The Microsoft Surface Hub is a groundbreaking gadget that combines a virtual whiteboard, videoconferencing, and Microsoft's Windows 10 Universal App ecosystem. You may scrawl ideas on a limitless canvas, communicate with colleagues from across the ocean, and construct a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation all at the same time.
1. The Virtual Editor
A screen may take display input from a laptop or tablet, which is not rare. Any smart TV or computer display can accomplish this. However, with the Surface Hub, you can beam your laptop's display onto the Surface Hub's 55- or 84-inch screen, allowing the meeting leader to copy the screen onto the whiteboard and take notes using the Surface Hub's pen and finger inputs.
This is a massive time saving. Rather than having papers shared via Microsoft OneDrive or given from one person to another via email, everyone in your team may review the document on the Surface Hub's screen or in their Microsoft Skype for Business window, and edits can be made in a single session with the whole group.
2. An Endless Whiteboard
Your Microsoft Surface Hub 3 screen may be divided into three smaller displays. You may, for example, run the whiteboard app alongside your Microsoft Edge browser and then launch Skype for Business. The whiteboard and Edge browser may be extended and reduced to your liking, but the Skype for Business screen will sit along the left or right rail, taking up around a fifth of the screen.
The beauty of the whiteboard app is that it gives you an infinite canvas. With a real whiteboard, you normally spitball a few ideas before photographing the whiteboard to record the ideas for posterity (before erasing it to make a place for new ideas). The Surface Hub allows you to spitball into infinity without losing any of the data you have produced. You can drag photos onto the whiteboard, zoom in on certain text or images that are too tiny, and move images and text to a more convenient spot on the whiteboard. Think of it this way: You could use up to 100 fingers to write words on the Surface Hub's screen. At the conclusion of the meeting, you may create a "Good Idea" and a "Bad Idea" column and drag all of the suggestions into the appropriate column. Just remember to email the whiteboard to yourself before the meeting ends, since the Surface Hub automatically erases its disk after each meeting.
3. Interactive Presentations
Typical presentations are dull. Someone stands at the front of the room, pointing to data with his or her finger or, God forbid, a red laser pointer. With the Surface Hub, PowerPoint becomes a tangible component of the presentation. You may use digital ink to highlight any key elements. If someone cannot see what you are referring to, you may zoom in and magnify the picture. You can swipe back and forth from slide to slide without using one of those nasty wireless mice, and if you need to go off-subject, just open the whiteboard and begin scribbling notes alongside the presentation.
You could even have one of your presenters rehearse his or her presentation on the left side of the Surface Hub while you and a colleague take notes on the whiteboard on the right side of the device.
4. Annotate Video for Easy Editing
Download the TechSmith Loop app for the Surface Hub and pretend to be a sportscaster on a telestrator. The program allows you to start, slow, stop, and examine videos frame by frame. Best of all, you may comment and record immediately on the video clip, ensuring that the next viewer sees what you typed.
For example, if your video team has cut a product video, you may go in and provide remarks on certain points in the movie. Was the cut sloppy? Write "sloppy cut" at the precise instant the cut happens. Did they leave anything in that they were meant to remove? Circle the product and mark an X on it. And, like any other Surface Hub program, you can accomplish all of this while introducing yourself to someone over Skype.
5. Create Your Own Apps
If the Windows ecosystem does not provide an app to help you enhance your workflow, Microsoft allows you to create your own app for the Surface Hub or the Windows 10 Universal App ecosystem. Siemens Product Lifecycle Management (Siemens PLM) developed the JT2Go software, which allows users to explore assembly structures contained in engineering and architectural models.
Picture a carburetor: The program allows you to capture a 360-degree view of the engine by spinning and rotating the picture. You may expand, resize, or highlight individual areas of the carburetor, click on specific components for more information, add depth to the picture, take notes, and edit the image as required. Siemens PLM designed this program for this unique use case, but there's no reason you couldn't accomplish a comparable result by replacing the term "carburetor" with "shoe," "building," or "bridge".
These five examples are by no means exhaustive of what you can achieve with the Surface Hub. These are only the five most apparent and beneficial usage scenarios. Whether your team depends on group meetings and cooperation to get work done, I recommend scheduling a Surface Hub demo with a Microsoft distributor in Dubaito see whether it can change the way you operate in new ways.
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