Vivitek and Vioso sign a partnership agreement to promote Vioso’s Anyblend edge-blending software technology with Vivitek’s large-venue projectors.

With the easy to use Vioso edge-blending technology, multiple-projector set-ups of up to 6 projectors are possible to show seamless, scalable, high resolution projection displays with all Vivitek projectors.

Vioso Anyblend aligns and blends multiple projectors by using an additional camera, a fully automated process achieves this task within minutes. The projectors have to be connected to a PC or laptop with Vioso Anyblend software installed and the application realizes seamless pictures within a matter of minutes.

With the OverView M series, Barco enters the small- to medium-sized control room market, offering a DLP-based, SXGA (1400x1050) resolution monitor wall that includes 10-bit color processing and an 80,000-hour LED light source. The first range of OverView M video wall cubes to hit the market are the 4:3 aspect ratio versions, available with screen diagonals of 60”, 67” and 80”. Barco told rAVe that widescreen models will become available later this year.

To ensure good wall uniformity in terms of color and brightness levels, the OverView MVL-615 comes with Barco’s Sense5 automatic calibration system. This system works with a color sensor that continuously measures the primary color levels of the entire wall, and adjusts white point and color when needed. This results in a significantly more accurate cube to cube uniformity over the lifespan of the display. Furthermore, the module’s robust structure makes the OverView MVL-615 suitable for use in industrial environments.

The OverView MVL-615 is 60" diagonally and can be stacked horizontally or vertically.

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First to market a fully stereoscopic 3D DLP projector more than a decade ago, Christie expands its product offerings for the visualization markets with its next-generation Mirage M Series high performance digital projectors.

The M Series joins the latest Mirage J Series, adding three new 3D capable products to the dual-lamp platform for a total of 21 projectors in the Mirage Series line up. The Mirage Series offers the broadest range of 3-chip DLP 3D active stereo digital projectors – single projector or in a multi-projector array – with advanced features that are specifically created for the demanding needs of the visualisation market.

“Both Mirage M and Mirage J Series projector platforms now come with an Intelligent Lens System (ILS™) that features auto lens calibration and an all new version Christie Twist™ hardware that is included as a standard feature of the projector for no additional cost,” notes Larry Paul, senior director, Technology and Visualisation Solutions Management, Christie.

Guinness World Record confirms London-based projection artist Ross Ashton of The Projection Studio and his Face Britain video projection work (onto the front of Buckingham Palace) officially as the most artists working on the same art installation.

The show ran for three evenings and it was also the first time that video projections have been used on the front of The Palace.

The work (formatted for the wide-screen canvass known as Buckingham Palace) featured 32 animated mosaic portraits of HM The Queen made up form a total of 201,948 self portraits submitted by children around the UK. Children aged 4 – 16 were invited by Face Britain to produce their own self-portraits thus encompassing all levels of skill and in any medium, including drawing, photography, textiles, painting and graphics.

Ashton designed and created the finished projection portraits working with Moscow-based Boris Glazer, using a bespoke version of his Mazaika software to encode all the photos and compose the 32 images from all the images.

The Christie TVC-1700 is a built-to-order video wall processor for control room installations that supports video wall configurations with up to 64 outputs and hundreds of inputs.

The TVC-1700 is managed by Christie MASTERSuite software, which Christie says enables instant access to any source of visual information in the control room and makes a tiled video-wall display perform as if it were a single, ultra-high resolution Windows desktop -- like a giant video canvas.

Christie TVC-1700 controllers ship with Windows 7 Ultimate so you can run multiple software applications on your video wall directly from the controller.

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Aimed at sales and technical staff of NEC’s specialist partner network, the NEC Training Academy hopes to build up the product intelligence of the partners to increase the know-how of partners’ sales and technical support functions.

In an increasingly complex display industry, the Training Academy will help partners become experts-- and, therefore, better ambassadors of NEC hardware and software solutions.

Training sessions with ensuing certification tests will be regularly held in Munich, and can be delivered in local languages on request.

The 2-day tutorial will have both theoretical and hands-on sessions covering NEC displays and projectors, including all product features and benefits as well as practical training on installing and remote-controlling video walls and installation projectors, and conducting display colour calibration.

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It’s hard for us in AV to imagine… 16,000 partners in a coliseum style setting all cheering for a single vendor. Welcome to the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference, WPC2012 in Toronto.

On stage there Microsoft confirmed it's on track for the touch-enabled Windows 8 RTM for general availability by late October.

CEO Steve Ballmer is on center stage, strangely enough seated as his true nature is to bounce and bounce on stage like Winnie the Pooh’s Tigger ("Bouncing is what Tiggers do best.")

One suspects this chair is a PR ploy to ground the buoyant CEO but while you might pin his body to the floor, you can’t nail down Ballmer’s rhetoric.

"This year is the most important year," he tells the crowd. "This year is really unparalleled…It's the core of Microsoft reinventing itself for a modern era…This is the year for all of us...” The crowd is enthusiastic for all this...(If Apple has fanboys, what do you call 16,000 Microsoft partners?)

It may be the year for all of us but last month Microsoft totally confused the AV industry when it hijacked its presentation table moniker (Surface) to label their new tablets, their “iPad-killers” (they said that, not us). “Why would you do that?” we asked. And the only answer we came up with (as our AV industry has really does have an inferiority complex) was that Microsoft Surface was moved to a more important product and industry.

Meanwhile on stage at WPC2012, Ballmer announces… "There's one more thing we'd like to show." The CEO of world famous software company then announces Microsoft will acquire Perceptive Pixel, a hardware maker of multitouch displays.

dnp denmark’s Global Sales Manager, Soeren Kraemmergaard, reports from InfoComm that the upgraded Supernova Flex Classic, Supernova Core II and new Supernova STS (Short Throw Screen) were particularly well received.

All models featured ISF Certified 08-85 Supernova screen material, with dnp’s proprietary optical front projection technology (enables high contrast images to be projected in high ambient light.)

The new Supernova STS, Short Throw screen captured interest from the education market. According to dnp, attendees remarked the display more resembled a flat panel than” the washed -out image of a smart board” that integrators are accustomed to seeing.

dnp also featured the 150” Zenith rear projection screen, showing live at InfoComm both the UEFA Euro 2012 Football Championships and the US Open via an HD direct TV feed. Even in USA, the dnp exhibit remained extremely crowded for the most popular football matches.

Elsewhere at InfoComm, projector maker Digital Projection Inc. featured 14 dnp Supernova Screens..

“This clearly illustrated the power of dnp’s optical light rejection technology,” noted Kraemmergaard. “When we start talking about ambient light, dnp still provides the killer solution.”

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