Volume 6, Issue 2 — February 28, 2017

• AV Insider Recap

• The Trade Show Recap

• Rants and rAVes Recap

• Selling AV Recap

I caught up with InFocus CMO, Brady Bruce, and, in addition to talking about his ISE impressions, I asked him when he thought Collaboration Boards, like his Mondopad, will become the norm – rather than the upgrade – to a meeting room. I asked him when he thought we’d hit the tipping-point – his response was candid.

If you want to see all the news we wrote and all the videos we shot at ISE, click here.

February 27, 2017
Episode 573: A Conversation with Nureva’s Nancy Knowlton

I had a chance to followup, post ISE, with one of my favorite industry thought leaders, Nureva CEO, Nancy Knowlton, today and we not only talked about their ISE 2017 experience – and what she thought was the most important benefit of the show for her – but, I also posed the question: “How can we accelerate the implementation and adoption of collaboration spaces?” Her answer might surprise you as it really has nothing to do with products or technologies.

And, of course, if you want to see (or read) all the Nureva coverage from ISE, just head on over to the ISE microsite.

Gary is joined by rAVe BlogSquad’er Joel Rollins and they talk about some of the things they saw at ISE 2017 on Day 2. This is a special video-version of Gary’s Rants and rAVe’s podcast recorded LIVE in Amsterdam.

To see all the rAVe coverage of ISE 2017, go to https://www.ravepubs.com/ise2017

February 8, 2017
Episode 571: ISE Special Videocast: ISE 2017 Day-1 Wrap-Up

Gary is joined by rAVe BlogSquad’er Joel Rollins and they talk about some of the things they saw at ISE 2017 on Day 1. This is a special video-version of Gary’s Rants and rAVe’s podcast recorded LIVE in Amsterdam.

To see all the rAVe coverage of ISE 2017, go to https://www.ravepubs.com/ise2017

February 7, 2017
Episode 570: ISE Special Videocast: Prysm Is Making Their Software Availabile on Third-Party Hardware

Prysm’s Visual Workplace is about to be available to non-Prysm hardware. And, in their booth at ISE, they’ll even be demoing it on third-party display products. This continues Prysm’s efforts to move away from being just a hardware provider and more into the services arena of providing business solutions. The software will be SaaS with seat licenses. But, ISE will include a totally new user-interface launch and wireless video sharing for remote users – and it will all be demo’d in their ISE stand in Hall 11 stand B130.

Prysm’s CMO, Paige O’Neill joined Gary on this special ISE edition videocast where she talked about all their ISE launches and gave us a glimpse of their new interface.

How do you make the InFocus Mondopad better? Up it to 4K resolution, of course. The new Mondopad Ultra is a 4K resolution version of their Mondopad collaboration system that ups the videoconferencing quality as well as adds native resolution content display capabilities. InFocus’ CMO, Brady Bruce, joined Gary on today’s podcast to talk about the new 70” and 85” 3840 x 2160 resolution Mondopad Ultras as well as talk about the ConX Wall and ConX Exec Videoconferencing and visualization systems and what differentiates them. InFocus will be in Hall 2 stand A52 at ISE next week.

February 2, 2017
Episode 568: ISE Special Videocast: Vivitek Has Become the One-for-All Display Company Since Last Year’s ISE

Prysm’s Visual Workplace is about to be available to non-Prysm hardware. And, in their booth at ISE, they’ll even be demoing it on third-party display products. This continues Prysm’s efforts to move away from being just a hardware provider and more into the services arena of providing business solutions. The software will be SaaS with seat licenses. But, ISE will include a totally new user-interface launch and wireless video sharing for remote users – and it will all be demo’d in their ISE stand in Hall 11 stand B130.

February 2, 2017
Episode 567: ISE Special Videocast: The Panacast 2 Demo — This Could convince You Not to Use a PTZ Camera Again

I did a live, real-time demo of the new Altia Systems Panacast 2 camera today. It was amazing – and, the best part about this is that this is a new product. The Panacast 2 is designed to be a one, automatic replacement of a PTZ camera in VTC and UCC installs. Integrated with over 30 patents and an amazing algorithm that is automatically processing what the room looks like, who’s in the room and who is talking, the patented Panacast 2 totally replaces the need for a PTZ camera in ANY Huddle space and, dare I say, in nearly any meeting room. I promise you that this is worth watching!

The Altia Systems Panacast 2 is the ultimate UCC conference camera – what to know why? Listen to this podcast that Gary had today with Aurangzeb Khan President and CEO of Altia Systems, so that you understand the basics and then come back to rAVe Pubs tomorrow and check out the real-time demo that Gary did using the Panacast 2 camera!

Visit them at Booth 13-E72 at ISE!

February 1, 2017
Episode 565: ISE Special Videocast: InFocus Demos Mondopad in Real Time on rAve RADIO

There are a plethora of all-in-one interactive, flat-panel conferencing solutions out there — InFocus’ Mondopad was the first. And, they’re up against heavyweights like Google, Cisco, Microsoft and Sharp, now. Big brands.

Yet, InFocus says the Mondopad is still the most universal and easiest to use. So, here’s a real-time demo that includes on-the-fly, far-site connectivity, an explanation (and use) of every feature on the Mondopad and a demo of their whiteboarding, their annotation functionality, their touch-sensititvy and how quick it is to move from app to app. All, in real time and on Skype!

InFocus’ Abigail Rath handles this demo perfectly.

InFocus will be at ISE doing live demos in Hall 2 stand A52.

Watch Gary’s ISE Videocast with Abigail below!

Bose Professional has been in audio for 50+ years. But, they’ll use ISE next week in Amsterdam to launch themselves into a totally new market – audio conferencing. ISE will see the debut of their ControlSpace EX Conferencing Solution – a legacy and Dante-enabled audio conferencing processor for meeting rooms. Gary was joined on his podcast today, on a special videocast, by Bose’s Rob Kosman Manager of Global Events and Applications, and he took the time to explain the philosophy behind the new ControlSpace audio conferencing line as well as what differentiates it from the plethora of audio conferencing processors in the commercial AV space today.

Also, ISE will see the EMEA debut of the DeltaQ Array of loudspeakers, originally shown at InfoComm 2016 in Las Vegas – you can see a video we shot of that product line at (InfoComm video here) or you can watch Gary’s InfoComm 2016 (booth tour video here).

Watch Gary’s ISE videocast with Rob below!