The Mimo Vue features modern zero bezel design, nearly 180-degree viewing angle from its bright, high-contrast IPS screen, and a resolution of 1280×800.  It includes a 10-point projected capacitive touch panel for developing an intuitive human interface. With cable management built into the 1.3kg/3lb base, the Mimo Vue HD allows for a clean tabletop installation. It also readily supports VESA 75 mounting, as well as easy installation in almost any environment.

This system is primarily engineered for commercial and corporate user operations, offering a powerhouse system in a sleek profile that minimizes clutter and enhances the user experience.

Add to that TanvasTouch. Tanvas technology is not a typical haptic application. While traditional haptic technology utilizes vibrations to provide a sense of “touch,” Tanvas technology does much more.

“It’s about using friction, which is really the main force between your skin and the surface, and manipulating it in conjunction with the finger’s movement,” says Ed Colgate, Co-Founder and CEO of Tanvas. “The sorts of things you feel are textures, the edge of something, events such as hitting a ball or flicking a switch, and you can even create the allusion of shape on a surface. Even though that surface is perfectly flat, with our technology you can create a pattern of forces that your brain interprets as subtle shapes on the surface.”

Devices that are touch-enabled by Tanvas can both provide and receive touch input. While traditional haptic technology uses only vibration to simulate feel, Tanvas technology modulates friction, the ability to both sense finger position and provide haptics simultaneously, the ultra-low latency of sensing to product haptic response with no perceived lag, and the haptic waveforms that produce life-like effects.

We spoke with David Anderson, President and CEO of Mimo Monitors, to discuss the new technology and the company’s new product at InfoComm 2019.

Why is it important to showcase a product like the Mimo Vue with TanvasTouch at a tradeshow like InfoComm?

The product is important for the AV industry and thousands of people will be able to experience it at Infocomm.  Experiencing it is key. It is hard to describe in words because people do not have the context, or anything to compare it to because it is so unique/revolutionary/cutting edge. It is a mind-blowing experience.

What can attendees visiting the booth expect in terms of testing out the system live on the show floor?

It will be 100% functional, and we will have production units in the booth. There will be no ‘trade show magic’, or ‘vapor-ware’ going on. Of course they can’t get a sense of what it’s like to develop haptics because there isn’t time to do that, but there are several demos they can experience.

Why should integrators stop by the booth to experience Mimo Vue?

The technology is so new and mind blowing, if they do not experience it, they can’t get a good idea, via description, of the experience. Once they get the experience, the gears in their heads can start moving around places, clients, installations where this technology would be perfect. They can be the first to use, deploy and install a technology that will be getting a lot of attention. The technology has already won awards such as the Cannes Lion Award. Wouldn’t they want to be associated with award winning technology?

Why should end users stop by the booth to experience Mimo Vue?

For exactly that reason. To experience it. I think it’s kind of the same as above except they are the ones necessarily deploying it.

What can we expect from Mimo Monitors and Mimo Vue once InfoComm 2019 is over?

The Mimo Vue with TanvasTouch is being officially announced at Infocomm, and will be shipping Q3. The development and engineering is done, we are just buttoning up the last few things and building a ‘production’ sized run. We will be accepting pre-orders immediately.

Future plans for the Mimo Vue is to add AV over IP capabilities to it. Expect that by the fall.

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Let’s take a closer look at each of the pieces that make this underwater-themed interactive tech environment so distinct:

Virtual Sea Life

A virtual world of underwater sea life including sea turtles, stingrays, an octopus, a variety of fish and more can be discovered while exploring the virtual ocean display.

Customers can tap the bar top screen and encounter an overzealous shark, find the lost city of Atlantis or pose for a selfie with a camera-friendly dolphin.

Gaming Mode

Periodically, one of three games will appear at the Re:Match bar screens to challenge those seated around it — save the Las Vegas Strip from an alien invasion, catch falling money from FLYLINQ riders, or capture the most chicken wings in the “Sticky Chicken For President” game.

Arena Space

Pulse Arena combines luxury electronic gaming machines with an immersive audio-visual entertainment experience. Within the Pulse environment, players can enjoy a variety of electronic casino games either as an individual experience or play socially with friends.

• Tic tac toe – against a stone monster, futuristic robot, or even a crafty velociraptor
• Paper, Rock, Scissors
• Pop ‘em – popping as many balloons as players can within the time limit, but avoiding the score-busting bombs

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Touch Panel Performance: Speed over Quantity

Until recently, the concept of touch panel performance revolved around the number of touch points, with conventional wisdom positing that two touch points were not enough. To enhance touch performance and thus the teacher experience, the more touch points the better – why have two touch points when you could have 10, 20 or 30 touch points?

As Jystad sees it, that argument doesn’t hold up. When it comes to touch performance, “what matters is how natural the experience is,” he says. “The less a teacher is distracted by or has to think about how to draw on a screen, the more the teacher can focus on the task at hand.” That focus is directly correlated to how much a teacher enjoys using a touch panel. And while enjoyment is subjective, speed is a major factor. Even a brief delay in getting a response after touching the screen can be a distraction. Such delays – measured in milliseconds – are subtle, yet a teacher will perceive the difference between a slower system and a fast one.  Indeed, teachers have shifted the debate on performance to focus on the the overall speed of the touch screen.

The highly responsive systems on the market tended to be cost prohibitive for the mainstream, says Jystad.  Fast response at an affordable price will be a feature of the upcoming JTouch platform. “We’ll be offering tier 1 touch – the kind that feels instantaneous – in a cost-effective platform,” Jystad says.

Managing the Local Class Network

Another sticking point: controlling student access to the internet. Students today have grown up with the internet, and they will peruse it unfettered if allowed. In the classroom, giving students free reign is an invitation for disciplinary issues between students and teachers.

By the same token, there is great value in engaging kids with the content available on the internet. Thus, in the classroom there must be capabilities where the teacher can present rich, meaningful content that engages the students via participatory actions. When it comes to content presented in the classroom, students, says Jystad “may want to comment on it, vote, share their own work or respond.”

Striking a balance requires that all devices are connected – whether Chromebooks, iPads or personal student device – on the same network as the touch panel. Yet it is the touch panel that is accessing the internet – hence the challenge of connecting students to the touch panel without access to the internet. This is typically accomplished by setting up two networks at the same time – a wired network for the touch panel, and a local classroom wifi network for the students.

There is one potential hiccup to this setup. “The touch panels running Android are simpler, and Android has not supported talking to two different networks at the same time,” says Jystad. In response, “we are bringing out a platform that will allow Android systems to connect to both a wired and a wireless network and to isolate the applications so that students only communicate on the wireless network.” Students’ devices automatically connect to the wireless network in the classroom, which in turn connects to the touch panel on the wired network.  Students can fully participate in the lesson easily and safely – interacting with internet-based content without accessing the internet itself. With the touch panel serving as a bridge between the safety of the wireless network and the internet-rich wired network, JTouch solutions provide reassurance for the teachers and engagement opportunities for students.

Keeping Power Consumption in Check

As touch panels proliferate, effectively managing power consumption is no small feat.  While the difference in power consumption between a touch panel that is switched off and one that is in sleep mode is minimal, multiplying a single device by thousands can add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in energy costs.

Many school districts have responded by having staff members physically walk around at the end of every day to switch off touch panels in every classroom.  While this is an effective strategy, it is hardly efficient or cost-effective.

JTouch allows educational customers to remotely control the power status of touch panels. Administrators can identify all the displays and manage them separately or in groups. Need to turn off some displays Monday through Friday at 5 p.m., and turn on others every Saturday at 9 a.m.?

This can be done via an automated schedule. By turning touch panels off when not in use, power consumption is effectively reduced to zero – potentially saving educational institutions significant amounts of money. “The opportunity to save money in a completely automated way is compelling to a large school district that has limited and fixed budgets,” says Jystad.

Relevant Content with the Power to Customize

With powerful touch panels and the full expanse of the internet at their disposal, teachers have more opportunities to present more content than ever before. The sheer volume of information can be problematic, as teachers still must devise lesson plans that are both compelling to students and relevant to the demands of the curriculum.

JTouch has partnered with independent software company Qwizdom to provide teachers with specialized tools for creating lesson plans and engaging students. Using the JTouch touch panel in conjunction with Qwizdom software, teachers can present content and dynamically control who has access to interact with that content on the screen. For their part, students can annotate the content on the classroom screen, review the material and share the information from their own device.

When it comes to creating a curriculum, JTouch also includes Qwizdom’s Oktopus software for generating digital curriculum and collaborating. Suppose a teacher wants to cover a unit on fractions; with Oktopus, the teacher can break the lesson into 20-to-30 steps depicted in different screens. The teacher can introduce concepts incrementally, and interact with the content dynamically, instructing the students in an engaging way. In addition, access to Oktopus includes a subscription to thousands of classes created by teachers that are specially designed for the assessment tests used throughout school districts. When teachers sign up for Oktopus, they provide information related to the state, school district, grade level and subject matter. In this way, the Oktopus subscription ensures the delivery of highly relevant content that is directly related to mandated assessments.

As a result, says Jystad, “teaching is hyper-customized and optimized for any school’s objectives.”

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Due to the nature of the kids’ background, the organization’s curriculum is tailored to make the most of classroom time and help them transition to the next chapter in their education. With that, technology is key, giving students a sense of inclusion and empowering them to feel confident while mastering new subjects and technology.

The Tech Decision

The school wanted an affordable display solution that would help engage every student while also helping kids master technology that they would face in the future.

“Our kids have a lot of hurdles to overcome when they come to New Horizons, and not just educational. We don’t want to add more stress to their lives, so we have to factor that into the classroom environment so it’s positive, enriching, and exciting. One of our biggest goals is ensuring these kids are comfortable when they move on and interact in an entirely new classroom,” says Shelley Williams, New Horizons’ Principal.

With that in mind, Williams attended a nearby charter school conference. One of the first booths she made sure to check out was BenQ. She had a great experience with the brand in the past and had heard testimonies of the company’s education solutions. Working with a limited budget, the BenQ team set down to assess what solutions would be the best fit.

In addition to helping expose kids to more technology, the solution had to address several other challenges.

First, it needed to be mounted away from curious hands as well as fit the small classrooms at New Horizons without any loss of brightness or picture quality. Second, because New Horizons often pairs up grade levels in one classroom, such as combining second and third grade students, teachers needed to be able to seamlessly and easily adapt content to teach each grade level. It also had to integrate with student response system as well as have interactive capabilities.

The Solution

Williams envisioned an integrated and interactive solution that would help kids live out the school’s Circle of Courage philosophy, which includes mastery of technology as a way to help kids fit in, feel like they belong, and achieve independence. Finally, they had to be quick and easy to install by the school’s maintenance team.

BenQ determined short-throw interactive projectors would be the best fit, including the MW826ST.

The unit was made for the rigors of the classroom. The projector is wall-mounted, so it would be out of reach of students. In addition, its short-throw capabilities meant that even from as little as three feet away, the projector would cast an engrossing 120-inch, interactive work surface with 3,400 high ANSI lumen brightness and WXGA resolution. Without dimming the lights, it would provide the perfect projection performance with every image and every letter crisp enough to see from the back of the classroom.

Designed for educators, it features easy operation that would eliminate any extra work for New Horizons’ teachers. In addition, it featured a deep toolbox to help make lessons stick in the minds of students, no matter the grade level.

BenQ’s PointWrite technology, for example, would allow New Horizons’ students to get excited solving math problems by transforming the surface into collaborative canvas. The projector’s QWrite annotation software would enable multiple students at a time to work, even allowing teachers to save and share students’ work as a JPEG, PNG, BMP, or PDF file that they could reference and study later.

With built-in templates, teachers would be able to quickly build lesson plans. Opportunities also abound since the projector features Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) support. Teachers would be able to connect them to a growing number of devices with an HDMI cable or wirelessly stream from devices, including Apple iPads, via BenQ’s QCast wireless dongle.

The Impact

Williams saw how her kids could hone their social and problem-solving skills while mastering advanced display technology. Because of the projector’s innovative infrared technology that enables the camera to detect finger or object movements, multiple students would feel comfortable and well supported to make annotations and answer questions. Its multi-touch technology also meant that her students would become familiar with common touch gestures such as zooming in and out or scrolling.

Finally, with an integrated quick-install feature, even the school’s general maintenance staff is able to setup the projectors in each classroom in under a half hour. The smart feature perfectly adjusts and calibrates the screen without staff having to spend hours manipulating the settings.

In addition to ease of setup, the school has the option of maintaining multiple BenQ projectors through LAN-based control systems. Other benefits included BenQ’s innovative SmartEco technology, which intelligently adjusts light output and conserves energy without compromising brightness or quality. This technology extends lamp life by up to 15,000 hours — three times the normal lamp life. An Eco Blank mode further increases energy savings by automatically dimming lamp power when blank. Together, these features make it a cost-effective and bright investment for students’ futures.

Since installing the projectors last fall, the school has seen an incredible response from staff and students. For the first time, staff is able to create curriculum that addresses the capabilities of students and gets them excited for their future. Teachers are using Istation’s richly animated, game-like educational tools as well as Kahoot in conjunction with a classroom response system. The science teacher has even built virtual labs, opening a safe and entertaining way for kids to learn more effectively.

“These interactive projectors are helping to create a sense of belonging, independence, and mastery in the classroom,” says Williams.

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MelodyVR makes it possible to do just that, but without sacrificing the great things out the concert-going experience, seeing it happen live, feeling the energy of the crowd, hearing the nuances of a performance personalized to the people attending the event  … and never again feeling the disappointment of a “sold out” show.

MelodyVR is the world’s first licensed virtual reality platform for music experiences. It has teamed up with major artists and record labels from across the globe to create content that’s consumed via a VR headset. Some of the artists involved include Imagine Dragons, AWOLNation, 5 Seconds of Summer and Post Malone.

“We are always looking for new ways to bring our fans into the live experience,” says Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons. “There are only so many days in a year and a lot of places to tour. Working with MelodyVR means we can give a more immersive experience to our fans who may not otherwise get to be there in person.”

Getting to be there is just one benefit. MelodyVR lets you experience the concert—be it an epic stadium show or an exclusive VIP session—to your exact preferences. Want a front row seat? No problem. Would you rather be in the crowd? That can happen too. You can go back stage, get close to the lead singer … MelodyVR makes it happen, and you won’t need to fork over big bucks for a primo ticket.

What you do need buy to bring the concert into your home is a VR headset. MelodyVR is currently available on Oculus Go and Samsung Gear headsets, but MelodyVR promises more option on the way soon.

With the headset and access to live streaming content, fans can enjoy a concert regardless of age, where they live, or budget. And never again will a show be sold out, as fans will be able to purchase a VR ticket regardless of a venue’s capacity.

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Gordon International collaborates with product development teams in Italy, their sales teams nationwide, and interior design clients across North America to develop new design solutions for the marketplace.

The Tech Decision

The Nureva Wall at Gordon International provides a 15′ (4.57 m) interactive multitouch surface that gives teams the room they need to collaborate effectively, while Span Workspace lets remote team members participate just as easily from personal devices.

The Nureva Wall combined with Span Workspace and the Nureva HDL300 audio conferencing system make it simpler and faster for these remote teams to work productively together on solutions to design challenges and to visualize their ideas and concepts on the expansive workspace.

Located in the renowned New York Design Center in Manhattan, this is Nureva’s first installation of its next-generation digital collaboration wall that began shipping this month.

The Solution

The Nureva visual collaboration solution combines Span Workspace with the Nureva Wall. It is designed to support highly collaborative activities that benefit from visualizing and interacting with information on a large surface, including structured processes such as agile, lean and design thinking. Span Workspace provides an expansive cloud-based digital canvas that can be tailored to suit virtually any collaborative activity. It draws upon familiar, simple and flexible tools including sticky notes, sketches, images, templates and screen sharing. Participants contribute and interact with the content using their personal devices, whether a computer, tablet or smartphone, or directly on the Nureva Wall or interactive display.

The Nureva Wall transforms collaborative spaces by creating large, ultrawide interactive surfaces that turn walls into expansive digital workspaces with high-performance multitouch and inking capabilities. The Nureva Wall is optimized for use with Span Workspace and can incorporate users’ preferred applications, including Microsoft Office, Adobe products and AutoCAD software. For more information, visit the visual collaboration section on the Nureva website.

The Impact

This third-generation Nureva Wall at Gordon International has replaced the first-generation Nureva Wall, which was one of the first installed when the product was introduced in 2016. Both installations were facilitated by Phi Services LLC, a collaborative technology consulting firm and an authorized Nureva reseller. Teams at Gordon International will use the Nureva Wall and Span Workspace, the system’s cloud-based visual collaboration service, during client meetings and training sessions, and at events such as first LOOK on July 18, New York’s annual contract product showcase for architects, designers and principals.

“Gordon International is at the forefront of furniture design, and we can’t think of a better showroom or location for the first installation of our next-generation Nureva Wall,” said Nancy Knowlton, Nureva’s CEO. “They were one of the early adopters when the Nureva Wall first entered the market two years ago, and we’re excited to see how they’ll continue to use this advanced solution to accelerate their collaborative processes.”

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The Tech Decision

A simulator allows a trainer to vary scenarios—by changing the weather, introducing obstacles on the line, incidents in stations, broken-down trains, or other things that affect the scheduling of movement of rolling stock. The trainer needs to monitor a trainee’s reaction(s) to a particular scenario, as it transpires. To be able to view the entire session later, for analyzing, and pinpointing areas of improvement, each individual trainee’s performance needs to be recorded as well.

The trainee operator’s signaling desk contains multiple monitors for the signaling application that shows, amongst other things, the state of the signals, dynamic speed limits, state of points on the track, and train positions. Additional screens from other collaborative applications, such as timetabling, are also displayed for the trainee. Trainers too have multiple screens where they define and manage the training scenario.

Thorough initial training and regular refresher courses in a realistic environment is essential to maintaining the signalers’ competency and knowledge of operating procedures. Siemens collaborated with Matrox to implement a unique, IP-based simulation environment for their European-rail-network client with an innovative use of streaming and recording of multiple video feeds.

The Solution

Siemens Rail Automation met their client’s need by leveraging Matrox’s video wall and enterprise encoding portfolio as building blocks to create an end-to-end, IP-based simulation system—all on the client’s 1 Gigabit Ethernet network.

At the individual trainee stations, “operator” workstations host a Matrox multi-display graphics card to power an eight-monitor, 4×2 desktop configuration. In the same PC system are two Matrox Maevex 6100 quad 4K enterprise encoder cards. Capable of simultaneously capturing, streaming, and recording up to four 4K inputs, Maevex 6100 in this case captures quad Full HD inputs, composites them as a single 4K signal, and streams them to a collaborative video wall. Doing so ensures that the time correlation between the individual screens is not lost—a cursor moving across a desktop from screen to screen is seen as it happens. This is important for the trainer to get a realistic picture. A jerky or delayed cursor movement could be construed by the trainer as indecision or hesitation on the part of the trainee. If the cursor movement by the trainee—including between screens—is smooth, it is imperative for it to be seen live and recorded as being smooth.

In addition to the above are three dual-monitor timetabling workstations and a quad-monitor trainer workstation, each with a Matrox graphics card and Maevex 6100 encoder card to stream desktop content to the collaborative display wall. The timetabling workstations are used by trainee timetable planners to make on-the-day changes. One of the training objectives is to support the team working between the signalers and planners.

On the video wall are 12 monitors in several arrangements that enable the trainer to control the simulation environment and monitor trainee signalers and planners. The video wall can also be used collaboratively to replay and review the training session. This is all from a single, low-footprint Blue Chip Ultima 2M system that hosts a combination of Matrox Mura IPX decoder cards and Matrox Mura MPX input/output video wall cards, which work together to seamlessly decode and display the various incoming streams. The rail network uses Matrox MuraControl for Windows video wall software to manage the incoming IP sources, presenting the information on the wall in a way that looks like the original setup at the trainee’s desk. These “video wall copies” allow trainers and other decision makers to remotely, and instantaneously, see the trainee’s reaction to a given situation. Desktop views are easily switched between trainees. Additionally, Maevex 6100 allows training sessions to be simultaneously recorded to network storage from where the simulations are played back on demand to the individual trainee, or to other interested parties.

To complete the offering, Matrox provided product and configuration training for Siemens personnel, onsite at Siemens Rail Automation’s headquarters.

The Impact

Siemens Rail Automation has deployed the IP-based signaling simulator as part of a major project in a leading European-rail-network organization where it is performing in line with the rail industry’s stringent standards. Similar deployments for other clients are being planned.

Using the standard network to stream the various elements of the simulator in real time has offered many benefits to the client. The video wall displays copies of the trainer’s own screens, as well as a selected trainee’s screens. This IP-based implementation is easily scalable and allows multiple trainees to be participating in the same training session—with the trainer able to select which trainee to be overseeing at a given time.

Andy Powell of Siemens Rail Automation says, “Using Matrox’s video wall and streaming and recording technologies has been instrumental to the successful implementation of this pioneering IP-based signaling simulator in our client’s organization. Without Matrox, this clearly wouldn’t have been achievable.”

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According to an Oblong Industries press release, the ScanSource bundle  leverages commercial displays from LG Electronics and Webex Room Kit Series from Cisco.

The company says the integrated solutions offers includes Cisco Webex for virtual meeting s, LG for visual displays and Oblong Mezzanine for a content-rich and immersive collaboration experience .

Mezzanine Available via ScanSource

The  entire Mezzanine product family — including the Mezzanine 600 Series for larger conference rooms and briefing centers, and the Mezzanine 200 Series solution for smaller teams and spaces – is joining the ScanSource line card, according to Oblong.

In its press release it adds that  Mezzanine is defined by its unique user interface that makes it easy for collaborators to share and control multiple content streams simultaneously.

Mezzanine enables users to do this easily across Cisco’s Webex virtual meeting platform.

“End users are continuing to look for innovative UC solutions, and Mezzanine delivers a content-rich workplace collaboration experience that enables resellers to meet this growing demand,” says Brian Cuppett, senior vice president, ScanSourceKBZ.

“We look forward to providing this content-centric conferencing solution, in addition to support, training and services for our reseller partners’ continued success.”

The Cisco Mezzanine LG Bundle

With this integrated offering from Cisco, Oblong, and LG, a new product bundle was developed by ScanSource.

The new product bundle brings the Cisco Webex Room Kit and Cisco Webex Room Kit Plus Collaboration Endpoints into the Oblong Mezzanine content collaboration platform and utilizes LG UH5C series commercial UHD displays to share information, video, graphics, and data from multiple sources simultaneously, according to the press release.

Initially, this product bundle will be offered in two sizes mapped to Oblong’s popular Mezzanine 200 Series with dual LG displays for smaller team collaboration, and the Mezzanine 600 series for more immersive environments wrapping a room in an LG pixel-rich canvas for high-value work.

The press release adds that special incentives built within this bundle are set to enhance Mezzanine’s proven ROI.

More from Oblong Industry’s Mezzanine-ScanSource press release:

By collaborating on this specific product bundle at ScanSource, market leaders Cisco Mezzanine LG signal their intent to work together on streamlining the technical details of the installation process with components optimized prior to arrival on the job site for a conference room build or refresh.

Installation wizards will facilitate the process for AV integration specialists and will reduce the time it takes to get systems up and running.

“The introduction of this new product bundle means that it is now easier to specify and install a state-of-the-art system for immersive visual collaboration utilizing our popular Webex Meetings and Teams platforms with Webex Room Kits to bring people together,” said Finn Helge Lunde, Director of Product Management, Cisco.

Clark Brown, vice president, digital signage, LG Business Solutions, concurs.

“Driven by advances in display technologies, more visual and collaborative experiences are redefining today’s workplace. LG commercial displays, bundled by ScanSource with Oblong and Cisco technologies, exploit the rapid expansion of information, graphic and data, creating new ways for people to meet and collaborate,” he said.

Stephen Vobbe, VP of Business Development at Oblong Industries, concludes, “With the finest collaboration endpoints and displays combined with Mezzanine, which sets the bar for multi-screen collaboration as noted by Gartner analysts, organizations have a new and extremely engaging standard of excellence for their meeting spaces.”

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The Tech Decision

Audio Video Intelligence is familiar with designing and building systems within the fitness space as this was not the first project we worked together on with this team. Our client owns a chain of luxury gym and health clubs with multiple locations across Massachusetts and is continuing to expand. Our relationship with the client started when they had taken over a space that we had already done prior work on. The client accessed our information from the landlord and this began the first project we worked together in which we designed and installed the entire audio/video system within an existing space.

A satisfied customer is a loyal customer. When our client was opening another facility, and this time building from the ground up, they reached out to Audio Video Intelligence again. Now familiar with their vision and being part of the project from the inception, we could design and customize a complete control system including audio/video, climate control, lighting, digital signage and security system. With our cutting edge solutions, we directly contributed to helping our client reach their goal of enhancing their member’s experience and maintaining their satisfaction. Throughout this process, Audio Video Intelligence has built a great relationship with our client and we look forward to working with them as they expand their company and open more fitness facilities.

The Solution

The goal was to create an exciting and interactive controlled audio video system that was inviting for members. The mission was to be able to entertain and entice, while also providing a healthy work-out environment. An essential element to the space was a 200-inch interactive display that connects to a multi-view application that combines digital signage, live feed, and web browsing. Throughout the facility, we brought technology together with a healthy life style and used technology to aid in fitness goals. This includes a CrossFit application that allows members to compete with members at other gyms, a touch screen display for member services, and digital signage throughout the facility to display class schedules. The team asked Audio Video Intelligence to make the environment welcoming to guests as well as easy for employees to be able to use. Control4 was used to connect every device including audio, video, lighting, temperature, fan control and security.

The Impact

Audio Video Intelligence installed a completely automated solution with Control4 as the platform. Control4 automates multiple music streams, video feeds, lighting, temperature, fan control and security within the facility. The music streams can be chosen across 8 audio zones. Each television in the facility has an independent video feed. In the main lobby, there is an ELO touch screen display for member services. A 200-inch screen with a 4K projector is a centerpiece that allows the facility company branding, live broadcasts and class schedules.

Throughout the facility, there are 24 TV’s, 25 speakers that are in-wall and mounted and 4 digital signage players. An Epson 4k Laser projects onto a 200” screen connected to a Skreens solution that allows for company branding, four video inputs and a web browser.

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TD: What can attendees at InfoComm expect to see at Nureva’s booth this year?

Nancy Knowlton: We will be focused on several new product announcements:

• The Nureva Wall WM408i. This fully integrated wall system is the latest HD-resolution system that Nureva offers.
• The Dual HDL300 system. This system extends Nureva’s Microphone Mist technology to larger spaces up to 30’ by 50’.
• We’ll also showcase the latest functionality within the Span Workspace. The follow me function is a new feature that our customers have been requesting.

TD: Tell us how the Nureva Wall differs from the Span system customers are familiar with?

Nancy Knowlton: The Nureva Wall system is a tightly integrated system that offers multiple advantages over prior systems:

• We have taken control of the projection surface through the integration of a 7’6” wide Projected Capacitive Touch (PCT) wall component.
• The touch experience on the wall is just like that on a smartphone.
• The image is brighter and more uniform, with the same 25,000 hours of carefree operation as earlier systems
• The modular design makes it easy for multiple systems to be installed together, meaning that wall systems up to 60 linear feet can be set up for the ultimate in collaborative environments. The image alignment functionality for the system is built in, so there is no user intervention needed at set up or thereafter.
• Careful attention has been paid to the installation experience, making it easy for a two-man crew to install a single system in under two hours.

TD: Can we expect new functionality to the Span system?

Nancy Knowlton: Yes, we will be showcasing the latest functionality and previewing some new functionality available in a July release.

TD: How do Nureva’s products work together to create a collaborative environment?

Nancy Knowlton: Our products are built for people who want to actively collaborate in a space. They want the freedom to move around the space at our large wall systems or any displays. While our Nureva Wall with Span Workspace and the HDL300 system can work alone, they combine to create that active collaboration environment where creation and collaboration are king.

TD: What does the future look like for Nureva, from this year’s InfoComm to next?

Nancy Knowlton: With a robust product offering, validated through the last two years in the market, we are ready to dramatically expand our channel, particularly in North America. That is a key focus for us at InfoComm and beyond. We’ll continue to deliver enhancements to our offering over the coming twelve months and deepen our understanding of customer needs.

Visit Nureva’s booth N1276 at InfoComm 2018.

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