Announcing the 2023 Winners of rAVe’s Best of InfoComm Awards
As we have for the past 13 years, I am proud to say we sent reporters from rAVe [PUBS] to EVERY SINGLE BOOTH at InfoComm 2023 earlier this month to shoot videos of new (and returning!) products. No other company went to every single booth. We amassed a cache of more than 1,560 videos, and we posted them all on our InfoComm 2023 Microsite, which includes over 2,000 photos from the show floor and 300+ new product news stories and podcasts.
And, every year since we’ve been doing this, we’ve given out awards for the best-of-the-best. The best of everything we saw — and here they are. To help you know why each product won, we’ve embedded the product video we shot on the show floor!
So, if you’re an integrator and see something here that you aren’t selling yet, consider contacting them! Likewise, if you’re an end user reading this, consider adding these to your future rooms — they won for a reason …
Best of Show
Best New Tech Demo: 7thSense — Reactive Projection Mapping Demo
Best New Product of InfoComm 2023: Logitech — Project Ghost
Best LED Demo: Samsung — The Wall 130-inch All-in-One dvLED Display
Best New Technology of InfoComm 2023: Huddly — Huddly Crew
TIE Game-Changing Tech Award: Philips — Tableaux / Sharp NEC Display Solutions — Color Paper
The Future of AV Award: Userful — Infinity
Displays
Most Creative New LED: ViewSonic — LDS135-151
Most Creative New LCD: DTEN — D7X
Most Creative New OLED: LG — 30-inch Touch Transparent OLED
Mind-Blowing LED: LG — MAGNIT
Most Creative Use of LED: HOLOSCAPE — Muxwave
Best New dvLED: Nanolumens — Nixel Flex
Best New Video Wall Product: Matrox Video — LUMA Series
Best New LCD Monitor: Sony — BRAVIA BZ40L Series
Projection
Most Creative New Projector: Barco — G50
Most Creative Portable Projector: ViewSonic — X2-4K
Best New Short-Throw Projector: Epson — PowerLite 810E
Most Creative Projection Screen: AV Stumpfl — Flex Black PRO
Best New Large Venue Projector: Christie — 4K22-HS
Digital Signage
The Future of Digital Signage Award: Philips — Tableaux
Most Creative New Digital Signage Product: BrightSign — XT5
Best New Digital Signage Display: Christie — MicroTiles LED P3 0.75mm
Best New Digital Signage CMS: SAVI — SAVI Show
Best Cloud-Based Signage: SpinetiX — ARYA
Control
Most Creative Control System Interface: RTI — KX4 Touch Panel
Best New Control Solution: Utelogy — U-Manage / U-Automate
Best New Touch Panels: AMX — Varia
UCC
The Future of UCC Award: Canon — AMLOS
Coolest Collaboration Software: Mago
Best New UCC Camera: Yealink — SmartVision 60
Best Huddle Room Solution: Logitech — Rally Bar Huddle
Best New 21:9 LED: Sharp NEC Display Solutions — LED-FE009i2-104″
TIE Best New 21:9 LCD: Planar — 105″ 5K UltraRes W Series / MAXHUB 21:9 Display
Best Collaboration System for 21:9: T1V — ThinkHub Visual Collaboration Software
Best New Video Bar: Sennheiser — TeamConnect TC Bar
Best Meeting Equity Solution/Demo: DTEN — Vue Pro
Best Audioconferencing Solution: Shure — MXA902
Best New All-in-One Meeting Solution: Aurora Multimedia — RXT-4D
Best New AI-Based PTZ Camera: AVer — PTZ310UNV2
Best New AI-Based ePTZ Camera: FunTech Innovation — innex C590 AI ePTZ
Best New Display Mount: Peerless-AV — DS-LEDUNV Universal Seamless Mounting System
Favorite IFP: ViewSonic — IFP105S 21:9 5K
Education
Best Podium/Lectern: Computer Comforts — Configure IT
Audio
The Future of Audio Award: Shure — IntelliMix Room
Best New Mic System: Audio-Technica — Engineered Sound Mic
Best New ProAV Speakers: AtlasIED — AS Series
Best New Assistive Listening Solution: Listen Technologies — ListenWIFI
Best New In-Room Audio Solution: Crestron — Flex Pods
Video
The Future of Video Award: Lightware — UBEX
Best New AV-over-IP IPMX-Based Product: PlexusAV — IPMX-Based Ecosystem
Best New HDBaseT-Based Product: C2G — C2G31011 Wall Plate-Based Extension
Best New AV-over-IP SDVoE-Based Product: Aurora Multimedia — TPG-8K
Best New Video Switcher: INOGENI — CAM230
Best New Wireless Sharing Product: Crestron — AirMedia Connect
Best New AV-over-IP Networking Switch: NETGEAR — M4350 Series
Best Room Control Switcher: Datavideo — iCAST Mini
Emerging Tech
Best XR in ProAV Demo: Planar — Planar Studios
Best Virtual Production Demo: Absen
Best Use of NDI in ProAV: Apantac — MI 16-NDI
Software
Best AVaaS Ecosystem: XYTE
Best System Design Package: Jetbuilt
TIE Best Use of AI in ProAV: Sharp NEC Display Solutions — NaViSense / Biamp — AI Noise Reduction in TesiraFORTÉ X 400
Best Use of VR in ProAV: XTEN-AV — X-VRSE