The Meeting Owl is an in one 360 degree camera and microphone for web conferencing meetings and small class meetings. It connects to your computer with a usb input and it requires a separate A/C power connection. As you can see when powered on it physically looks like an Owl, hence the name. It is designed for live recordings for meetings and video conferencing and it is compatible with both Panopto and Zoom.
Ideally you would position the Owl in the middle of a conference table to capture all of the subjects using it’s 360 wide angle camera lens. The nice thing about the Owl is that if you have more than one person talking around a table it will automatically change the view to show who is speaking at that moment. There is a volume control built into the body of the Owl, but otherwise all other settings are handled internally. After plugging in the usb cable and power cable you’ll just need to remember to change the video and audio settings to the Owl in the software you are using to conference, such as Zoom.
To learn more about the Owl conference kits and how to integrate them into your teaching and/or learning experience at Lehigh University, please contact us at inmediad@lehigh.edu.