prototype sneaker the factory is showing you so you can give the go-ahead to start production before your competitors? You can, thanks to the overhead high-resolution, high-magnification zoom camera.

Want to share the circuit design you just thought of and sketched on your napkin? No problem. Is that a croissant the product manager in Paris has in front of her? Yes, and it almost seems like you could reach out and pick it up.

Halo allows the natural side conversations that often spring up during face-to-face meetings. So the person with the loudest voice isn't the only one contributing ideas and directing the discussion.
No other technology can come close to bringing people together and accelerate business the way Halo can.

Despite the kilometres, you won't notice any delay in the voice signal, so it's easier to interrupt - and aren't the most productive collaborations full of interruptions? Halo lets the conversation flow naturally in tune with your thought processes. And just like real life, there are no mute buttons.

If Halo looks like something you'd expect to see only in the movies, you're almost right. In fact, the Halo prototypes were dreamed up by the same minds that created successful animated movies like Shrek2 and Madagascar: DreamWorks Animation SKG.

 "This technology has profoundly impacted our ability to collaborate across geography, enabling us to bring people together without the cost and burden of travel. It has fundamentally changed how we run our business," says Ed Leonard, Chief Technology Officer, DreamWorks Animation SKG.
 
With an aggressive goal to release two animated movies a year, DreamWorks needed the equivalent of a time machine. They could not find a solution in the marketplace so they used their filmmaking artistry to create a prototype virtual space where people from separate locations could meet. They then invited HP to use its experience in engineering innovation to provide the technology to make it work. Halo was the result.

Now that reality is catching up with science fiction, companies can speed up design-to-production changes across continents without constant international travel. Halo can help to integrate management teams, for example, across the twenty-five members of the European Union or between Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

 

HP engineers in Barcelona are meeting in their Halo studio with colleagues from the United States and Israel to coordinate the research and development, manufacturing and supply chain aspects of HP’s imaging business.

Executives can use Halo for internal meetings and free up their teams to spend more time with customers.  Everyone knows that nothing is more important to their business than strong customer relationships.

Halo lets you focus on being a businessperson, not a business traveler. Your colleagues may be thousands of miles away, but with Halo you're all together.