Oblong Targets Zoom Video with Debut of Rumpus Multi-Stream Collaboration Video System

Oblong Industries just announced something called Rumpus, a new visual collaboration application for purely virtual teams. Oblong is marketing it saying that Rumpus makes web conferencing both content and context rich. It provides simultaneous access to shared screens from meeting participants, and delivers a new layer of communication with shared cursors, annotation and emojis for […]

Oblong Targets Zoom Video with Debut of Rumpus Multi-Stream Collaboration Video System

JOAN Teams Up with Amazon Alexa and Cisco Webex

Joan officially announces its collaboration with Amazon Alexa for Business and Cisco Webex for the kick-off of the Enterprise Connect expo in Orlando, Fla. on Monday March 18, 2019. This collaboration brings together Joan and two of the most used communication smart devices in the world to offer high-end integrated solutions for the workplace. Companies […]

JOAN Teams Up with Amazon Alexa and Cisco Webex

ClearOne Combines New Beamforming Microphone Array Ceiling Tile and DSP Mixer Technology in New Collaboration Solution

ClearOne today announced that the COLLABORATE Live 1000 system now includes the company’s new Beamforming Microphone Array Ceiling Tile (BMA CT). Designed for large conferencing space environments, it includes audio and video connectivity, interactive whiteboarding, presentation, recording, streaming and cloud connectivity — all in one. Designed for large-sized boardrooms, auditoriums, conference rooms, lecture halls, courtrooms, […]

ClearOne Combines New Beamforming Microphone Array Ceiling Tile and DSP Mixer Technology in New Collaboration Solution

TrueConf Intros White Label Video Conferencing Apps

TrueConf announced the introduction of white label video conferencing and collaboration apps. The new approach enables customers to fully customize video conferencing apps according to their needs and corporate identity. iOS users will be the first to tap into the next feature. TrueConf has released fully-customizable video conferencing app for iOS. The new offering allows […]

TrueConf Intros White Label Video Conferencing Apps

Welcome to Gary Kayye’s 2019 Krystal Ball – What Will Happen in AV in 2019

I love writing this annual predictions article. If you’re a regular reader, you already know this but for those that don’t, my Kayye’s Krystal Ball piece is an annual article where I not only tell you what I think is going to happen in the AV market for the upcoming year, but I also go […]

Welcome to Gary Kayye’s 2019 Krystal Ball – What Will Happen in AV in 2019

Sony and UbiCast Join Forces

Sony and lecture capture solution provider UbiCast have announced the launch of Miris Netcapture software and Miris Video Platform. The new network-based lecture capture solution integrates with Vision Exchange, Sony’s active learning and interactive lecture solution. While Sony’s Vision Exchange allows students and teachers to share and annotate content wirelessly from their laptop, smartphone or […]

Sony and UbiCast Join Forces

Extron and Logitech Team to Deliver Conference Room Experiences

Extron announced that they will deliver some collaboration solutions stemming from its joint work with Logitech through the Logitech Collaboration Program. Logitech collaboration products can be equipped with Extron control systems, audio signal processors, and digital video switching and distribution. Meeting attendees will benefit from a significant expansion of meeting collaboration features and the convenience […]

Extron and Logitech Team to Deliver Conference Room Experiences

Logitech Tap Brings One-Touch Video to Collaboration Platforms

Today, Logitech introduced Logitech Tap, a touch control display that makes collaboration rooms easy to deploy and use. Tap is part of pre-configured room solutions for major collaboration platform providers such as Google Hangouts Meet Hardware, Microsoft Teams Rooms (formerly Skype Room Systems) and Zoom Rooms. Like other Logitech conferencing equipment, Tap is built on […]

Logitech Tap Brings One-Touch Video to Collaboration Platforms

CTOUCH Launches a Collaboration System for Microsoft Teams

CTOUCH entered the UCC market with a collaboration system for Microsoft Teams called Leddura 2Meet Teams. Following up on their Leddura 2Meet Skype for Business back in 2017, CTOUCH aims to make the transition to Microsoft Teams collaboration easy. The integrated system allows you to draw, meet, share and book a room directly on a […]

CTOUCH Launches a Collaboration System for Microsoft Teams

Demystifying Huddle Room Solutions with HB Communications

If it seems as though everyone is spending more time in meetings these days, that’s because we are. The time American business people spend in meetings has risen around 10 percent each year since the year 2000. And even though the average meeting length is between 31 to 60 minutes, 40 percent of employees waste […]

Demystifying Huddle Room Solutions with HB Communications

ClearOne Introduces COLLABORATE Space

ClearOne today announced the COLLABORATE Space collaboration solution. With COLLABORATE Space, users can work together one-on-one or in groups of hundreds with integrated file sharing, searchable archives and user presence information. They can connect with colleagues and contacts, via audio and video. Users can meet immediately or schedule a meeting and access a full suite […]

ClearOne Introduces COLLABORATE Space

Futuresource Consulting on What New Tech to Expect at ISE

ISE 2019, the world’s largest exhibition for AV and systems integration professionals, opens its doors in a few days and is expected to draw more than 80,000 visitors. As the industry gears up for the show, Futuresource Consulting has identified the key trends and technologies that you need to look out for, including: Digital Signage, […]

Futuresource Consulting on What New Tech to Expect at ISE

Barco Intros Two New Models of ClickShare

Barco has announced the release of two new enterprise products: a dedicated huddle proposition, the ClickShare CS-100 Huddle, and a 4K collaboration solution, the ClickShare CSE-200+. The ClickShare CS-100 Huddle, designed for huddle and small meeting spaces, brings “spontaneous, ad-hoc and swift content-sharing” to small businesses or teams. With the ClickShare CSE-200+, new ways of […]

Barco Intros Two New Models of ClickShare

Extron Intros Collaboration Systems with One-Gang Wall Plate Transmitters

In its second UCC announcement in less than seven days, Extron has introduced the HC 402 Series of Meeting Space Collaboration Systems. They combine video switching, scaling, signal extension, and system control into a one-gang wallplate transmitter paired with a receiver. Wallplate transmitters are available in U.S. decora style and international EU and MK-style form […]

Extron Intros Collaboration Systems with One-Gang Wall Plate Transmitters

Three Myths About Videoconferencing

I was fortunate enough to cross paths with the senior editor of a well-respected technology magazine while I was over in London last week.  It was a far-ranging discussion, but on the flight back, I continued to think about the question he’d put to me regarding software that enables collaboration when we are together and […]

Three Myths About Videoconferencing

Top AV and Collaboration Predictions for 2019

2018 has been an interesting and eventful year in the AV and collaboration industries.  We’ve seen a number of mergers and acquisitions, rebranding of products, new players big and small entering the market and an avalanche of new products. So what does 2019 have in store for us? I don’t have a crystal ball, but […]

Top AV and Collaboration Predictions for 2019

Security Through Light: The World’s First Quantum Secured Video Conference

My readers will know that I tend to focus on topics related to collaboration, user-interaction, and generally building products that help us work together. You may be surprised to learn that a significant amount of my time is spent thinking about security. As devices become increasingly attached to our enterprise networks – those same devices must be […]

Security Through Light: The World’s First Quantum Secured Video Conference

DVDO TILE Gets Updates — But It’s Still in a Stupid Plastic Enclosure

DVDO has updated the TILE collaboration system. The DVDO TILE even won rAVe’s Best of ISE and Best of InfoComm award winner as it’s a competitively priced ($1,200) way to make a giant digital canvas layering up to four sources on a screen (anywhere you want to place them — not just in a 2×2 […]

DVDO TILE Gets Updates — But It’s Still in a Stupid Plastic Enclosure

NEC Display USA Adds InfinityBoard to Lineup

NEC Display Solutions of America today announced the launch of InfinityBoard — the EMEA office of NEC has been marketing the InfinityBoard collaboration board system for a few years and now it’s available in North American, too. The Windows 10-based InfinityBoard collaboration solution is designed for corporate and higher education customers and includes an NEC […]

NEC Display USA Adds InfinityBoard to Lineup

Barco Announces a SaaS-Based Virtual Classroom Solution with weConnect

Barco has re-launched its Virtual Classroom (with weConnect) system and, at the same time, announced its first install at the IESE Business School in Barcelona. The newest use case of the weConnect, cloud-based SaaS solution makes remote, higher education more interactive and engaging. Barco says the Virtual Classroom allows Business Schools, Universities and Corporate Learning […]

Barco Announces a SaaS-Based Virtual Classroom Solution with weConnect

Barco Offers New Entrant Into Collaboration Market With Its Ideation Wall

Barco just a product competitive to the Nureva Wall called the Ideation Wall, which uses a combination of the ClickShare CSE-800 and their UniSee LCD Wall system. The Ideation Wall consists of several building blocks that Barco says are unique on their own, but when combined, they complement each other. By combining a Barco UniSee […]

Barco Offers New Entrant Into Collaboration Market With Its Ideation Wall

Best Practices for Mid-sized Meeting Room Collaboration

When it comes to workplace collaboration, huddle rooms are all the rage these days, and it makes sense — the number of huddle rooms, which are great for ad-hoc and small group collaboration, is growing at staggering rates. And while huddle rooms are well worth the hype, it’s important that we don’t overlook the mainstay […]

Best Practices for Mid-sized Meeting Room Collaboration

Windows Collaboration Displays by Avocor Debut

Avocor today introduced the first Windows collaboration displays featuring touchscreen, Windows 10 and Microsoft 365. The first Windows collaboration displays by Avocor will ship in December of 2018. Avocor says they worked with Microsoft to create a single-cable solution that connects a Windows PC to the display. It allows for immediate control of the camera […]

Windows Collaboration Displays by Avocor Debut

New Crestron Flex Communication & Collaboration Solutions Debut Integrated with Microsoft Teams

Crestron just debuted the Crestron Flex portfolio, the company’s new line of Communications & Collaboration (UCC) solutions for Microsoft Teams. Crestron Flex P100 Series: Crestron’s first voice-over-IP desk phones, the P100 Series includes Microsoft Teams in a desktop phone and enables businesses to take advantage of Cortana skills. Also available for Skype for Business, the P100 Series features a touchscreen. […]

New Crestron Flex Communication & Collaboration Solutions Debut Integrated with Microsoft Teams

Hardware as a Service – AV Is About Services and Not Things

No industry is immune to change, and this is even more true for technology-based economies whose life cycles can be measured in time spans as short as three months. If you’ve worked in the audiovisual (AV) industry in the past decade, you’ve witnessed a hardware-centric community transform itself into one driven by software and innovation. […]

Hardware as a Service – AV Is About Services and Not Things

You’re Not Good at Everything — Three Keys to Collaborative Success

Collaboration is so far past being a buzzword that it’s almost become kitschy. Nearly every booth at this past summer’s InfoComm show figured out a way to entwine the word collaboration in their messaging somewhere. But collaboration is truly important. It’s at the core of how the workplace is changing to accommodate modern work styles. […]

You’re Not Good at Everything — Three Keys to Collaborative Success

The Role Of the AV Integrator in Huddle Space Design

Crystal clear audiovisual. Effective acoustics. Perfect lighting. Comfortable and functional furniture. These are the key ingredients of the experiential huddle space design that creates truly memorable experiences and makes participants eager to return and use the space again. What Is Experiential Design? Millennials are likely the group to thank for inspiring the huddle room. They […]

The Role Of the AV Integrator in Huddle Space Design

Seven Best Practices for Huddle Room Collaboration

Huddle spaces are the Goldilocks of meeting rooms: not so big and formal they stifle creativity, yet not too small for a team to get work done. And while they’re great at facilitating collaboration, it’s important to note that they’re not “just another meeting room” when it comes to implementing video conferencing. These ad-hoc collaboration […]

Seven Best Practices for Huddle Room Collaboration

Using 4K to Make a Better UCC Room (But Not Because of Resolution)

Everyone who’s anyone in AV knows that 4K provides four times the resolution of 1080p. 1920×1080, commonly referred to as ‘Full HD’ was the industry’s high-resolution display platform for over a decade and has recently been usurped by 4K — which in ProAV-land is known as UHD, or 3840×2160 (or in DCI-world, 4096×2160) is, in […]

Using 4K to Make a Better UCC Room (But Not Because of Resolution)

Clevertouch Intros STAGE Collaborative Workspace Meeting Solution

Clevertouch just announced the launch of Stage, a lightweight quick to launch collaboration and meeting tool available on the Pro Series E-CAP panels. Stage is a real-time collaborative workspace meeting solution that gives any organization the opportunity to collaborate and annotate on shared documents seamlessly within a live video conferencing environment. Designed for both on-site and distributed […]

Clevertouch Intros STAGE Collaborative Workspace Meeting Solution

The NEW Electronic Lite Board

Keeping with the precedents set by other innovative AV companies, AV Phenom typically releases new products around InfoComm and ISE each year.  Phenom has successfully developed and released several products over the last few years including the Smart HUBby, the VoiceSaver Remote, the world’s first 4K Speakers, and most recently the ShareChair TM. It’s hard […]

The NEW Electronic Lite Board

Mersive Announces Release of Solstice Kepler for Enterprise Workspace Analytics and Solstice Pod Enhancements

Mersive Technologies is announcing the release of Solstice Kepler, a cloud-based, enterprise workspace analytics solution as well as other enhancements to the award-winning Solstice platform. Solstice Kepler will add a whole new dimension to workspace planning and optimization by providing key insights on how meeting rooms and team spaces are used. Kepler allows AV and IT teams to view […]

Mersive Announces Release of Solstice Kepler for Enterprise Workspace Analytics and Solstice Pod Enhancements