THIS IS A PROMOTED POST By Brian Phillips, Director of Product Marketing for HP Poly Meeting room collaboration technology has been constantly evolving for decades, with new waves of innovation emerging just as we get used to the previous ones. Artificial intelligence, advanced camera experiences, intelligent audio processing and new software capabilities continue to reshape […]

InfoComm 2026 has officially wrapped, and as usual the rAVe team did an outstanding job covering the products, booths, announcements and personalities that make the show one of the most important events in professional AV. Between videos, interviews and on-site reporting, virtually every significant product announcement found its way into the rAVe coverage pipeline. One […]

Workplace technology is no longer limited to meeting rooms, voice services or collaboration platforms operating independently. Organizations are increasingly looking for ways to bring these experiences together to improve productivity, simplify management and support evolving business goals. In this episode of The Collaboration Space, Nancy Lussier is joined by AVI-SPL’s John Bailey, SVP of Technology […]

Future-Proofing Meeting Rooms for AI and Hybrid Work As organizations invest in AI-powered meeting experiences, the quality of the underlying audio has never been more important. In this episode of The Collaboration Space, Nancy Lussier speaks with Chris Merrick, Global Vice President of Marketing for Collaboration at Shure, from the show floor at InfoComm 2026. […]

As organizations invest in AI-powered meeting experiences, the quality of the underlying audio has never been more important. In this episode of The Collaboration Space, Nancy Lussier speaks with Chris Merrick, Global Vice President of Marketing for Collaboration at Shure, from the show floor at InfoComm 2026. They discuss how organizations can create consistent collaboration […]

As AI becomes a standard part of workplace productivity, organizations are rethinking how they design, deploy and manage collaboration spaces. In this episode of The Collaboration Space, Nancy Lussier sits down with Joel Mulpeter from Crestron at InfoComm 2026 to discuss what it takes to build AI-ready meeting environments that scale across rooms, campuses and […]

THIS IS A PROMOTED POST During UCC Day of LAVNCH WEEK 13, rAVe held a panel titled “Designing for the Hybrid Majority: What Actually Works in 2026.” The panel discussed how today’s collaboration spaces must support hybrid meetings and how this requirement is becoming the norm. Featured on the panel were our very own Steph […]

As organizations race to adopt AI-enabled collaboration technology, FORTÉ has released a new report titled “The State of Modern Collaboration Spaces” detailing some of the pain points businesses are facing in implementing this technology. FORTÉ based its report on a digital survey with feedback from more than 500 IT leaders in the United States who […]

Another LAVNCH WEEK, another recap by yours truly. Today we kicked off LAVNCH WEEK 7 with UCC Day, and I may be biased, but it was fantastic. Our speakers gave incredible insights, the attendees asked thought-provoking questions and the content was informative and relevant. Now, I’m going to give you a recap of the day […]

How Can We Do Better? In this new world of “Return to Office,” we are faced with an interesting question… what exactly is RTO/what is the “New Normal” and how do we plan for the future of work in that new paradigm. In looking at the landscape, we seem to have companies firmly planting flags […]

No matter where you live within the AV ecosystem, chances are a big part of your job is studying up on the latest technology. After all, if you’re going to offer your customers a compelling solution, you need to keep your finger on the pulse of technical innovation that’s continuously happening throughout our industry. Traditionally, this […]

One of the most eye-opening statistics of the last couple of years is that even though our time in meetings has increased (in some places literally doubled) and worker productivity is slightly up, collaboration time is actually down. As technology people, this may seem counterintuitive. If people are in more meetings and using platforms like […]

In 2012 I did a job for the U.S. Navy. I was invited to a site walk to upgrade what they called their “Adaptive Planning rooms.” These were the rooms the Navy would use to model potential operations. One team would use the first room and assume the role of the protagonists (us) and the […]

As we navigate the reasons to get together in person, collaboration seems to be one of the main terms used as to why we still need physical spaces. We’ve seen a multitude of solutions pop up in this arena, typically consisting of a screen, cameras, microphone, speakers and screen sharing software. Some systems take this […]

Today, a friend of mine named Kyle Davis @ mentioned me on Twitter to get my thoughts on the future of the huddle space. I responded with this tweet: https://twitter.com/AVPhenom/status/1391832615573807105?s=20 This IS that blog. There’s a lot of chatter about the office; if people will go back, and when they do, What will the new […]

Barco just launched NexxisLive, a collaboration solution for surgery. NexxisLive is a secure cloud-based software platform that makes it possible to involve the right people for any type of surgical intervention, wherever they are. As in many other professions, remote collaboration provides surgeons with a quick and flexible solution to offer or consult medical and technical knowledge, without losing time […]

Spin the stats however you want, the short answer to “what does the return to work look like” is that most people want access to an office at least part of the time. We’ve seen a lot of articles written about technology as it pertains to the return to the office. Many talk about touchless […]

Collaboration. It’s not what you think it is … Whenever I hear someone in the AV industry mention collaboration, I am reminded of the words of the legendary Inigo Montoya in my favorite movie. “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” I was looking at job […]

Skype, FaceTime and now Zoom. Each of the past several iterations of videoconferencing have a few things in common. First, they became part of the consumer lexicon, becoming verbs, in fact. Second, they became popular because of their use by, and availability to the general consumer. Only Zoom, however, grew at what can be described […]

We’ve all heard the phrase “a meeting that could have been an email.” Add in today’s additional methods of communication and you’ll get “a meeting that could have been a Zoom call, that could have been an email, that could have been a phone call, that could have been a text.” I put this idea […]

Given today’s environment and my role with a workplace technology company, I have been exploring a LOT of different collaboration tools as of late. Collaboration devices have officially gone well beyond wireless screen-sharing at this point. In fact, with Zoom, Teams, etc. offering screen-share as part of their software platforms over the Wi-Fi connection, I’d […]

I’d never heard the term “double join” until a few months ago on a call with one of our board members, John Case, who is a great resource to talk with if you’re researching the world of video conferencing. John spent a long time at Microsoft building the Office 365 product family and now puts […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Phenomenal Industries has released the new TalkBox VTC UCC collaboration device for Teams and Zoom Meetings. We are living in a new normal where virtual meetings have exploded due to the inability of people to gather safely in a single, physical space. The prevalence of these virtual meetings has created a plethora […]

A lot has changed over the past three to four months. Most of the world’s professionals are working from home (or working from anywhere) using different video conferencing platforms and a myriad of collaboration tools to continue working. We want to get a sense of how COVID-19 and recent work-from-home (or work from anywhere other […]

As AV device adoption in United States K-12 schools reaches the saturation point, uptake of interactive devices is primed to accelerate over the next two years, displacing projectors and front-of-room displays. That is according to a new research study from Futuresource Consulting, which polled IT decision-makers across more than 400 U.S. K-12 school districts and […]

Gary was joined on today’s Videocast with WolfVision’s Michael Lisi to talk Cynap, the VCX Conference and the future of UCC via BYOM and full collaboration. Cynap is well-positioned to be the ultimate BYOM (bring your own meeting) UCC product to drive both local and distance-based collaboration in classrooms and meeting rooms. Watch and see why!

Practically no one, and no community, has escaped the impact of COVID-19 on life and work. Underneath it all, we’re all just itching to know how long this will go on. On Thursday, T1V hosted a webinar to dig into these realities and tensions. To help, it enlisted one of the world’s leading physicians to […]

By Julian Philips SVP Global Workplace Solutions at AVI-SPL The seminal but often hastily misunderstood work by Dr. Richard Dawkins, “The Selfish Gene” argues that it is humble genes and not organisms, let alone species that dictate evolutionary progress, and that we as human beings are merely vassals as genes seek their own immortality. Scientists […]

So, unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve seen hundreds of posts about remote work, video conferencing and collaboration in the last few days. The craziness of today’s events has forced companies to adopt video conferencing and remote collaboration solutions on a scale that we haven’t seen. Some think that this bodes well for the […]

DTEN introduced two new Zoom Room-based collaboration products at ISE 2020 Tuesday. The DTEN GO with DTEN Mate turns any existing display panel (even a consumer TV) into a Zoom Rooms for Touch. The video bar with an accompanying wireless controller that enables content annotation and interactive whiteboarding on a monitor that’s not touch-enabled. DTEN […]

Barco today announced its partnership with Logitech to combine ClickShare Conference with Logitech Video Collaboration products. ClickShare Conference is the latest product range in Barco’s highly appreciated ClickShare family. ClickShare Conference is all about wireless conferencing and BYOM (Bring Your Own Meeting), as it allows you to join any type of video conference from your […]

During ISE 2020, CTOUCH is introducing a plethora of new collaboration solutions for the IFPD market. Presenting its ‘BRIX’ concept, a family of modular products, CTOUCH provides companies with a future proof collaboration experience. On top of that, CTOUCH reveals two brand new touchscreen platforms, the CTOUCH Riva and CTOUCH Canvas, which seamlessly integrate with […]