The work continues · After Shared Studios
As if in the same room.
Noro carries the Shared Studios exploration of presence across distance into the permanent built environment — workplaces and schools rather than shipping containers in public squares.
We build life-size video walls that put distant colleagues in the same room, restoring the eye contact, body language, and spontaneous encounters that conventional video calls leave out. You do not join a Noro room. You walk into it, and someone four thousand miles away is standing there at full height, looking at you.
Presence is not a feature of the software. It is a property of the room.
The difference is almost entirely physical. Life size rather than a grid of heads. Eye line at eye line, so a glance reads as a glance. Full body, so people gesture, lean, pace, and stand next to each other at a whiteboard. And always on, so the encounters nobody scheduled can happen again.
What the room does
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Life-size presence
Full-body and eye-to-eye at true scale. No headsets, no avatars, nothing to put on or set up before a conversation can start.
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Real work, not just talk
Whiteboarding, screen sharing, and tools built for design reviews, all-hands, client pitches, and standups.
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Always open
A persistent connection between two places, so the walk-up conversation that scheduled meetings killed can happen again.
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Fits what you run
Integrated with Zoom, Teams, and Daily, with an AI layer that surfaces what came out of the room and keeps distributed teams aligned.
Why it exists
Built for how teams actually work with a grid.
Distributed teams did not lose meetings. Meetings survived the move to video perfectly well. What they lost was everything around meetings — the corridor, the doorway lean, the moment two people who needed to talk happened to be standing in the same place.
Those encounters were not inefficiency. They were where trust was built and where most useful information actually traveled. Video calls, by design, only carry the scheduled part.
Noro is the commercial descendant of Shared Studios: the same discovery about human presence, rebuilt for how teams and schools actually work rather than for a public square.
If meeting in person is a 10 out of 10, and Zoom and Teams is a 4, Noro is an 8 — almost like the real thing.
Nick Bloom · Professor of Economics, Stanford University
It's an amazing technology, making it seem like you're standing right in front of me.
Barack Obama
Relationship to the wider investigation
Shared Studios established the finding: put two people together at full scale, with nothing between them, and they reach for each other — nearly a million times, across 77 sites in 43 countries. The gold container made the point in public, as an artwork.
The limitation of an artwork is that it visits. Noro takes the same physics of presence and makes it permanent infrastructure in the places people are already every day — an office, a campus, a classroom.
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Noro connects offices with life-size video walls — no headsets, no scheduling friction. See the product and request a demo.