6 Display Technologies from End-User Focused InfoComm Connections

Shown off at Integrated Systems Europe 2015 as a prototype, last week Planar announced its LookThru Transparent Display. The display is aimed toward retail, museums, hospitality and universities, in order to provide a more dynamic viewing experience of products or exhibits. The Planar LookThru Series feature interactive transparent OLED and LCD displays that allow consumers to view the physical product behind the display. Designers can overlay text, digital images and full-motion video onto physical objects or scenes that sit behind the glass.

Kramer announced at the show it’s new VIA Campus. Marketed toward the higher education market, the VIA still has application in corporate spaces, especially for training purposes. VIA campus supports BYOD learning environments by allowing users to connect and present to a main display via a laptop, computer or mobile device, and offers Mac, PC, iOS, Android mirroring and third-party apps for remote learning and collaboration. Furthermore, users can edit documents, use the display as a digital whiteboard, share any size file and stream full-frame HD video. VIA Campus also offers “e-polling” for instant surveys and “e-xam” features for multimedia tests with immediate feedback.

SiliconCore’s 1.2 mm LED Display achieves Full HD at just 110 inches, and has a viewing distance of less than one meter. The display also comes with the additional benefit of being scalable for any size or shape application with no seams. The clarity, uniformity and viewing angle ensure comfortable large screen viewing. SiliconCore’s unique Common Cathode method of driving the LEDs has made this record breaking pixel pitch possible by improving the efficiency of the resistors, also resulting in market leading total cost of ownership.

Jupiter’s Canvas is a collaborative visualization tool that allows users to access and share video, audio, and data with colleagues anywhere in the world on a variety of devices. Wirelessly connect to the system from a laptop by entering a URL for screen sharing. Share live H.264 video streams, VNC viewer windows, active web browser windows, and desktop presentation screens, with two-way annotation, and create shared whiteboards for real-time collaboration. All canvas participants share a voice chat, while Microsoft Lync integration and the ability to connect via SIP conferencing systems allow for multiple participants on different systems.

AVI-SPL recently partnered with Microsoft in order to help push the powerful new Microsoft Surface displays. At the show, AVI-SPL showed off the many capabilities of the Surface display, including interactivity, inkback and touchback sharing, one-touch meeting start and more. Microsoft Surface will be available through AVI-SPL in January.

Prysm showed off its Cascade Video Wall, run by the powerful Synthesis software. After the recent announcement of Synthesis 2.0 software, the video wall has been upgraded to include real-time, multi-site mirroring of content, powerful and easy to use administrative tools, and lightning fast cloud-based services. At the show, Prysm showed off the mirroring capabilities of the system.