The 12th Projection Summit will feature presentations on the latest trends, technologies and market updates for the professional projection industry. This year, attendees will be able to see several demonstrations that have never been shown before. This includes a side-by-side demonstration of five hybrid projectors, multiple projection-based in-room collaboration demos, a six-color 3D laser projector demonstration and a live demonstration of the InfoComm "Projected Image System Contrast Ratio” standard. Projection Summit be held on the two days prior to InfoComm on Monday/Tuesday, June 10-11.
Hybrid Side-by-Side Demonstration - Shoot-Out Like!
The Hybrid session, to be held on the morning of June 11 at Projection Summit, will break new ground. For the first time ever, attendees will be able see five hybrid projectors in a side-by-side demonstration showing the same content. This will allow users to judge the image quality of the projectors for themselves.
Representatives from Casio, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Optoma and Sony will be on hand to talk about their projector technology and product/application focus and to support the demonstration. Moderator Alan Brawn will kick off the session providing some basic information on hybrid projection technology and markets, setting the stage for the individual company presenters. A panel discussion will help attendees better understand the issues and opportunities for the hybrid projector market.
Content consisting of test images, videos and patterns that are part of the Projection Image System Contrast Ratio standard, will be used in the side-by-side demos of the hybrid projectors. All will have matched screens. Attendees will have the full lunch hour period to view this demonstration and ask questions of the company representatives.
BYOD Collaboration
One of the hottest topics in the ProAV industry is how to manage and integrate personal devices like smartphone, tablets and laptops into the corporate environment, especially for conference room type sharing of information. This Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend will be explored at Projection Summit with live explanations and demonstrations of collaborative solutions using projection displays and personal devices.
For example, Mersive Technologies will showcase its Solstice collaborative solution using a Delta display system consisting of two blended short throw projectors. Barco will showcase its ClickShare solution using the 21:9 aspect ratio F35 projector from projectiondesign, which it recently acquired. Tidebreak will offer a solution called TideSpot for BYOD using the main projection screen for the event. rAVe's own Gary Kayye will also be on hand to talk about what these solutions will mean for the ProAV community. This is a not-to-be-missed session on Monday morning.
6P 3D Laser Projector
A 6P 3D laser projector means there are six laser primary wavelengths used to create the 3D image. Three RGB wavelenths are used to create the left eye image while three slightly different RGB wavelengths are used to create the right eye image. Such a solution will allow brighter, more efficient and higher contrast 3D images for cinemas, visualization, entertainment, medical, and many other specialized markets. For the first time, Necsel and Infitec will team up to demonstrate their 6P solution at Projection Summit.
Projection Image System Contrast Ratio Demonstration
InfoComm and industry participants worked hard recently to forge this new standard to help ensure that integrators can design and install projection solutions that offer the highest contrast in their application environments. To show how easy it is to do the measurement in the application, DNP will perform the measurement live in front of attendees during their talk.
Other killer sessions at Projection Summit include:
The 4K projector opportunity with presentations by Sony, Barco and Lang
Laser Device update with presentations from Laser Light Engines, NECSEL, C2C Link and Modulight
Projection Market Opportunities described by Furturesource Consulting, Innovation Bureau and Screen Goo
Laser Projection Regulatory issues discussed by JBMIA and LIPA
Advanced Projection Components and Engines with presentations by Greenlight Optics, Wavien, Appotronics and Osram
3D Projection update from Infitec and, Real D
Projection Summit is THE place to discuss the trends, technology, markets and business aspects of the projection industry. This is what Projection Summit is all about – understanding how these technologies will reshape the products, markets, applications and competitiveness of projection. See full Agenda here.
If projection is part of your business, this is the best single conference to attend to get the answers you need. The executive-level conference allows attendees to hear from and engage with the industry’s business, marketing, and technology leaders from all levels of the big screen display value chain. The stimulating Monday/Tuesday sessions and discussion will focus on key industry trends and issues – matters that will affect business decisions at all levels of the industry.
"I always hear how attendees learned new things, made new connections and ultimately did some business as a result of attending the Projection Summit," noted event organizer and Insight Media president Chris Chinnock. "That's exactly the kind of outcome we strive for."
We will be there all day covering it - will you? You'd better be! Sign up here:
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NPD DisplaySearch today announced that Brandon McNulty, managing director and CTO for the International Speedway Corporation, which owns and operates 13 of the nation’s premier motorsports entertainment facilities, will provide the keynote address at the FPD Conference at InfoComm on June 11 in Orlando, Florida.
PESA's new Cheetah 4K, a fiber optic routing switcher, will debut at InfoComm. PESA says it will route 4K up to 600 meters over multi-mode cable. Each 4K source is connected to an outboard (PESA branded) easyPORT-4KX1F coax to fiber media converter that PESA tells rAVe supports up to 12 Gbps per port over a single fiber to the router. They also told us that the easyPORT-4KX1F has the ability to accept ultra-high resolution 4K video at 3840x2160 and 4096x2160 and each input port can also be configured individually to accept up to four independent 3G-SDI signals to be transported over a signal fiber cable.
Salamander Designs, a manufacturer of HomeAV furniture for over 20 years, will be exhibiting at InfoComm and will launch a line of "design-your-own" concept furniture aimed at the video conferencing, hospitality and corporate AV market. Salamander says it's doing this to give commercial integrators the flexibility to choose from a vast array of sizes, styles, cabinet configurations and outfit them specifically for its customers. It will offer products such as rack rails, integrated monitors, camera and speaker mounts, cooling fans and charging trays for portable devices.
FSR is going to use InfoComm next month to launch new compact table boxes for conference and classrooms, an iPad table mount aimed at digital signage applications and very cool and very thin HDMI cables. 
RGB Spectrum's new OmniWall display processor is a video wall processor that's designed to accommodate wall arrays of virtually any configuration (and it's spec'd to handle video sources up to 4K (UltraHD) resolution). In addition, multiple walls can be managed from the same processor and an image can be scaled across any number of displays - the user simply defines the wall configuration, window layouts and source routing. The OmniWall processor automatically sends the proper scaling information to each output - including bezel compensation. Multiple layouts and routings can be saved and recalled using presets.
Mitsubishi and Shuttle Computer have created a new turn-key hardware, software and content system bundle that features everything you need to create digital signage. The bundles feature one or two 42-inch or 46-inch commercial-grade Mitsubishi Electric LCD flat panel display(s), a Shuttle digital media player(s) and all necessary cables. It also includes 90 days of free content management software and service, which gives users access to templates for creating and displaying content.
Tecom is introducing at InfoComm the TecPodium AV Lectern, which will integrate multi-touch screen capabilities supporting Microsoft Windows 8 and HD resolution. The TecPodium TPI-12W is an all-in-one lectern with a single control panel controlling all AV gear. It has a built-in optical, multi-user touch screen system. The new touch screen also offers extended educational tools for the modern classroom and training environments where the presenter can use all common touch gestures such as swipe, tap, slide, scroll, zoom and more directly on the podium screen. TecPodium multi-touch screen fully supports Microsoft Windows 8 and Microsoft Office 2013 inking features, allowing direct, on the fly annotation capabilities.
In today's InfoComm Spotlight Podcast Series, rAVe RADIO's Joel Rollins sits down and talks to PLANAR's Senior Director, Global Product Marketing, Steve Seminario. Planar's latest includes an 84" 4K display and their Mosaic series of variable-sized flat-panel displays. The Mosaic is billed as a set of Architectural Video Walls and are available in various sizes from 22" square as well as 46" and 55" 16:9 displays that give a museum-like feeling to an installation. Their 84" 4K display is the largest 4K flat-screen on the market and they've got more to come. Listen to this interview for clues to their InfoComm offerings.
AV Networking World 2013, which will be held in Orlando on June 11th, announced its panel speakers for the informative networking conference. This free all-day event at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando is sponsored by Allen & Heath USA, Attero Tech, Audinate, Bosch Communication Systems, Focusrite, Innovative Electronic Devices, Peavey Commercial Audio, Stewart Audio, Symetrix and Yamaha Commercial Audio. Panel discussions from 16 industry design consultants, installation contractors, networking experts, plus major professional audio equipment manufacturers will cover various case studies covering deployment of small and large-scale networked AV systems. In addition to the broad spectrum of informative panel discussions and presentations, a major interoperability networking demonstration will be conducted.
