Features:

  • BEST TEAM MEETING EXPERIENCE. Meeting Owl is the first 360° smart video conferencing camera. It automatically highlights and shifts focus to different people in the room when they speak, so you know what’s happening as if you’re there.
  • SEE AND HEAR EVERYONE CLEARLY. It combines mic, camera and speaker into one device and sits in the center of the table. The 360° lens shows the whole room, while eight microphones pick up everyone within twelve feet.
  • EASY AND QUICK SETUP. Plug in the power and USB, load up your favorite video conferencing platform, and start your meeting. No downloads or installs.
  • GET NEW FEATURES AUTOMATICALLY. Meeting Owl connects to wifi so you get new helpful features automatically over time and the best possible experience.
  • GIVE THE OWL A TRY. Use the 30-day return policy to try the Meeting Owl in your own office. Get feedback from your in-office and remote teammates and see what they think.
Owl is really great and has made a big diff in our meetings

Owl is really great and has made a big diff in our meetings. Audio is better than a speaker phone (both mic and output) or tv, and the views rock - in many ways because the camera is simultaneously closer to everyone and also the distance to participants is more evened out. So you can both see everyone, and make out everyone's face. And the simplicity is *great* (just plug in and it works, no software to install, extra mics, wires, etc). Small asks: - It would be nice if the resolved video was slightly higher res so you could read things on whiteboards (without writing super huge) - It does seem to pickup HVAC/computer fans just a bit... don't know if there's a way to filter out drone type noises better. - Super minor - An indicator on the unit of which way is front (ie, which side is where the split in the panorama view is) so you can split the in-room tv instead of someone's head.

Perfect conference room video conferencing device

I bought this for a conference room in my home. I do a lot of work from home and wanted to be able to have a good camera for Zoom calls with a small group around my conference table. I learned about the Meeting Owl from being on the receiving end of a call with several people around a table. The sound quality was great and I was quite impressed with the device's ability to focus the camera on the person speaking, coupled with the full "panorama" view of the room from the middle of the table. I called the host of that meeting to learn what they were using and discovered the Owl. I was about to buy a more traditional camera / audio system but I liked the functionality of the Owl. The bonus is that it cost a bit less than what was I considering. Net net, I'm very happy with the device. It works great, picture and sound quality are excellent, and it connects easily to my MBP. I've been using it on and off for about a month and so far, I have not found any gotchas.

When Corporate IT comes... a big company perspective

I work for a company with about 26K employees, where infrastructure is pretty locked down but we realize that "digital is coming" and that we have to be more flexible. My review is really for the corporate IT department trying to figure out what the heck this thing is, is it a security risk, and where do we go from here. First, we wanted to know that this can be used in fully stand alone mode-- USB only-- as a webcam. It can. Internet is not absolutely required, it does work with Pixelbook and Chromebooks, it does work with Windows 10 with no additional manual driver loads required. IT does do what it claims, scanning the room, identifying humans, making them the center of the video when they are speaking as you would expect from a very large, very expensive video conferencing system. The video quality was "good" but I wouldn't call it exceptional. Next: Firmware updates. Yes it does require some kind of wifi based internet connection and a smart phone app to initiate firmware updates. At this point we have users using their smart phone as a mobile hotspot to manage firmware updates. We don't allow unauthenticated devices without MDM on our wireless network today, so this was the most logical short term workaround. Next: Can it be secured? Not really. I thought it was running Android, haven't been able to confirm what OS is on it. Finally: The Registration: This is probably the part that, at first was the most concerning from a corporate IT perspective. It has its own cloud based utilization/ status/ statistics gathering program that allows anyone with a corporate email address who registers a unit to see all of the other units in the environment. I discovered that we had two other units registered. In reality a person could register the unit on a personal email account and we'd never know about it, etc. This is the murky part that we haven't fully settled in on. As of now the units are still allowed for use and we haven't made any clear conclusions on starting up an IoT type dedicated SSID, though this is not the only product driving that kind of decision it's certainly one of them. The device does accomplish it's goal of making a remote worker feel more part of the team and for that, there were few to no other prefect alternatives.

Finally a camera that was worth the money.

A good conference room camera has become my obsession. I've returned maybe 5 cameras, I have a drawer full of other ones. Nothing out there until this thing really lends itself to be used in smaller conference rooms. I'm thinking of dropping these in all of my smaller conference rooms. I agree with one of the other reviewers, the time it takes to recognize the speaker can vary. Regardless, I have tried a variety of wide angle lens camera's to work with smaller huddle rooms with no success. This crazy camera is awesome and does a great job with small huddle rooms! I've not tried it in larger environments. Here's my gripe, I have a lot of different folks coming into the conference rooms. The hardware is very elegant but I prefer more clearly marked buttons in lieu of elegance. The subtle control buttons at the base are too obscure for a common use environment. -Chuck

Very good for v1 .. can’t wait for v2

Wonderful device .. I use it for my personal customer on-site meetings as we want to get everyone on the call .. I love the experience and how it very well integrates with zoom .. Only Con I would say are Sometimes the individual recognition is not very accurate .. and if you’re using it in a conference room with a tv for screen share and audio output (as the speaker in MO might not be loud enough) the individual AI video being generated freaks out and does a never ending split as it thinks there are multiple people that it needs to split as the audio feedback loops in If the price is at 500 I would say it’s the best value for money

Awesome portable meeting room webcam with speaker

We’ve used the Owl Leora about 5 months. Very reliable and clear camera. The speaker is great. Also, I like the portability of it as we move it from meeting room to meeting room. I actually took it out of town to a remote board meeting. Worked great. Since we show some smaller products during our presentations, I love that we can move the Owl clofser to the presenter versus having to use ha zoom thingy. Great for businesses who want remote meetings with human connection.

High quality picture and sound with great functionality!

Excellent product, works great for our multi-office meetings. We even send them to clients (with a return label of course!) for multi-person onboardings. Picture quality is great, sound quality is great. Simple and easy to set up and use with Zoom!

Up and running beautifully in less than 10 minutes

We have regular video conference calls with team members around the globe and have been needing an easy (we're not all tech savvy around here) yet high quality solution to our calls. The little owl on the table did an impressive job and we were all surprised by the quality it created. I do hope the team who created it continues to develop it. While there are areas where there is room for improvement, even without those improvements we're more than satisfied.

Easy PLUG AND PLAY

Absolutely awesome piece of equipment for our company. We use the Meeting Owl to hold sales meetings in two different cities and they work great. We use them with Office Skype and we are very satisfied. We have tried numerous other methods without this level of success.

The perfect conference room camera

Love everything about this camera, I have been researching conference room cameras for a long time and could not find one that would have the audio quality we need because of the echo in our conference room is so bad. This camera is perfect! The sound quality is great and the receiving end is also solid sound quality. I will be adding two more to our other conference rooms as soon as we get the chance. The picture quality isn't super Hi-Def but good enough for what its needed for, that could also be the median we are using for conferencing. The one drawback may be having to plug it directly into a computer which is on a wall behind an 80-inch screen, about 10 feet away. I currently have a USB extender running it back to the computer, I suggest if you do this you get one that includes AC power adapter otherwise the signal will not come through as it should. Hope this helps anyone make a decision as it really is a fantastic camera!

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