Audio Visual Insights for Web-Conferencing and Live Streaming

It’s certainly a unique time for those of us in the professional audiovisual industry. For designers, integrators, re-sellers and technology managers, the niche industry that usually consumes us with the deeply technical side of things has now shifted into mainstream conversations. 

Why? As most of us have noticed, the news media, local municipalities, counties, schools and businesses have been working feverishly to convey critical information to the public about the recent outbreak of COVID-19, known commonly as coronavirus. While many may disagree about the severity of the virus, two things are certain. The virus is spreading, and businesses are cancelling conferences, meetings and other events to prevent their employees' exposure. 

According to The Lancet, “the national security strategy for COVID-19 within China has shifted to so-called wartime control measures,” with cities on lock down.

 

Topics: Video Conferencing, Webinars, audio conferencing, Wireless Presentation, Touch screen LED LCD, Zoom.US, barco clickshare, YouTube Live, Live Streaming, zoom, Zoom Rooms, vmix, Video Production, facebook live, Broadcast Camera, BYOD, content sharing, collaboration technology, Sharp Aquos Board, Coronavirus

At Conference Room Systems (CRS) and our Phila.-area integration company, Haverford Systems, our technology experts have been focused all month long on getting back to school. With the December holiday season behind us, and most college students beginning their spring semesters, we thought it was the perfect time to showcase a variety of audio visual solutions that are helping the higher education market.

Topics: Video Conferencing, Webinars, Epiphan, Sharp touchscreen LCD, white noise, Auto Tracking Cameras, content sharing, wireless sharing, collaboration technology, audio visual technologies for higher education, higher education technologies, Sharp Aquos Board

This week on ConferenceCast we talked to Angela Hlavka the founder of UC Workspace. Angela gave us insights and updates on their product Quicklaunch. Listen to or read the interview below.

Topics: Video Conferencing, web conferencing, room booking, WebEX, skype for business, huddle room

Zoom Video Communications seems to be dominating the world of video conferencing with lovers of the platform using over 39 billion meeting minutes a year. We wanted to find out their story and see what it is that makes people choose Zoom over the multitude of other options. Listen as Laura Padilla shares Zoom's Past, Present, and Future on ConferenceCast.

Topics: Video Conferencing, Zoom.US, zoom, Zoom Rooms, Zoom Room Systems, zoom webinars, Podcast

 

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The Best Wide Angle Conferencing Cameras and Kits
- Small to Medium Conference Rooms-

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Video conferencing is mainly associated with corporate boardrooms and offices trying to boost productivity and is not often though of for house of worship. But as churches become more comfortable with technology, many are starting to see the advantages of using professional conferencing technology in their ministries. Churches all over the country are using live streaming services to extend their reach and create lasting content. This same type of video technology can be used to bring people closer together in an even more personal way with video conferencing.

Topics: Video Conferencing, web conferencing, wireless usb conference camera, Church, House of Worship

Remember last week when we talked about Zoom Video Communicationsadding live streaming to their webinar platform (article here)? Now the video production software market is looking for a piece of the pie, in a converging industry with a combined worth an estimated $100+ Billion by 2020 (Video Communications & Live Streaming — See sources below)!

So let’s look at one of the live streaming industries most innovative video production companies who has slipped in a peer-to-peer video conferencing add-on to their latest release. vMix just announced new feature called “vMix Call” and I think this is a GAME CHANGER for the live streaming market! vMix Call allows users to instantly launch a video conference call inside their professional 4K capable video production software suite. As you will see in this video vMix now supports the ability to add an input specifically for video calling with guests on your live show. This is perhaps one of the most exciting features being released in vMix 19 AND it’s already available for BETA testing.

Topics: Video Conferencing, Live Streaming, vmix