Igloo Vision, the shared immersive workspace company, and Aurora Immersive, a division of Osborne Technologies, have partnered to bring immersive classroom technology within the reach of primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across the UK. Osborne Technologies launched Aurora Immersive over a decade ago. After completing over 70 successful projects, they have become an established market leader across the education sector; developing and delivering bespoke immersive and sensory environments. Aurora’s immersive spaces can bring the real world into your school allowing teachers to take their students beyond the classroom, giving them experiences that they would not ordinarily encounter. Based in the UK, with offices in USA, Canada and Australia, and a demo centre opened earlier…
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BrightSign, LLC®, the global market leader in digital signage media players, announced BrightSign players are powering an interactive perfume display at House of Rituals, the new flagship store for Rituals on Kalverstraat, Amsterdam. To launch the Talisman perfume collection, a new market for House of Rituals, and to mark the brand’s 20th anniversary, Dutch audiovisual company First Impression built an innovative scent display controlled by BrightSign players. Once a perfume is selected based on the customer’s inputs on an iPad, an LED light underneath the bottle is illuminated. If the customer picks up the glass pipette from the perfume bottle,…
DTEN are pleased to announce the appointment of Romain Vital as Country Manager for France and Southern Europe. Romain comes with a wealth of experience in Channel Sales across the AV / UC / Collaboration space and has previously worked for LifeSize, Polycom and most recently Pexip before joining DTEN. Doug Remington, General Manager of DTEN EMEA, stated, “We are thrilled to have Romain join our EMEA Team. Romain’s natural drive, passion and experience will be of great benefit to DTEN and our customers. He will be focused on accelerating the rapid channel expansion of the DTEN business within France as well as developing Spain,…
EE the UK’s biggest mobile operator, unveils its new concept store designed to give customers a more immersive experience combined with expert knowledge. The One Braham store will also act as a hub for local communities, as part of EE’s commitment to deliver the most personal and local service on the high street. Located within BT’s new London headquarters, One Braham, the store showcases the best in converged technology with expert face-to-face advice and demonstrations. Interactive zones, equipped with touchscreens and demo areas, bring to life a range of household devices, including games consoles, streaming platforms, and fitness gear. Customers…
IBC announces that the in person IBC2021 event has been cancelled. The move follows growing concerns about the COVID-19 situation in The Netherlands, which has deteriorated over the past week, and feedback from the IBC exhibitor and visitor community. The IBC Partnership Board made the decision today in order to prevent exhibitors and visitors from travelling to The Netherlands. Due to take place on December 3-6 at The RAI in Amsterdam, IBC20201 will now focus on bringing the content and technology community together via IBC Digital.
Dorset-based Train AV has been nominated as the exclusive training partner for leading retail-tech development company Nexmosphere in the Netherlands. Nexmosphere, founded in 2016, boasts an international team of retail specialists, technology developers and “behind-the-screeners”, specializing in new sensors for retail market integration. Train AV, launched in 2018 as a dedicated audio visual training company, will be covering the UK to provide training and commissioning on triggers and switches for digital signage. It will be the only company in UK qualified to train on Nexmosphere’s range of award-winning retail tech products. Nexmosphere’s founder Hubert van Doorne explains: “The industry is…
UK Distributor of creative workplace solutions Ascentae announces a new partnership with Huddly to bring artificial intelligence into UK meeting rooms with compact, wide-angle USB conference cameras. “We’re really excited that Ascentae and Huddly will be working together in the future. Huddly represents another example of our growing ecosystem of brands that forms part of the future around intelligent data driven workplace solutions. Huddly has put focus on building smart video conferencing solutions that offer a great integration with our existing portfolio of scalable and seamless meeting room products that can support a smarter future workplace.” says Jon Knight, Managing…
Hailed as one of the most impressive tech overhauls seen in education in Europe, the historic and internationally recognised Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium (GSG) in Velbert, western Germany, has installed almost 100 new Philips interactive digital displays and monitors to revolutionise the way it teaches and communicates with its students. With 720 students and 55 teachers, GSG carries the name of iconic anti-war activists Sophie and Hans Scholl – brother and sister, and founders of the now revered ‘White Rose’ movement – a resistance group set up in 1942 and run by students at the University of Munich to decry Nazi crimes and…
Nureva Inc., inventor of groundbreaking technology that simplifies audio conferencing, announces its participation in ISE 2022 with the worldwide debut of Nureva XT, an integrated end-to-end solution that combines Nureva audio with a camera and premium services for hybrid classrooms. Visitors to ISE at FIRA Barcelona, Gran Via from 1-4 February 2022, can visit Nureva’s stand 2F250 in the Unified Communications and Education Technology Zone to learn how the company’s game-changing audio conferencing systems make it easy and affordable to get consistent, full-room audio coverage in mid-size and large meeting and learning spaces. Nureva systems deliver the audio performance that…
A month after collaborating on the Team GB Olympics Homecoming, Transition Video was back at London’s SSE Wembley Arena to help deliver another hybrid event, using Green Hippo’s Boreal+ Media Server for The National Lottery’s Paralympics GB Homecoming. Great Britain’s Paralympic stars claimed a total of 124 podium places and were welcomed home from Tokyo with a line-up of artists that included Jamie Cullum, Birdy and Raymond Antrobus. In the live audience, NHS workers gathered for the spectacular, which ran video highlights of the Paralympians’ performances as part of a Channel 4 broadcast. Transition Video’s Kate Perring worked as Server…