Latest headlines: Dr. Fred Ampel on the odd seating arrangements of parishioners, Christopher Jaynes on hardware as a service, plus news from PreSonus, Draper, Optoma and more
October 11, 2018 | Volume: 7 | Issue: 10.1
As someone who grew up in the protestant church, the culture of “this is my pew, I sit here all the time” is one I’m very familiar with. Today Dr. Frederick Ampel shares how the methodical action of where people sit in a house of worship requires a scientific approach to the integration of a system.
Further, Christopher Jaynes joins the conversation of AVaaS by outlining the basis of AV: bridging the gap between physical and digital worlds through sight and sound. In that lens, he then discusses the success of making AV a service.
Also see product and industry news from Professional Wireless, PreSonus, Draper, Optoma, Green Hippo, Egan and Working Walls below!
If you randomly walked into 10 houses of worship on any given Sunday, you would more than likely find that people position themselves in one of three locations: the front, the back and also scattered randomly elsewhere. This pattern seems to be ubiquitous, not affected by denomination, worship style or even sanctuary size and seating plan. But why?
Fundamentally, what AV does is bridge the physical and digital worlds through sight and sound, and that’s partly what makes it interesting. But we should really think about the hardware as a socket that allows us to deliver services to the user. Think of an electrical plug deployed in your house that allows the electric company to provide you with a monthly service of power. You really don’t place much value in the socket — but you’re willing to pay the electric company a monthly fee for the service of electrical power.
