Volume 20, Issue 4 — February 26, 2024

rAVe EMEA — Volume 20, Issue 4

26 February 2024 | Volume: 20 | Issue: 4

Did you miss it? “Dark Matter Wins German Systems Integration Award”

I present you with the 2024 “Kayye’s Krystal Ball” in this latest newsletter. This is a piece Gary writes every year in which he makes a prediction about what might happen in the next year in the AV industry. I think his predictions for this year are interesting — I particularly like the companies he says we should pay attention to!

Also, Bob Snyder’s latest column is about how Sora, a new offering from OpenAI, has potential to change the world. Sora turns text into video. What does this mean for the future of content creation? Read more here.

— Steph Beckett

COLUMNS

+ Kayye’s Krystal Ball: 2024 Edition [Gary Kayye]

My Kayye’s Krystal Ball is an annual article in which I not only tell you what I think is going to happen in the AV, UCC and Digital Signage markets for the upcoming year, but I also look back and review the previous year’s predictions — sort of a scorecard of accuracy, if you will.

+ Sora Text-to-Video AI Changes the World: Artists Dread It, Producers Love It, Governments Both Fear and Embrace It [Bob Snyder]

OpenAI, famous for its ChatGPT and Dall-E free-to-use AI system, unveiled a new text-to-video service to select researchers, beta testers, developers and policymakers. “Sora” generates up to one-minute videos from text prompts. You type in a sentence or two as a prompt and it creates your video.