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August 4, 2021 | Volume: 19 | Issue: 29
Today on rAVe [TV], Gary and I discussed this column from Mark Coxon. He’s currently watching Loki on Disney+. The show talks about a premise called “the sacred timeline.” Even though I’m not a Marvel guy, I like to think about timelines. What if I had made this decision instead of that one? Where would I be? What would I be doing? Mark provides some thoughts about where different AV manufacturers could be if things were different. What do you think? Are we on the right timeline?
Speaking of right and wrong timeline, our next column from Michael Katz discusses the pandemic in the context of how interactions might change with permanent installs moving forward. Aside from a few obvious things (people might not be so hot on touch screens moving forward), he discusses some other post-pandemic ideas.
If you’re looking for a booth tour to get you back in the trade show spirit, look no further than Gary’s column on Sony’s AV Tech Expo. He traveled to NYC to check this out and includes the tour on a video from last week’s rAVe [TV]. It was so fun! Check it out.
I just finished watching Loki, a Marvel-inspired series on Disney +. For those that haven’t seen it, I won’t include any spoilers here, just that the show revolves around a concept called “the sacred timeline.” This refers to the way we see the world and all of the potential opportunities the timeline had to branch, creating a multiverse of alternate realities. I often feel like we have a “sacred timeline” in AV, and we accept that some companies were predestined to have the roles they do today, but what if …
One of the topics from the sessions I hosted on my Pexip Platform last year between April 2020 to July 2020 included a very interesting presentation and point of view from Josiah Hobson, managing director at Spinifex New York, about how digital experiences changed due to the pandemic. In order to continue ongoing engagements with their customers, many companies (aka brands) had to utilize various technologies in creative ways contrary to pre-pandemic methodologies. Since I did not record any of my sessions, I thought sharing his information would appeal to many people (consultants, end users, manufacturers, system integrators, etc.).
I took my third business trip post-vaccination today and headed up to New York City for Sony’s first-ever AV Tech Expo at its 25 Madison Ave. location. I’d say it was worth the masking, walking and mouth-sweating (inside the mask).