HoverCam Wins Three 2026 Best of InfoComm Awards
HoverCam Wins Three 2026 Best of InfoComm Awards
InstaCast, Pilot 8, and DreamLink recognized as award-winning solutions for meeting rooms, higher education, and K-12 classrooms
HoverCam is proud to announce a major milestone at InfoComm 2026: three HoverCam solutions have been selected as winners in the 2026 Best of InfoComm Awards.
This year’s winning entries include:
Best Meeting Room System:
InstaCast Wireless Conference Room System
Best Solution for Higher Education:
Pilot 8 Wireless Digital Podium
Best Solution for K-12:
DreamLink Wireless Casting Solution
For HoverCam, this is more than an awards announcement. It is a validation of a simple idea we have been building toward for years: presentation technology should be powerful, flexible, and beautifully simple to use.
No complicated setup. No unnecessary software. No cable chaos. No wasted time.
Just smarter ways to connect, present, teach, and collaborate.
A historic moment at InfoComm
InfoComm has always been a place where the future of AV is revealed. This year, HoverCam is proud to introduce two brand-new solutions to the market for the first time: InstaCast and Pilot 8.
Both products are making their official debut at InfoComm 2026 — and both are already award winners.
Together with DreamLink, these solutions represent the next evolution of HoverCam’s wireless ecosystem for classrooms, campuses, training spaces, and enterprise meeting rooms.
Best Meeting Room System: InstaCast Wireless Conference Room System
Modern meeting rooms are filled with powerful technology, but too often, the user experience is still frustrating.
Someone walks into the room. They need to present. They need to start a video call. They need the room camera, microphone, speaker, and display to work with their laptop. Instead, they are met with adapters, software downloads, login prompts, broken wireless connections, or a call that starts five minutes late.
InstaCast was built to end that experience.
The InstaCast Wireless Conference Room System gives teams a true plug-and-play meeting room experience. Users simply connect their laptop to the InstaCast console with a single USB-C or HDMI cable and instantly take control of the room’s AV system.
The 4K InstaCast video bar’s beamforming microphone array, speaker, and room displays appear as native hardware to the user’s laptop. That means InstaCast works with the platforms teams already use — including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and other conferencing applications. Simply put: connect your laptop to the console, and the conference room’s camera shows up like a USB webcam for your laptop.
No apps.
No drivers.
No passwords.
No waiting.
With InstaCast, meeting rooms become easier for employees, simpler for IT teams, and more flexible for the entire organization. It is BYOM — Bring Your Own Meeting — without the usual friction.
Best Solution for Higher Education: Pilot 8 Wireless Digital Podium
Higher education spaces need to do more than display content. They need to support movement, engagement, hybrid instruction, flexible teaching styles, and fast transitions between presenters.
That is why HoverCam created Pilot 8, the Wireless Digital Podium built to supercharge the presenter’s laptop and give instructors more freedom at the front of the room.
Pilot 8 combines a large 27” multitouch display, single-cable laptop connectivity, all-day battery support, generous workspace, secure laptop storage, and a height-adjustable mobile podium design.
Instructors can connect their laptop with one USB-C cable and instantly gain a mini IFP display at their fingertips. The podium keeps the presenter’s content, controls, laptop, mouse, keyboard, and teaching tools within reach — helping instructors stay engaged with the room instead of being stuck behind a fixed desk or tangled in cables.
When bundled with DreamLink, Pilot 8 can wirelessly cast to an interactive flat panel, projector, or HDMI display with true plug-and-play simplicity.
For lecture halls, classrooms, training centers, and collaborative learning spaces, Pilot 8 gives presenters the freedom to teach from anywhere while keeping the technology experience clean, professional, and easy to manage.
Best Solution for K-12: DreamLink Wireless Casting Solution
Classroom technology should make teaching easier. Too often, wireless casting solutions do the opposite.
They require software installation. They depend on network access. They create IT headaches. They add subscriptions. They force teachers to troubleshoot instead of teach.
DreamLink was designed to make classroom casting simple again.
DreamLink delivers plug-and-play wireless casting with no software, no drivers, no subscriptions, and no complicated network setup. It uses HoverCam’s patented InvisiWire™ wireless-wired hybrid architecture to turn familiar wired USB and HDMI connections into wireless links.
To the teacher’s computer, the remote display appears like a local HDMI monitor. A camera across the room can appear like a local USB webcam. The experience feels wired — but with the freedom of wireless.
For K-12 classrooms, that means teachers can present from more places in the room, reduce cable clutter, connect to displays more easily, and keep instruction moving without technical interruptions.
For IT teams, DreamLink offers a simpler and safer way to deploy wireless classroom connectivity without adding unnecessary complexity to the school network.
Three wins. One clear direction.
InstaCast, Pilot 8, and DreamLink were created for different environments — meeting rooms, higher education, and K-12 classrooms — but they share the same HoverCam DNA.
They are built to make technology disappear into the experience.
In the meeting room, that means walking in, plugging in, and starting the call.
In the lecture hall, that means giving instructors a flexible digital podium that moves with the way they teach.
In the classroom, that means letting teachers cast and connect without software, passwords, subscriptions, or complicated setup.
The result is a more natural way to present, teach, meet, and collaborate.
Thank you for being part of the HoverCam journey
These awards belong not only to our product teams, but also to the educators, IT leaders, AV professionals, administrators, partners, and customers who continue to push us forward.
Your feedback, challenges, classrooms, campuses, and meeting spaces shape what we build next.
Thank you for being part of the HoverCam journey. These wins are a celebration of what we are building together — simpler technology, smarter spaces, and more freedom for the people who use them every day.
See the award-winning solutions from HoverCam at InfoComm 2026.
Explore the winners:
InstaCast Wireless Conference Room System
Pilot 8 Wireless Digital Podium
DreamLink Wireless Casting Solution