Neat Introduces Next-Generation Videobar—Everything You Need to Know

AVNetwork Staff
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Neat has introduced its Neat Bar Generation 2, designed to deliver audio and video for native Zoom or Microsoft Teams Rooms meetings in a slim form. Neat Bar 2 is certified for both Microsoft Teams and Zoom Rooms.

“When we created Neat Bar in 2019, we hardly imagined that by 2024 we'd deploy our devices with over 13,000 customers globally, including many of the world’s largest enterprises," said Ivar Johnsrud, head of hardware and electronics and co-founder of Neat. "Neat Bar marked a new era of simplicity, quality and design in video devices, an accomplishment we’re proud to build upon with the release of Neat Bar Generation 2. It is, put simply, a step up in every way. Better video, better audio, and a more powerful processor to take advantage of Neat’s AI solutions. We hope our customers enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed creating it for them,"

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Neat Bar 2 was designed for small and medium-sized meeting spaces, delivering enhanced capabilities  including:

  • Exceptional Video Wuality: The wide-angle, highly dynamic 50MP camera captures the entire meeting space and can zoom in on, frame, and follow multiple people at once. Lightning-fast video processing ensures everyone is seen in the same proportion, regardless of where they are, and supports dynamic shifting between group and focused participant views. An integrated second-generation platform drives hardware-accelerated audio and video processing directly on the device, not in the cloud.

  • Crystal-Clear Audio: With a five-microphone end-fire array, four voice localization tracking mics and advanced algorithms for voice enhancement, echo cancellation, deep noise suppression and dereverberation, Neat Bar 2 enables a more natural flow of conversation. Dual speakers with opposing drivers cancel out vibration, maximize tonal range and deliver minimal distortion so that voices sound natural.

  • AI for More Engaging Meetings: Neat Bar 2 uses enhanced machine learning algorithms that provide an improved meeting experience by continuously learning and adapting to a room’s acoustics and noises, light conditions, layout and people movement.

  • Slim Design: Neat Bar 2 incorporates carefully designed technology components for a strikingly slender profile, ideal for thin screens. Neat Bar 2 can be placed on a table, above or below one or two monitors, or wall mounted. It slides right into first generation Neat Bar mounts. It comes with Neat Pad, our dynamic touch-screen meeting controller.