Making a Full Collaboration Resolution with Amazon Chime SDK and Bluescape

Video conferencing offers a communication channel for conferences, however one-way display sharing falls wanting fulfilling the actual wants of hybrid and distant groups.

Present options permit you to solely view a single display at a time with no solution to meaningfully work together with the content material. Because of this, conferences typically get slowed down as everybody waits for his or her flip to current their work.

Our purpose at Bluescape, an AWS ISV Associate with the Digital Office Competency, is to make digital conferences as efficient and seamless as working collectively side-by-side. This implies empowering folks to freely talk, share content material, and work together with no limitations.

To do that, we’re basically altering the best way content material is shared in video conferences. Amazon Chime SDK offers the real-time communications parts that allow audio, video, and display share capabilities.

This submit describes Bluescape’s method to collaboration, its integration with Amazon Chime SDK, and potential advantages.

Flipping the Paradigm

Whenever you display share, you’re mirroring your display right into a name. Bluescape works otherwise. By putting your name right into a digital workspace the place as an alternative of simply seeing one individual’s display, you might have a full canvas of content material obtainable in your assembly to discover, work together with, and annotate.

This paradigm shift permits distributed groups to deliver their conferences and all of their content material, information, and workstreams right into a “single pane of glass” to speed up planning and determination making. By eradicating the constraints of display sharing, groups can extra successfully share and create data. Distributed groups can collaborate like they’re in the identical room.

“Display screen sharing, alone, isn’t collaboration. Bluescape is a superior expertise for true video and assembly collaboration.”

– Gary Kayye, Director of THE rAVe Company

Bluescape is a visible platform that brings everybody–and the whole lot–collectively by offering superior whiteboarding, presentation, and annotation capabilities. Groups can add and synchronize playback of movies, co-browse internet content material, collaborate on paperwork, and video chat in a safe, infinite, and digital workspace.

Powered by the Amazon Chime SDK

To make this doable, Bluescape constructed upon the Amazon Chime SDK to allow video calls in Bluescape. This integration delivers great advantages to customers by enabling superior collaboration capabilities in tandem with safe, high-quality audio and video conferencing.

Because of this, prospects get pleasure from conferences that ship extra interplay and engagement whereas costing lower than current options.

The mixing is centered round a node.js uc-connector element that acts as a central hub to allow video calls in Bluescape. It interfaces with Outlook and MySQL for scheduled conferences and authorization, whereas an interface to MongoDB manages the storage of assembly and session information.

Launching, becoming a member of, and responding to assembly occasions are managed between the uc-connector, Amazon Chime SDK, and Amazon Easy Notification Service (Amazon SNS), with conferences being instantiated throughout Bluescape’s internet consumer for end-user units and their wall consumer for in-room single and multi-screen installations.

Why Amazon Chime SDK?

Bluescape beforehand relied on a third-party expertise vendor to allow video conferences in a workspace. The product workforce was in want of a less expensive answer with excessive scalability, reliability, and low-level entry to features to create a extra tightly built-in expertise.

Key benefits of the Amazon Chime SDK included extraordinarily fine-grained management over audio and video streams, and the whole capacity to customise the design to create a seamless integration into finish person expertise. The engineering workforce discovered the SDK straightforward to make use of and was in a position to deliver up all the integration with none assist.

Bluescape’s integration with Amazon Chime SDK permits each scheduled and ad-hoc calls, whereas offering extra performance for future work.

Prospects will quickly have the ability to navigate throughout a number of workspaces whereas nonetheless being linked to the identical video name. You may even have a number of leaders throughout the identical workspace, every conducting a personal name with their followers.

Resolution Advantages

Bluescape prospects embody the intelligence neighborhood, federal companies, and leaders in expertise, media, and better training. They’re utilizing Bluescape to unite their distant and hybrid groups to create cars, attire, and animated movies.

Studios can just about edit and produce motion pictures, enabling manufacturing to happen anyplace and at any time. Universities can transfer to distance studying with a digital classroom that helps versatile many-to-many interactions and helps a number of studying kinds.

Integrating video calls into Bluescape creates a collaboration expertise far superior to conventional video conferencing and display sharing.

• Improve effectivity: All the content material you want is seen and readily accessible within the workspace, lowering the hassles of discovering content material and the switching prices of swapping display sharing permissions.
• Enhance productiveness and engagement: Groups can collaborate in actual time throughout a gathering as an alternative of being an viewers to a video name. Bluescape capabilities embody whiteboarding, co-editing shared paperwork, annotation and markup, leaving feedback, and directing @mentions.
• Scale back bandwidth consumption: Bluescape is extra bandwidth-efficient than display sharing as customers can view and work together with content material within the workspace as an alternative of continually streaming video of a distant gadget.

“The flexibility to deliver video into the identical place as your content material is the way forward for collaboration. Bluescape’s video integration makes content material and distant collaborators first-class residents within the assembly.”

– Nick Swayne, James Madison College X-Labs Director

Conclusion

Bringing the Amazon Chime SDK into Bluescape completely aligns with Bluescape’s targets and infrastructure. Bluescape depends on the robustness, safety, and scalability of AWS to supply safe, digital workspaces to our prospects.

Our cloud structure is predicated on the AWS stack and offers an open and configurable ecosystem, enabling integrations with AWS functions and different third-party instruments and companies.

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