Google Jamboard - Summary from Google TechTalk

Early this week I went to Google tech talk where Google have presented a talk and demo of their new product Google Jamboard. The Jamboard and the talk was simply awesome so just thought to share my experience. Apart from the talk, I got opportunity to experience the device and exclusive interaction with engineering team, and it was just 'wow'.

The Jamboard is an extended version of whiteboard and I can say a smart whiteboard, which frees-up from hassles of having the limited space on board, sometimes we wanted to leave the meeting content as it is on board and then writing 'don't erase', putting the camera over whiteboard to share it with team sitting at different geographical locations, and much more as bonus with this Jamboard.

The Jamboard is a 55-inch 4K touch-screen digital whiteboard. This is for Google and enterprise customers. The Jamboard is a whiteboard which gives power of collaboration at workplace. The Jamboard touch-screen has 16 simultaneous touch points, which supports handwriting and shape recognition. It has an in-built powerful camera, speakers and microphones. It provides WiFi and Ethernet connections to connect the world. There are two included fine tip passive stylus, along with an eraser which is meant for users interaction on the Jamboard.

It's a cloud based, pure real time device which has artificial intelligence at some extent. Every activity on Jamboard is getting saved over cloud. The Jamboard is pretty good for any kind of data including docs, spreadsheet, images, etcetera.

The whole-sole purpose of this device is to provide the multi-user collaboration and put their thought on this digital Jamboard, which would be available any-time anywhere. After login to the device, it opens a jam (session) which can be used across the team using the custom application from their tablets/mobiles for their collaboration.

I have experienced the wiping of some content from Jamboard using finger and it was the same as we wipe chalk from blackboard. I did my scratched sign using stylus and it got converted to proper letter-case, took couple of the pictures and it was pretty bright and clear. We can drag, resize and there are more which can be done on Jamboard. Tried web search, Google maps and anything which you can think for your collaboration is right there on Jamboard.

As a whiteboard lover I liked it the most and you are going too.