Digicom Technology News

InfoComm is the AV industry event where new products and services are launched and new industry trends are first observed and detected. InfoComm 2012 had 34,268 AV professionals attending from more than 90 countries. This represents a four percent increase in attendance over InfoComm 2011.There were 933 exhibitors participating this year. Below are some of Digicom's highlights.

SMART Technology's booth at InfoComm was extremely popular, and with good reason. As one of the pioneers of the industry, their solutions have had more actual use (and testing… and R&D) in the field than most of their competitors. Perhaps more significantly, SMART offers its Bridgit conference software, which connects SMARTboards together for interactive whiteboarding and doubles as a cost-effective web conferencing tool allows for the sharing of any application being used on a board.

Cisco Synch is a clever little black box that intuitively integrates interactive whiteboards with Cisco TelePresence. One of the problems with using interactive whiteboards with a video call is the board must be calibrated. Often the board needs to do double duty as a display as well and when you minimize the board to add video the minimized board needs to be recalibrated. Cisco Synch eliminated this and allows format of the board to change throughout the meeting while keeping the board calibrated for both whiteboarding and as a touch screen peripheral.



WolfVision introduced the VZ-C3D, the world’s first 3D visualizer, a 3D stereoscopic ‘live’ presentation solution. The VZ-C3D visualizer is ceiling mounted, and features two high-precision lenses and an onboard stereoscopic mixer. Real-time ‘live’ high-definition 3D images can be viewed in amazing quality, with or without glasses on any suitable 3D-enabled display screen.


12X optical zoom capability ensures that items of all sizes can be picked up quickly and easily, and the synchronised lightfield which is projected onto the working surface means that it’s also easy to find correct positioning for display materials. A frame rate of 30fps ensures smoothness of motion, and 3D images are output via HDMI in native 1080p format. The VZ-C3D can also be switched to output standard 2D images in 1080p format if required.

Wolfvision believes the device could be useful in specialist medical and telemedical applications, product design and engineering, science and education, videoconferencing and telepresence applications.

Sennheiser has unveiled its first microphone that employs Audio-Video Bridging (AVB) technology, making it one of the first companies to use this technology in a product.

The microphone was developed as part of a study – it it still a prototype and will not be available in this form as a product on the market. However, Sennheiser believes the successful outcome of the study proves that high-quality audio can be transmitted into a digital Ethernet network without problems.