The solution specialist for creative and technical professionals to imagine, create and deliver the world’s most spectacular live experiences, is providing a lifeline to its community in light of the recent global health crisis. disguise has launched ‘disguise OnDemand’ – a virtual hub that features access to free training and webinars exploring key features and elements of the disguise workflow. Held in multiple languages, multiple times a day, the platform will feature exclusive content, including the opportunity for the community to take part in specialist discussions on key industry topics, and hear from customers during spotlight discussions on showstopping case studies. Designed…
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Guidelines designed to help workers across industries stay safe as videoconferencing usage soars 3x in just over a month BlueJeans Network, which provides videoconferencing services in more than 180 countries, today released “8 Best Practices for Safe Videoconferencing During COVID-19.” These guidelines are designed to ensure the safety and security of organisations and their people, many of whom are adapting at breakneck speed to remote meetings, events and service delivery. Recent usage data released by BlueJeans shows how fast employees around the globe have shifted from working in offices to working from home since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak. In less…
Touch screens, remotes and anything with a hard switch…in these troubling times, keeping AV equipment clean and as free from germs as possible has never been so vital. Philips Professional Display Solutions offers its advice for helping mitigate the threat of germs. On average we pick up our mobile phones 58 times, and touch them as many as 2,617 times, every single day. For most of us, making a call, reading an email, sending a message or posting a Tweet, is something we do without thinking twice. But did you know, the average mobile phone carries up to 9,000 times…
Creative Works London delivers immersive and spectacular visuals to Guns N’ Roses’ North American Tour using disguise and Unreal. When Guns N’ Roses’ successful ‘Not In This Lifetime’ tour switched to disguise for its North American leg, it opened up new creative possibilities to enhance the already visually spectacular rock show. The tour wrapped last November with two shows at The Colosseum in Caesars Palace, Las Vegas. The three-year world tour played 158 concerts selling more than 5 million tickets and grossing $584 million. The ‘Not In This Lifetime’ tour that started in 2016 marked the first time that Axl…
UK distributor of video and audio solutions, Tukans Limited, has been acquired by CUK Audio, a specialist solutions distributor serving the AV, installation, live and MI markets, with operations in both the UK and Ireland. “A few years ago, as CUK Audio started its transition into supplying video products, I realised that Tukans would be a great fit with us, and I’m are delighted that Yvonne and Andrew shared my vision and could see how this acquisition would benefit both companies.” says Stuart Thomson, Managing Director, CUK Audio. The acquisition substantially enhances the group’s expertise and expands the solutions…
Cambridge, United Kingdom (20/02/2020) – Adder Technology, a global leader in connectivity solutions and high performance IP KVM, is a new 2020 entrant in The Sunday Times 11th annual HSBC International Track 200 league table. The International Track, compiled and published by Fast Track, ranks the top 200 mid-market private companies in Britain with the fastest-growing international sales. Adder Technology ranked alongside leading British brands such as FatFace, Mountain Warehouse and tech companies such as automotive engineer Envisage Group and AV systems integrator AVMI. It is one of seven companies in the East of England to be included and was…
Who or what was missing? By Bryan Denyer It’s hard to imagine conditions more adverse for an event. ISE could so easily have gone the way of Mobile World Congress. So, LG was missing; Up to 50 Chinese companies were prohibited from travelling to Amsterdam; and apparently some 50,000 show visitors were affected by the coronavirus, the storm or both. But, from my perspective, well done Mike Blackman and the ISE organising team for sticking with the plan. Missing visitors aside, ISE 2020 will be remembered for more than the virus and the storm. As always, the content is the thing.…