HP has unveiled one in every of its most expansive collaboration bulletins in years at InfoComm 2026 – spanning headsets, video conferencing {hardware}, clever cameras, and a platform play that reframes how IT groups take into consideration assembly room administration.
On the coronary heart of all of it is an idea Greg Baribault, VP of Product and Portfolio Administration, calls ambient know-how. “We would like the convention controller, the microphones, the shows and cameras to simply disappear,” he explains.
“The room makes sensible selections so folks can concentrate on what they’re there to do – have a gathering, have a dialogue, have impression.”
That imaginative and prescient is being pushed by AI throughout the whole portfolio. On the software program aspect, HP is integrating Poly Lens into its Workforce Expertise Platform (WXP) – a transfer designed to shift the dialog for IT from gadget administration to workforce productiveness. Room Visualiser AI exemplifies the ambition: stroll into an area, take a number of photographs, and the platform detects room dimensions, chair depend, window placement and recommends the appropriate digicam and microphone setup robotically.
On the {hardware} aspect, the brand new Studio Room Compute brings a Home windows-based MTR and Zoom Rooms system constructed particularly for integrators, full with magnetic backplane, colour-coded ports, and a 50 TOPS NPU for edge AI processing. Alongside it, VideoOS 5.1 introduces DirectorAI – multi-camera switching that tracks the place contributors are wanting in actual time, guaranteeing the appropriate face is at all times in body.
However maybe the announcement Baribault is most keen to speak about is the Poly Focus 6 headset collection. Light-weight, foldable, with swappable ear cushions and a discreet growth mic, it’s designed to look nearly as good on digicam because it sounds. “It’s stunning,” he says merely. Exhausting to argue.
With WXP managing units throughout a number of distributors and AI embedded at each layer, HP’s message at InfoComm is evident: the period of twiddling with assembly room tech must be over.
