Mar 17, 2022 10:37:00

Microsoft announces 4K webcam 'Surface Hub 2 Smart Camera' equipped with 1TFLOPS AI processor

Microsoft has a lineup of large screen devices '

Surface Hub 2S ' that can be used like a whiteboard in its own device 'Surface' series. This Surface Hub 2S comes with a 4K camera for video conferencing, but a new camera ' Surface Hub 2 Smart Camera ' that is equipped with a new high-performance processor and enables high-quality video conferencing with the power of AI It was announced.

Buy Surface Hub 2 Smart Camera-Microsoft Store
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/surface-hub-2-smart-camera/8n983ctks176

You can see what kind of camera the Surface Hub 2 Smart Camera is by watching the following movie.

The new Surface Hub 2 Smart Camera-YouTube


The Surface Hub 2 Smart Camera can be magnetically attached to the top of the Surface Hub 2S.

The resolution is 4K and the viewing angle is 136 degrees.

The Surface Hub 2 Smart Camera is equipped with an AI processing dedicated chip '

Intel Myriad X 2085 ' with a computing power of 1 TFLOPS , and can correct images in real time with the power of AI. For example, it can recognize people in the room and automatically frame them.

As mentioned earlier, the Surface Hub 2 Smart Camera is mounted on top of the Surface Hub 2, so you'll be shooting the subject from above. The tilt generated at this time can be corrected to a natural state.

Also, the distortion caused by the wide viewing angle of 136 degrees ...

It can be automatically corrected for a natural look.

The Surface Hub 2 Smart Camera is priced at $ 799.99 (about 95,000 yen) and is on sale from March 16, 2022. Also, from May 2022, it will be included in the 85-inch version of Surface Hub 2S.

At the time of writing the article, the official sales page for the Japanese version was not prepared, and the

sales page for the English version is also treated as 'telephone order only'.