Garth Lobban provides an overview of Extron’s latest audio products and technologies from their Audio Demo Room at the InfoComm 2010 tradeshow in Las Vegas. Highlighted are their surround sound and digital signal processing products, along with a demonstration of the powerful, intuitive software used to configure them. Also featured are the XTRA™ Series of ENERGY STAR® qualified amplifiers and the Extron exclusive, patented Flat Field® ceiling speakers. View this video by clicking here.
Modelworks, an architectural presentation company based in Blackrock, Co. Dublin launched their interactive Media Model of Dublin City at MIPIM, Cannes in March 2011. Digicom collaborated with Modelworks in recommending the ultra-thin bezel displays utilised. It has been received to great acclaim and for the video please see www.modelworks.ie
CDW which sells tech to business, government, education and health care concerns, conducted a Video Conferencing Straw Poll Report recently, finding not only that half the companies surveyed use some form of video conferencing today, but that “another quarter plan to implement the technology within the next two years.”
Within the next two years, survey officials report, “almost half of those surveyed indicate that they plan to implement immersive telepresence,” which uses high-definition, life size images to simulate an in-person meeting. It approximates “the sensation of being at the same table with users spread across multiple locations,” according to CDW officials.
This is consistent with robust interest in communications technology recently: According to TMC’s Rajani Baburajan, Unified Communications implementation rates doubled from 2010 to 2011, with 16 percent of organizations fully implemented, according to another study from CDW.
“According to 76 percent of organizations that fully implemented UC, their ROI has met or exceeded their expectations – up 5 percent since 2010,” Baburajan wrote.
Video conferencing adoption is being driven mainly by reduced operating costs, naturally, since it does cut out a great deal of business travel expense. Also cited as reasons for adopting the technology, the survey found, were “improved decision making” and “improved communication.”
The survey concluded that video conferencing will branch out beyond simple peer-to-peer devices into “more cutting-edge collaborative video conferencing systems, such as immersive telepresence.” Desktop and multisite meeting rooms are the main video conferencing tools for companies now, the survey found, adding that “IT managers show increasing interest in immersive telepresence.”Article from TCMnet