Conference Bars – helping you get together from home

Parents helping two children open presents in front of the Christmas tree.

Travel (especially long distance) is expensive, time consuming, not environmentally friendly, often dangerous and regularly impractical to the point of being impossible.
Lockdown and work from home has shown us that video calling can be easier, cheaper, safer and more practical. It won’t completely replace a hug from a beloved friend or relative or the taste and smells of fresh baked holiday treats. But it will let you share special occasions with those you love without spending hours or even days traveling or having to live in each other pockets the entire time you are together

But being squashed around a tiny webcam in the corner of the study/home office/bedroom isn’t ideal for more than more than one or maybe two people. If you’ve been in enough online meetings or even just watched the news you can see that bad quality video calls with even worse sound are far more aggravating than they are fun. So how do we share our celebrations with those near to our hearts but far from our homes?

Imagine being able to share the whole room, the whole scene. The family opening presents around the Christmas tree. Everyone raising glasses to ring in the New Year. Getting into arguments over Charades, Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit or some other party game. The noise of a cheerful family dinner.

With the Alfatron SALUT Video Bar, a laptop (or another computer and screen arrangement) and an internet connection, you can. The built in HD camera with it’s 90 degree shooting angle will let your guest easily see everyone in the room. The high fidelity microphone and built audio processing lets you hear each person without speechjamming anyone or drowning them out with rustling paper or clanging cutlery. The built in speakers mean that if the party’s outside (and your computer is portable), you can take your virtual guests with you. If the internet is down, people live in inconvenient time zones or you just want to preserve the memories you can record the feed as well or instead. Maybe you want to take up video editing as a new hobby.

Best of all when you’re done, you’re already home, no driving, no flying, no having to find a polite way to shove that lingering guest out the door. Share the occasion without having to share your space.