Like a fax machine, videoconferencing equipment seems to be a technology that most companies invest in, even if they rarely use it. Now, a Google veteran has launched Highfive, a $799 device that promises (again) to make videoconferencing simple.
What Highfive boils down to is a system that uses an old Google trick—"throwing" a mobile conferencing app to a standalone device, like the Google Chromecast—to quickly hand off an on-the-go conferencing session into a more formal setting. The idea, according to the company's founders, is to help eliminate all the tedious scheduling that can go on when all you need to do is virtually huddle with a few remote coworkers.
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