Check out the article about Augmented Reality written by our content creation and production coordinator, Tim Wingert, that is featured in the current issue of Mid-Atlantic Events Magazine.
Prior to the 21st century, much of the hype about Virtual Reality was based upon the excitement of experiencing a newly imagined and artificially created world in which someone could be placed to act and experience as they wished. Grand scenarios of virtual reality were forecasted as scientists and culture experts predicted VR in ways that incited visions of the incredible worlds created in the famous “Holodecks” from the fictitious Star Trek universe.
When I was in college in the late 80’s, I worked for a large office supply retailer. We sold a sizeable number of welcome and menu boards, the kind where you stuck letters and numbers to a framed board with grooves that aligned them and held them in place. Our customers used them to provide a personal touch to guests visiting their office. We also sold large corkboards and magnet boards that were used to post information internally about upcoming company events, activities, and goals. My how times have changed, or have they?
Recently, Sharp Electronics announced they would be leaving the consumer flat panel display market. Their reason: the consumer television market is saturated with competition and there is no longer any room for them to generate a profit. Sharp’s solution to this dilemma is to exit the market and license their brand to Chinese manufacturer Hisense. For many years, Sharp has been at the top of the television market. This change has been coming for several years; it is but one example of a market that continues to be in flux.
Integrators and custom table manufacturers worked together for a Corporation Executive Boardroom install.
During the course of my tenure in the audio visual industry, I have interviewed a number of project managers and worked for a number of companies who claimed they “managed the entire project lifecycle from concept to completion.” In all honesty, I too have claimed to be a master of this skill. The problem with this statement is that in most cases, the only individual(s) truly involved in a project throughout its entire lifecycle is the client. Key players will join and leave the team along the way, but only the client is there from beginning through the end and beyond.
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We're on a roll! IMS Technology Services has been named on the Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Companies for the fourth year in a row!
Congratulations to the IMS team members honored in the 40 CI Influencers Under 40: Class of 2015
Video Conferencing is not just for the conference room anymore. Recent technological advances that have enabled video conferencing on smartphones, tablets and other BYOD platforms, combined with innovative new technologies that interface with these devices, have resulted in the proliferation of video in many applications that, until recently, were confined to audio-only interactions.