Logitech Spotlight 2 – First Look – Vesa Nopanen – Future Work today

Presenting is an enormous a part of my work and neighborhood activities- both in-person or on-line. I’m doing displays to prospects, main workshops, on stage at conferences, in neighborhood occasions, and naturally in numerous Groups conferences. For in-person occasions a superb presentation clicker is a type of instruments you need to to have with you, particularly if you happen to do extra displays,. To the purpose that you simply don’t take into consideration an excessive amount of till you discover you forgot it dwelling ( by no means once more!). I’ve additionally borrowed mine to fellow presenters fairly a many occasions. The unique MVP-branded Logitech Highlight has been my trusted companion for years. It has good options, such because the highlight.

Now there’s a new one: Logitech Highlight 2, introduced early June 2026 – that’s this week. And this isn’t only a refresh: the brand new clicker ( the right time period by Logitech is Superior presenter with haptics) provides you haptic suggestions you may really feel in your hand, one pressure-sensitive button that’s each pointer and highlight (no extra selecting between them!), an actual laser, a timer that vibrates when your time is working out, lengthy battery life, a USB-C dongle finally — and even a built-in respiration train designed that will help you focus and really feel extra assured earlier than stepping on stage.

I used to be fortunate to get to check it already — thanks Logitech! Let’s take a better look.

1. Design – familiar, but looking more business
2. Setup – could not be easier
3. The Highlight button – this is where it gets good
4. The classic clicker features are all included
5. Timer alerts and a breathing exercise?
6. Materials and sustainability
7. Verdict

Design – acquainted, however wanting extra enterprise

Once you put Highlight 2 subsequent to the unique Highlight, the size doesn’t differ a lot — the brand new one is definitely barely shorter (125 mm vs 131.3 mm, primarily based on launch specs). The larger distinction is that Highlight 2 is thicker (13.5 mm vs 12.1 mm) and a bit wider, and that may be a good factor: it has a very nice really feel and matches the hand effectively. And it appears actually good and is extra business-style than my golden Highlight 1.

They share the acquainted concept: the dongle is removable from the distant itself. However right here is the good half — Highlight 2 has a USB-C dongle (Logi Bolt receiver)! No extra looking for a USB-A port on a contemporary laptop computer. You may as well join over Bluetooth, and charging is USB-C too.

And I do just like the battery life: a full cost ought to last as long as three months and one minute of charging ought to offer you three hours of presenting. I particularly like this quick charging possibility, since you may overlook to cost it because the battery life is so good. Nevertheless, I might level out: cost Highlight 2, similar to Highlight 1, usually even when you’re not utilizing it. I’ve heard Highlight 1 brick after not getting used for yr or longer time, as they may not be charged in regular means once more. I’m not positive if this may occur with Highlight 2, however I might not threat it. And we all know – clickers love when they’re used, so let’s go on and do displays utilizing them!

One factor I do miss: Highlight 2 doesn’t include a storage sleeve like the unique did. After all, as it’s thicker, a sleeve wouldn’t be so elegant with it — however I received used to having one because it was holding house for clicker in my bag.

Setup – couldn’t be simpler

Setup is very easy. Home windows robotically tries to attach the Highlight 2 when it’s taken to make use of. When you have Logi Choices+ put in, you simply go there and might change settings and customise your Highlight 2. Choices+ additionally walks you thru a pleasant onboarding that reveals what each button does. Be sure you install Logi Options+!

The Spotlight button – that is the place it will get good

The big contact space on prime — the Spotlight button — is the guts of Highlight 2, and what I like is the haptic suggestions when utilizing it. There are two press ranges, and they’re intuitive:

• Mushy press (half-press) reveals the digital pointer on the slide
• Onerous press (full press) triggers the spotlight impact — by default the traditional Highlight impact that dims the slide and places a vibrant circle the place you level

This can be a actual improve: with the unique Highlight you had to decide on between the pointer and the spotlight impact. Now you get each, on the identical button, simply with totally different strain. Totally different press ranges even give totally different haptic suggestions, so that you all the time know which one you activated.

The laborious press impact is configurable in Choices+ to different results too: Squarelight, Enlarge (the nice previous magnifier!), or Annotate for drawing on slides. I take advantage of the spotlight in my displays — it’s good for doing precisely what the identify says: highlighting content material on the slide.

With gentle press you may allow cursor management, which helps you to work together with movies and hyperlinks through the presentation. Once you gentle press the highlight-button, you see the digital pointer. Proceed to quick laborious press when you’re on the hyperlink. Then you’ll do a brief laborious press once more to open the hyperlink.

I do have gotten used to highlight impact, in order that will probably be my default on. What I do discover to be a missed alternative is that Logitech may have added a swap to Highlight 2 to change between totally different Onerous press modes, so I may choose which modes would have been within the “loop”. I might have liked to have the ability to swap between highlight, enlarge and annotate.

As a tip for Logitech, it could be nice if the aspect button double-click can be configurable sooner or later. Now it’s mounted for Respiration Expertise, however somebody like me would like to reconfigure it to change between laborious press spotlight modes. After all, because the Respiration Expertise is one in every of key highlights ( pun supposed!) of Highlight 2, I don’t assume that can occur however we will all the time give suggestions and hope for the most effective!

The traditional clicker options are all included

• Press and maintain motion button for Laser pointer! An actual, bodily Class 1 laser — lengthy press the aspect Motion button.
• Again and ahead buttons work rather well in PowerPoint after all. Buttons additionally work in Microsoft Groups conferences when utilizing Groups PowerPoint Stay — BUT it’s important to have the concentrate on the slide space for this to work. As soon as the main target is there, you should use the clicker in Groups conferences too – helpful when presenting standing. However keep in mind: it’s all concerning the concentrate on this one!
• You may go ahead with presentation with a brief laborious press utilizing spotlight button, so no want to make use of ahead button because the spotlight button is bigger and your thumb is on it naturally when presenting. Identical to with Highlight 1. Nevertheless – this additionally requires that the main target is on presentation space so it’s extra dependable to make use of ahead button than this.
• Begin and finish presentation with a single click on of the aspect button. Though I do really feel the top presentation might be dangerous — one unintended click on and your slideshow is gone. The nice is you can get again to presenting rapidly by urgent it once more.

After all you may configure the motion button to do different actions than beginning and ending presentation.

I didn’t configure Good actions to it but, however these open neat choices the right way to customise the Highlight 2 higher for private use. Personally, I believe I’ll maintain it on beginning and ending presentation, or change it to Do nothing.

Timer alerts and a respiration train?

Highlight 2 additionally has a presentation timer with haptic alerts: set your presentation period in Choices+ and the distant vibrates in your hand when you could have 5 minutes left, 1 minute left, or no matter alerts you configure. No extra glancing on the clock when you’re doing only a presentation.

What I discover I’m lacking right here, is the flexibility to reset the timer. I often open and thus begin the presentation earlier than the session begins, so getting this to be precisely the time would require beginning the presentation simply on time. A button to start out or reset the timer would have been a pleasant addition ( wink at Logitech).

After which one thing I didn’t anticipate from a clicker: a Respiration Expertise. Double-click the Motion button and Highlight 2 guides you thru a chilled respiration train with haptic pulses and visible cues in Choices+, that will help you focus earlier than your massive presentation. Logitech says 64% of individuals admit to feeling extremely nervous earlier than a presentation, so I perceive why this exists. I didn’t strive it but — what I do after I current at occasions is converse and chat with the viewers members beforehand to make the sensation relaxed. But when respiration workouts are your factor, your distant now does that too!

Supplies and sustainability

Yet another factor that deserves its personal chapter: how Highlight 2 is made. Logitech says sustainability has been a key criterion all through each stage of the product improvement — and it reveals within the supplies. The housing is made with low-carbon aluminum produced utilizing renewable vitality, and the plastic elements comprise 43% licensed post-consumer recycled plastic. In different phrases, this isn’t a tool manufactured from virgin supplies: an enormous a part of it already had a earlier life, and the supplies have been chosen to allow them to have one once more. Even the packaging is FSC-certified paper as a substitute of plastic.

I actually like that pondering like this occurs already on the drafting board, with the entire lifecycle of the system in thoughts — not solely the years it spends in your hand. A presentation distant is one thing you retain for a very long time, so it feels proper and when its day lastly comes, Logitech guides you to recycle the battery correctly — extra at logitech.com/recycling.

Verdict

Highlight 2 is a worthy successor: USB-C, pointer and spotlight on one intuitive button, haptic suggestions, all of the traditional options nonetheless there — and made in a accountable means on prime of it. Spotlight 2 is available now from Logitech. Additionally examine for extra specs in Logitech web site.

I’ve to say Highlight 2 has already gained me over, already even with a short while I had it. I can’t wait to take it on stage in entrance of a stay viewers!

After all I will probably be retaining my previous Highlight as effectively — it has the MVP branding on it! However it will likely be the brand new Highlight 2 that goes into my bag after I head out to current stay subsequent time.

Thanks Logitech for letting me check Highlight 2 — that is precisely the form of mild the Luminaries neighborhood is all about. #LogiLumi

Revealed by Vesa Nopanen

Vesa “Vesku” Nopanen, Principal Guide and Microsoft MVP (Microsoft 365 and Azure AI Foundry) engaged on Future Work at Sulava MEA.

I work, weblog and discuss Future Work : AI, Microsoft 365, Copilot, Loop, Azure, and different providers & platforms within the cloud connecting digital and bodily and folks collectively.

I’ve 30 years of expertise in IT enterprise on a number of industries, domains, and roles.
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