HP’s Vision for Immersive Workspaces - Six Five on the Road

How is HP pushing for the future of work to be more human, immersive, and intelligent?

At Infocomm 2025, host Melody Brue is joined by HP's Greg Baribault, VP of Product and Portfolio of Hybrid Systems, for a conversation on the company’s innovative vision for the future of work. The conversation unveils HP’s visionary approach, detailing how innovative solutions like HP Dimension, along with Google Beam and HP’s broader Hybrid Systems strategy, are revolutionizing how we collaborate and connect.

Key takeaways include:

🔹HP Dimension with Google Beam's Breakthrough: Discover the impact of HP Dimension with Google Beam, a solution meticulously engineered to bridge the hybrid collaboration gap with human-centered design. Discover its notable pilot user approval, which highlights enhanced presence, connectivity, and focus during meetings.

🔹Elevating Audio with HP Poly Studio A2: Get introduced to the new HP Poly Studio A2 Audio Solutions, designed to provide professional-grade audio clarity and ensure seamless integration with HP Dimension with Google Beam. Explore how these solutions enhance meeting equity by capturing every voice across diverse environments.

🔹Future Trajectory of HP Hybrid Systems: Gain insights into the forward planning for HP Hybrid Systems, emphasizing a strategic focus on integrating AI and advanced immersion technologies to foster truly intelligent, human-first experiences in all collaborative efforts.

🔹HP's Vision for The Future of Work: Explore HP’s overarching vision, underlining a human-first approach with holistic design across solutions that proactively reduce digital friction, seamlessly incorporate AI and automation, and are fundamentally built with sustainability, security, and purpose at their core.

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Melody Brue: Hi and welcome to this episode of Six Five On the Road. I'm Melody Brue with Moor Insights and Strategy. I am here at Infocomm 2025 with Greg Baribault, VP of Product and Portfolio for HP. Greg, you made a major announcement here today or this week and I got to experience it firsthand. So first I have to just say congratulations.

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Greg Baribault: Thank you.

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Melody Brue: My mind's blown, like really actually blown.

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Greg Baribault: We get that reaction a lot.

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Melody Brue: So tell me about the announcement when we're talking HP Dimension with Google Beam. A fully immersive experience like none other I've seen.

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Greg Baribault: HP Dimension with Google Beam is the first fully immersive 3D meeting experience built for enterprise. And you know, when I think of product making, I think it's best to start with purpose. Why? Right. Not what are we building, but why? And at HP, we deeply believe in this vision of connecting people in deeply authentic human ways. A lot like we're doing right here.

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Melody Brue: Yeah.

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Greg Baribault: And the vision, that vision really carried into the HP dimension with the Google Beam product. And I think like you saw, I hope we fulfilled that and connected people in a way that just feels very natural and like you're very present and having a face to face conversation with somebody in the same room.

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Melody Brue: Yeah. So where did you see the need? You know, you say like you're answering a need. Where did you see that need? What was lacking for people in the workplace right now?

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Greg Baribault: That. It's a great question. So we do an annual Work Health Relationship Index study and we find that nearly 3/4 of employees feel like they don't have a healthy relationship with work. And we believe that's rooted in a lack of connection with their colleagues, sometimes enterprises or companies with their customers. And we've been on this mission to restore that and make people feel very connected to each other. And it really scales to everywhere people meet, whether it's at home, at their desk, in a conference room, at work, or now in a fully immersive experience. One to one.

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Melody Brue: Yeah. And it's a very natural feeling environment. When you're in front of the HP Dimension with Google Beam, there's not a lot of cameras pointed at you. It literally felt like you were sitting across the desk for me.

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Greg Baribault: Right.

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Melody Brue: Talk a little bit about the design of it, how you came about that and just the. I really wish that you could actually feel the way that I know. Give that experience.

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Greg Baribault: It's impossible to describe. You have to see it. One of the beautiful things we did with the hardware was really remove the technology. You see no technology There's a screen sort of in front of the person and it actually you're 3D but you feel like you're behind. Sometimes 3D that pops out of the screen feels a little bit uncomfortable. So ours actually feel like the person sitting back on the other side of a table. So it feels very natural. There's no cameras pointed at you. You don't have that self conscious feeling of being on camera. So it does just feel like a natural face to face conversation.

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Melody Brue: And the ability to actually make eye contact is very unique.

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Greg Baribault: It is and it's super important because it keeps people focused. And we found that when people do have a meeting or a discussion in the HP Dimension with Google Beam product, there's greater recall because they actually remain focused. They don't get distracted by the other things on their screen or by their phone. And in part it's because they know the other person is seeing them in the same way too. Like if I took out my phone right now, that would seem kind of rude, but I would feel the same way inside this experience.

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Melody Brue: Yeah. So give me some examples of use cases. I mean eventually I think you want this for everybody to have one, but initially what are some really important places where you see this being where like this is going to be a real game changer immediately.

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Greg Baribault: Every time we talk to new customers, we hear about new use cases that they envision. It's incredible. You can imagine executive to executive, sort of one on one discussions or company to company. We've seen interview approaches where maybe a college graduate might interview with a company and not fly, but use this technology to engage. We've seen much more personal experiences too like deployed troops that want to contact family members back home and they can have this very personal one to one discussion. So it's kind of limitless in the possibilities of how to connect these, these people.

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Melody Brue: It's pretty incredible. So HP also introduced the HP Poly A2 audio solutions.

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Greg Baribault: Yes.

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Melody Brue: Can you talk a little bit about that?

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Greg Baribault: Yes. So HP's Polystudio A2 audio solutions are about a tabletop microphone that can scale from 1 to up to 8 and connect to a very integrator friendly bridge. So through very customized wiring and basic connectors, you can scale these solutions to virtually any size room, connect to an easy to install bridge and connect that to any of our Generation 2 video products. So it really kind of fulfills that vision of immersive experience, authentic connections, but crystal clear audio, letting people be seen and heard, create equity in the Meeting room and deliver that through a very easy to install and deploy audio solution.

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Melody Brue: And these can be chained together so you can have multiples. 

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Greg Baribault: Lots of flexibility in how they deploy. Like I said, anywhere from one to eight. And yeah, lots of different wiring options all in line. You can do pairs of four. So super flexible. And again, reinforcing that vision of equity at the table so everyone can be heard. You actually saw two of them inside the HP Dimension with Google Beam. That is the audio solution we're providing there to provide that in addition to the great video and 3D experience, you can hear each other and speak so clearly too.

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Melody Brue: It's funny to say this, I think, but voice has really become really critical. We've got away from voice for a short period of time where everything was omnichannel but voice, especially with AI and the data that you can get from voice and now with the Edge, how inclusive voice can be, how are you planning around that, building around that? What do you think about that?

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Greg Baribault: Your spot on that voice is the most important part of any online meeting. You can usually sustain a video drop here or there.

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Melody Brue: Right.

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Greg Baribault: But if you lose audio, you lose all the context of the discussion. So a lot of our work is around creating that crystal clear audio. And it's not always from things like network drops or other transient issues. It's from things like potato chip bags at the table or somebody typing loudly on their keyboard. And that's very distracting for people that are remote to engage in a discussion where their brain is deciphering background noise from human voices.

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Melody Brue: Yeah.

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Greg Baribault: So our AI built into our microphone products, our bridge, our video codecs are there to clean all that audio, remove echo, remove background noise, and let people hear just super clearly. We also are building AI into our management tools so that IT pros when they're looking at how to manage their room estate, they know exactly which rooms need maybe more work, more devices to help make the audio crystal clear.

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Melody Brue: So that observability is really key.

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Greg Baribault: Exactly.

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Melody Brue: Yeah. Okay, well, what do you think is next for HP in the future of work?

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Greg Baribault: So we deeply believe in this vision around greater impact, more authentic connections. And so our goal is to make that more accessible to more people around the world. So in part it's scaling solutions from personal spaces, even the devices that you wear and have on you all the time, up to conference rooms, and then of course into products like HP Dimension with Google Beam. So reach access to more people, greater equity and inclusion for everyone doing work.

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Melody Brue: That's awesome. Well, congratulations on your announcements.

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Greg Baribault: Thank you.

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Melody Brue: Really truly incredible to see. And I wish you all the best. And thank you so much for joining us for this Six Five On The Road at HP with Greg Baribault. And we will see you next time.

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