Offices and meeting spaces are often chaotic, especially in booming businesses. Trying to keep track of which conference rooms are in use can be very difficult – more complicated than it needs to be. New tech like room scheduling platforms can help.

In truth, collaboration (from an AV perspective) is many different things to many different people. Video conferencing is collaboration, as is, in essence, a basic group email. I guess even work conversations in corridors tick the collaboration box.

Huddle rooms have become the gathering place for spontaneously exchanging ideas in the workplace and bringing together remote participants—just because the rooms are small doesn’t mean their AV technology is less sophisticated.

The promise of IoT is that machine-to-machine communication can be programmed and streamlined, and connected devices can be automated.

What if the industry standard when designing the classroom environment and its related technology was to enhance the user experience, to be more intuitive and easier to adapt to changes in pedagogy or space, and more manageable, with less hardware and computer code writing for integrated control systems?

Epson discusses its latest innovations that will be showcased at DSE 2018.

On the eve of the CinemaCon trade show, opening today in Las Vegas, Samsung Electronics America orchestrated the first ever public direct view LED cinema screenings in the U.S., at Pacific Theatres Winnetka in Chatsworth, CA, over the weekend. And Samsung held a private screening for trade press Friday April 29th at the same theater and a tour of a major post house in Santa Monica– Roundabout– that’s using the DCI-compliant LED screen from Samsung to master movie content for theatrical, broadcast, home entertainment and streaming release.

The 2018 InfoComm Rental & Staging New Product Awards are open for online entry. The Awards recognize the best new products introduced from June 2017 to April 2018, for either the Staging market, or the AV rental market. And with the increasing use of digital signage/display for live events, digital signage products are eligible for entry.

When the core of your business is audio and visual, remember an inherent handicap: not everyone can hear or see perfectly. According to the most recent statistics, approximately 15 percent of American adults (37.5 million) aged 18 and over report hearing difficulties. Meanwhile, it’s estimated that 1.3 million people in the U.S. are legally blind.

Crestron Masters 2018, held April 11–12 at the Mohegan Sun Casino and Resort, introduced a new educational tract aimed at helping programmers and systems design engineers develop a common language to drive improved outcomes.

NAB delivers a lot to pro AV– if you know where to look. A this year’s NAB show it’s hard to avoid displays that were once mainly the stuff of DSE (Digital Signage Expo) and InfoComm.

Vanco International’s president Mark Corbin talks about the company’s continuous development of products designed to meet installers’ specific needs.