One platform.One workspace.Total collaboration, all hands
Ten live sources composited side by side, true wireless BYOM on the room's own camera an' mic, an' sharin' that crosses networks — no VPN, no cable on the table, savvy.
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Inside Polaris Pro
One pod. The whole room, all hands.
Live sources composited side by side, compared, annotated, rearranged live, up to the published per-tier ceilin': 5 on Essentials, 10 on Pro. The room's own silicon does the heavy haulin'; nobody's laptop be load-bearin'.
Why the workspace wins the day→Yer Teams/Zoom/Webex/Meet call, the room's camera an' mic, no cable on the table, an' multi-user too, so the second presenter never waits on a dongle.
The hybrid yarn→On every Polaris tier, Pro included: guests on LTE, staff on the corp Wi-Fi, the display on an AV VLAN, one workspace, no VPN, no UC call. Eleven o' the twelve competitors we checked in August 2026 document LAN-local media only, on their own published specifications; one o' them says it plainly: users on a cellular network or guest Wi-Fi cannot use it. The vendor list an' the sources be charted on the architecture page an' the compare matrix.
See the architecture, matey→Share from the browser on the device ye walked in with, Chromebooks included. No client, no admin rights, no dongle drawer.
How web-join works, savvy→Certifications scoped to a cloud say nothin' about the box on the wall, so the box gets its own proof. Two outside crews have had at it: one over the network, one with the lid off.
Independent scan by an outside crew · July 2026
An outside firm scanned a managed Pod. The ports that answer be the castin' and appliance functions, and no persistent media listener was enumerable at all, the real-time media path uses ephemeral per-session UDP ports that answer only after ICE consent. There be no standin' media service in the room to probe.
Independent physical attack by an outside crew · May 2025
An outside firm took a Gen 4 Pod in hand, opened it an' attacked the hardware: UART an' JTAG on the debug headers, an attempt to lift the firmware off the flash, a lab man-in-the-middle. No critical, high, medium or low-severity vulnerabilities were identified. Root login over the debug interface be refused outright, with no password prompt even offered; the firmware could not be extracted; no personally identifiable information was found stowed on the device; an' a presented invalid certificate was refused: the Pod failed the handshake an' stopped talkin' to Mersive rather than trustin' the interceptor.
Aboard the device
Secure boot be mandatory on production firmware. The device's own identity keys be sealed into an NXP SE050 secure element. USB access be by allowlist. 802.1X with EAP-TLS makes the room a first-class citizen o' yer NAC rather than an exception in it.
The company, an' the cloud
Mersive be ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, with no nonconformities raised at the June 2026 surveillance audit, and the Polaris cloud this Pro unit reports to be SOC 2 Type 2 attested.
Their caveat, which we keep: that does not make compromise impossible, but it would take an adversary o' significant skill and effort. The full architecture, every scope statement and the audit findin's: the Trust Center.
Full transparency, matey: the full network an' security posture laid out on the page, with no form between ye an' the facts.
| Specification | Polaris Pro |
|---|---|
| Simultaneous shares aboard the workspace | Polaris Pro can currently carry up to 10 live sources composited side by side |
| Web-join from the browser: no app, no download, no fuss | ✓ share from the device ye walked in with |
| Native AirPlay · Miracast · Google Cast (LAN) | ✓ all three, built in: cast from Apple, Windows and Chromebook devices on the room network with nothin' installed |
| Mobile sharin' · phones an' tablets | ✓ the Polaris app fer iOS and Android: share yer screen, photos or a live whiteboard, and steer the workspace from yer seat |
| Specification | Polaris Pro |
|---|---|
| 802.1X network authentication | ✓ EAP-TLS, PEAP, TTLS or EAP-PWD, on wired Ethernet and on Wi-Fi (WPA2-Enterprise). Supply a CA certificate, a client certificate and a private key; the supplied private key be held encrypted at rest under a key that is itself sealed in the NXP SE050 secure element, rather than in plaintext configuration |
| Dual-network posture: corp + guest, kept isolated | Wired GbE an' the wireless radio run at the same time, an' the pod does not forward between them: its firewall drops all forwarded traffic an' the firmware never enables IP forwardin'. Corporate on the wire, guests on Wi-Fi — kept apart because the device be not a router, not because o' a policy someone could unmake |
| Cross-network relay: subnets / VLANs / the open internet | ✓ cloud-negotiated direct connections; signalin' be outbound-only TLS on TCP 443; no inbound firewall rules needed |
Plain speakin': 802.1x means the network itself demands the device prove who it be before grantin' a port; EAP-TLS proves it with a certificate instead o' a password. Dual-network posture means the device sits on two networks at once, kept isolated, so guests share without ever settin' foot on the corporate LAN.
| Specification | Polaris Pro |
|---|---|
| Encryption on the voyage (in transit) | Signallin' an' fleet management run outbound over HTTPS to Polaris Cloud. The device exposes no TLS listener of its own, so a port scan o' the pod finds nothin' to negotiate against — the encryption that matters be on the outbound leg o' the voyage, not on an open port in yer room |
| Secure boot · a secure element | ✓ secure boot be mandatory on production firmware an' is rooted in Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A); the NXP SE050 secure element on board holds the device's own identity an' update-verification keys in hardware |
| A TAA-compliant supply chain | ✓ built with Advantech in Taiwan, a TAA-designated country, with the bare printed circuit board the only China-sourced item aboard the build |
| Linux-hardened OS | ✓ purpose-built, minimized Linux at the display: no Windows attack surface, no general-purpose desktop, savvy |
| Key custody: where the private keys be stowed | ✓ device private keys be generated an' used inside the NXP SE050 secure element an' never cross its boundary. The channel between the application an' the secure element be itself authenticated an' encrypted (GlobalPlatform SCP-03), an' the keys fer that channel be held in ARM TrustZone secure firmware where neither the operatin' system nor any application can read them. |
| Signed updates, no downgrade — an' automatic rollback on a failed load | ✓ two different things, an' both matter. Update packages be checked fer authenticity an' integrity before they be applied, an' the device will not accept a downgrade to an earlier version, so a known-vulnerable firmware cannot be pushed back onto a Pod. Separately, the pod keeps two firmware partitions: a new image installs alongside the runnin' one rather than over it, an' a pod that fails to come up on the new version comes back up on the last known-good one. Deliberate downgrade be refused; a bad load rights itself. |
| Content that never lingers aboard | ✓ shared content be composited on the fly rather than written to the device, an' ephemeral session data — content, session keys an' generated random values — be overwritten at the end o' every session, includin' sessions that be abandoned rather than ended cleanly. |
| Physical: a Kensington Nano Security Slot | ✓ on the hull |
| Specification | Polaris Pro |
|---|---|
| HDMI output: twin displays | 2× HDMI 2.0, twin 4K (3840 × 2160) at 60 Hz; 1080p an' 720p up to 60 Hz. CEC fer display power an' input control, savvy |
| HDMI input: ingest by cable / room-system augmentation | 1× HDMI 2.0 in, 1280 × 720 through 4K (3840 × 2160) at up to 60 Hz, with HDCP 2.0 content protection. Polaris Pro has two wired HDMI input modes, chosen by yer room administrator. Workspace tile be the default: the input joins the workspace alongside wireless shares and be visible to remote crewmates. Direct bypass (full-screen pass-through) sends the input straight to the room display, outside the workspace. Remote crewmates do not receive that feed. |
| Ethernet | 1× 10/100/1000 RJ-45, PoE+ (802.3at Type 2) |
| Audio out | ✓ a dedicated analog audio-out jack on the rear panel, so room audio can go straight to a soundbar or a DSP without passin' through the display |
| Video codecs | H.264 encode an' decode · H.265 encode an' decode · VP8 decode · VP9 decode · MPEG-4 decode · AV1 decode · JPEG/MJPEG decode. In service, aye: H.264 carries AirPlay, Miracast an' web-join over WebRTC; VP8 carries Google Cast; VP9 decodes digital signage playback |
| Wi-Fi radio | MediaTek MT7921: Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax compliant, 2.4 + 5 GHz bands, 2×2 MIMO; Bluetooth 5.2 (MediaTek MT7921) |
| USB: yer peripherals (camera, mic, speaker, touch) | 2× USB 3.0+ Type-C (female), in host mode · output 5 V at 0.9 A maximum · no USB Power Delivery — this be what carries a room camera an' mic fer wireless BYOM. lists the port count only, without a generation or connector type, so the sheet be less specific than the requirement rather than in conflict with it. |
| Specification | Polaris Pro |
|---|---|
| Chipset / SoC | MediaTek MT8395AV/ZA (Genio 1200): 8-core ARM, 4× Cortex-A78 an' 4× Cortex-A55 at up to 2.2 GHz, with a Mali GPU and on-die APU (MediaTek's name fer its NPU), OpenGL ES 3.0 / Vulkan. |
| NPU: AI silicon aboard the device | NPU 4.8 TOPS (INT8) in the MediaTek documentation, 9.6 TOPS at minimum precision (INT4), the convention MediaTek uses fer its current Genio series. |
| RAM · storage | 16 GB LPDDR4 · 32 GB eMMC: 19 GB available fer storage, the remainder holdin' the system image and the second partition that carries an OTA update and allows firmware rollback |
| Video pipeline: simultaneous decodin' / real-time encodin' | Decode 2× 4K60 or 4× 1080p60 at once; the compositor imposes no cap at the layout layer; the published Pro ceilin' be 10 simultaneous shares, set by decode throughput |
| Specification | Polaris Pro |
|---|---|
| Power | PoE+ (802.3at Type 2) fer a single-cable install, or 12 VDC, 2 A, 24 W max from the barrel jack. The power supply be sold separately on Pro |
| Dimensions · weight | 86 × 184 × 30 mm. Pro and Essentials be different hulls: Essentials is 58 × 140 × 30 mm. Both released data sheets print 150 × 67 × 30 mm and 204 g fer both products, which cannot be true o' two different enclosures; the sheets are bein' reissued |
| Operatin' environment | Indoor use only, no open decks · 0°C (32°F) to 35°C (95°F) · 30% to 70% RH ambient |
| Storage environment | -20°C (-4°F) up to 65°C (149°F) · 10% to 90% RH while stowed |
| Regulatory | FCC (USA) · UL (USA/Canada) · CB Scheme / IECEE (international waters) · UKCA (UK) · CE (EU) · RoHS (EU) · SCIP (EU) |
Radical transparency be the policy: part numbers, RAM, an' the video pipeline be published right here, not discovered in a teardown.
Around 10 live sources, composited side by side and laid out automatically as sources join and leave. The ceiling is memory on the chassis, not a license: nothing in the software counts sources or refuses one.
Yes. The room's camera and microphone attach to the pod over USB, and the pod bridges them into a Teams, Zoom, Webex or Meet call brought in from a laptop. Link is a software bridge between the laptop in BYOM and the Pro, and the Pro is what controls the room's cameras and peripherals. That is why Link needs a Pro.
Essentials runs the same Polaris software as Pro: the same workspace, the same cloud, the same security posture. The differences are the chassis, not the platform.
Essentials: one HDMI output, no HDMI input, no USB, no audio out. Pro: dual HDMI output, HDMI input, 2x USB 3.0 Type-C host, analog audio out.
Yes. Cross-network sharing is included on every Polaris tier. Cloud-negotiated direct connections, with outbound-only TLS signaling on TCP 443: no VPN, and no inbound firewall rule.
Yes. Polaris Pro has an HDMI input. An HDMI source joins the workspace as a tile by default. Direct bypass takes the glass full screen and keeps that feed in the room.
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