Our 2020 Audio Visual Case Study Review has landed! Featuring ESTA, Toorak College, Presbyterian Ladies’ College and Ave Maria College, our Case Study Review takes a deep dive into some of our more recent AV-mazing installations of 2020.
Click here to read the review in full.
Last week, the team at Vision One visited Integrate in Sydney to learn more about the innovative range of upcoming technologies for the audio visual and information technology industry.
We checked in with our usual favourites and browsed through everything from holographic imaging technology to larger-than-life indoor and outdoor signage panel displays. Our pals at Quantum Sphere showed off their new Kaptivo Whiteboard Camera while the guys at Epson blew us away with their new range of lasers and and LightScene projectors.
The big take-aways from this year? Lamps are slowly disappearing from projectors, pixel pitches are smaller than ever, and if your conferencing and collaboration solution doesn’t play nice with every software platform, you’re in for a world of trouble!
Take a look at some of the highlights in the video walkthrough above!
We’ve done a couple of pretty cool things so far in 2018. Check out our 3D Photo Gallery Video to learn more!
Userful turns a standard PC into a flexible and powerful video wall controller that delivers visually stunning video wall displays over the network with unparalleled simplicity and ease, at an affordable price. With Userful you can:
Userful video walls use standard, off-the-shelf server or PC hardware and network zero client devices connected over a standard gigabit Ethernet network. Single install setup turns a standard Intel Core i7 PC into a browser-managed video wall controller. Optionally add extra Nvidia video cards which are used by Userful software to offload video rendering thereby increasing the power of the PC and the number of screens and size of content supported.
Arrange video walls in standard grid or artistic formats. Rotate individual displays to any angle to create a unique video wall.
Add virtually unlimited content inputs from just about any source: Local CMS player, Live TV, RTSP, RDP, VNC, an interactive desktop or full screen browser or just about any content using one or more HDMI or SDI capture cards.
Preset zone support allows for the display of simultaneous content streams on specified displays within the video wall which can be changed on the fly as needed.
With a single touch customers can instantly change the content playing on the video wall using a smart phone or tablet.
Userful has a powerful suite of control tools. Administrator can preset zone and content options for all displays, and then staff are able to invoke those presets using a tablet or smartphone switching content and zones across all video walls and displays with a single touch. Userful also allows users to control the mouse and keyboard of an interactive video wall from a smartphone or tablet. Ths effectively turns every video wall into a touch video wall.
The Userful platform began as a virtual desktop solution, reducing the cost and simplifying desktop deployments around the world. Delivering cost effective centralized and virtualized desktops however was just the beginning for Userful. Since then, we’ve developed our software platform to do amazing things for displays of all kinds. Userful also supports high performance video walls, digital signs and locked down kiosks that are easy to manage, cost effective to deploy. From interactive video walls, to artistic, mosaic-style video walls, or simple control room applications, Userful is a high-end video wall controller that makes it easy to synchronize and add intelligence to displays.
panGenerator based in Poland have created a new kinetic audio video sculpture for Disney that takes the form of a Mickey Mouse inspired installation, which can be seen in action in the video embedded below.
Named the MICKEYPHON the installation has been created to listen for sounds in its surroundings and will then rotate into the direction. It then samples them to create and playback rhythmic patterns based upon the sound that it has heard.
Its developers explain a little more about the inspiration and functionality of this very unique interactive kinetic installation.
The visuals displayed on the custom cylindrical RGB LED matrix are audio-reactive, tightly integrated with the music output of the installation. The piece invites both children and adults to experiment with creating sounds using their voices,
clapping their hands or using the provided instruments and observe their influence on the kinetic, visual and audiatory output of the sculpture.
Jump over to the panGenerator website for more projects created by the team and more details about the MICKEYPHON which was inspired by Mickey Mouse and created for Disney.
Infrastructure developments and the mega projects in the region are boosting spending on audio visual solutions and major vendors are gearing up to reap the harvest.
From high-definition slim bezel signage monitors to a range of intelligent, interactive LED displays, the market is embracing modernity, simplicity in design and intelligent innovation.
Ravinder Kumar, general manager of business solutions network at Sharp Middle East, told Gulf News that the industry is in a consistently growing trajectory.
“We need to discount the ongoing drop in oil prices but the overall audio visual industry is growing. The infrastructure projects in the region are promising for many years to come. The biggest countries are Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar,” he said.
Led by products, equipment, and services for megaprojects and events such as World Expo 2020 in Dubai, 2022 Fifa World Cup Qatar, and transport and Smart Cities projects in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, the hospitality and retail sectors are set to see the most benefit.
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According to trade association InfoComm International, the Middle East’s audio visual market is set to post one of the world’s fastest growth rates after Asia, increasing by 76 per cent from $1.57 billion (Dh5.8 billion) in 2012 to $2.76 billion in 2016.
The audio visual market for the Middle East and Africa region is set to reach $4.63 billion by 2016, out of this the GCC is expected to contribute more than $300 million.
Buoyancy of growth
Audio visual technology covers every industry vertical, and can include high-definition displays and projectors, lighting to sound systems, and streaming and webcasting technology.
Kumar said that the buoyancy of growth has been predominant in health care and education besides infrastructure. Retailing sector has been strong due to the malls, theme parks and entertainment parks.
Sharp has launched the world’s first 8K TV and the world’s largest 120-inches 4K commercial screen, which is worth $250,000.
“We are looking at multiple sectors for the 120-inch screen, predominantly for high-security area control rooms and for some high-profile customers to use it homes,” Kumar said.
Richard Tan, Executive Director, InfoComm Asia Pte Ltd, said that the UAE is a hub for entertainment and sports, with its audio visual market for venues and events crossing $50 million by 2016.
“The Middle East posting one of the world’s fastest growth rates in audio visual technology shows that we’ve gone from an era of talking about the benefits of audio visual technology, to organisations actually purchasing solutions — whether high-definition displays for exhibition sites and stadiums, virtual check-in kiosks at hotels, or security systems for metro projects,” he said.
Robert Nurgberg, director of Marketing (B2B) at LG Middle East and Africa, said that the industry is going to explode in the next couple of years. The biggest sector for video walls is retail and transportation sectors.
Pizza Hut in Hong Kong has brought movies and pizza together with its new Blockbuster Box Pizza, which can instantly turn into a smartphone-powered LCD projector. Ogilvy Hong Kong spearheaded the creation of the box for Pizza Hut’s new marketing stunt.
The pizza table inside the special Blockbuster boxes features a lens, which can be inserted into the side of the box after the perforated hole is punched out, reported Business Insider.
Once the lens is in place, use a smartphone as the movie source. Place it in the center of the box and the lens will magnify the image from the phone screen and project it onto a wall.
In addition to the LCD projector, the boxes also have a QR code for one of four downloadable movies. The movies’ genres correspond to the box ordered: Slice Night (horror), Anchovy Armageddon (science-fiction), Hot & Ready (romance) and Fully Loaded (action).
Video caption: The new Science Teaching and Student Services building at the University of Minnesota will have 10 Active Learning Classrooms. Active Learning Classrooms allow for students to experience a more interactive and conversational educational environment. With round tables for discussion and high-tech accessories for interactivity, these classrooms will service more than 125 class sections this fall.
We’ve all come to learn how impactful technology is on the classroom. Often, when teachers are willing to make the transition, students can develop engaging and responsive habits from learning with technologies.
The above video expresses the imagination of its content creator, pointing to a classroom of the future. And believe it or not, this fictitious environment is really not all that far away as you may think!
The integration of technology in education can often offer a strenuous challenge for some adopters. The above graphic illustration outlines 8 things to look for in today’s classroom, paying close attention to the impact that various technologies have on classroom learning.
