Technology News InFocus SimpleShare for wireless
presentation InFocus Corporation has an- nounced SimpleShare, a point- to-point presentation solution for wireless connectivity and sharing of videos, presentation, documents, data and more. A true cable replacement, Sim- pleShare is device-agnostic and allows users to share high-defi- nition video and sound wireless- ly to any display with an HDMI input, from any PC, Mac, DVD player, tablet, camcorder and many other devices in real time. SimpleShare allows for a sim-
plete conference room solution with three transmitters and a charging station; SimpleShare Touch Presentation System (INA-SIMINT1) supports up to three presenters with wireless touch control from a touch dis- play panel, and allows users to annotate on anything they pres- ent from their source device, as well as draw and write on a built-in digital whiteboard. “At InFocus, we recognize that companies and school districts have
varying equipment and Vision: reliability guaranteed
Most manufacturers will do anything not to talk about fail- ure rates. Most brands aim for 0.3% and don't achieve it. De- veloper and manufacturer Vi- sion AV ran RMA statistics for a customer recently, who in the last two years bought 25,000 products, and had a failure rate of 0.056%. An almost unheard of percentage! Vision’s Stuart Lockhart said: “Vision products are reliable - we measure it and mean it. And we underwrite it with a lifetime warranty.” New from Vision this month is the Qi Charger – an ultra thin (3.5 mm) mobile phone charger
arriving imminently.
A true cable replacement, SimpleShare is device-agnostic and allows users to share high-definition video and sound wirelessly to any dis- play with an HDMI input.
ple plug-and-play installation with no software, downloads, or network management required, making it incredibly user-friend- ly for anyone to implement without burdening the IT de- partment. Users can also switch between up to 254 presenters with the click of a button. able in three bundled solu- tions, there is a SimpleShare package for every application. The base model SimpleShare (INA-SIMS1) includes one transmitter and receiver per- fect for a small meeting room; SimpleShare Presentation Sys- tem (INA-SIMPS1) is a com-
Convenience and flexibility are the benefits said to be unlocked by Vivitek’s new NovoDS Cloud - an optional cloud-based ser- vice that enables device and content management of
Vivi-
tek’s NovoDS family of digital signage solutions. Vivitek’s No- voDS range – comprising the NovoDS-4K, NovoDS and No- voDSmini – is described as an easy-to-use digital signage con- tent creation and management solution that doesn’t require any technical or programming skills.
Capable of creating a real vi- sual impact, NovoDS is suited to a wide range of applications and environments, including those as diverse as government and public-sector organisations as well as SMEs, retail, educa-
device preferences, and true
collaboration is not always pos- sible when you are forced into a singular platform,” said InFocus VP of Marketing, Loren Shaw. “With
affordability and ease- of-use at the forefront, Simple- Share makes one-touch collab- oration accessible to anyone – regardless of the equipment being used. It’s a gamechanger for secure wireless sharing.” SimpleShare is now available worldwide through InFocus re- sellers and will be available di- rectly from the manufacturer at
www.infocus.com/store, starting at $899 US MSRP.
Vivitek introduces NovoDS Cloud
tion, corporate and hospitali- ty. With the optional NovoDS Cloud service, users have the flexibility to pull digital signage content from the cloud to one or more NovoDS devices. The media content for the playlist can also be loaded from a Remote Media alternative, such as picture or video saved in a Google drive, Dropbox, or an FTP site and so on It also gives users the means to re- motely manage content - and control their devices - from any- where over the Internet from a laptop, PC or a mobile phone via their NovoDS cloud ac- count. NovoDS Cloud service is available for £130 excl. VAT for a three-year-subscription for ac- tivation on one NovoDS device.
With the iPhone X now using the Qi ('che' means energy in Chinese) wireless charging standard sales will explode. Vi- sion also reports sales of a lot of USB-C cables and adaptors, including the USB-C to HDMI cable. USB 3.0 didn’t disrupt
the AV industry because of its backward compatible connec- tor, but the world is rapidly tak- ing up the new 3.1 standard, known as USB-C.
Stuart Lockhart explains: “USB-C is built to handle video streams so it’s likely to replace short HDMI and DP cables at desks. Thunderbolt 3 has ditched its own phys- ical connector and uses the USB-C standard – albeit with a higher quality cable to sup- port the necessary 40 Gbps bandwidth. Many laptops now have USB-C, and the hugely popular Microsoft Surface will likely replace it’s mini Display- Port with USB-C to service both video and USB functions next year. In response, Vision has introduced a range of cables and adaptors, including USB-C to HDMI cables which are now shipping.”
New Zytronic multi-touch controllers
Zytronic has announced a new range of multi-touch controllers to drive the next generation of Projected Ca- pacitive Technology (PCT and MPCT) solutions, including the integration of contactless technologies. In re- sponse to the growing demand for narrow screen borders, especially in interactive video walls, the new Zy- tronic ZXY500 touch controllers allow touch sensors to be designed with substantially reduced non-active borders.
For example, a 55” diagonal touch sensor can now be designed with sub 10-mm borders. A further advan- tage of the new ZXY500 controller is its compatibility with contactless technologies increasingly being in- tegrated alongside displays to en- able payments, customer tracking and battery charging technologies. RFID, NFC and Qi phone charging all generate wireless signals that can interfere with the operation of con- ventional touch screens, but the new controller has industry leading sig- nal-to-noise ratios and sophisticated algorithms that change dynamically to reject electromagnetic interference in the operating environment. The ZXY500 can support up to 80 simultaneous touches enabling true multi-user interactivity and the im- plementation of improved palm re- jection functionality. It also features increased speed, updating touch co-ordinates in just 1Ms at the con- troller output, reducing touch latency by a third compared to previous gen- eration controllers and improving the user experience.
Vision has introduced a range of cables and adaptors, including USB-C to HDMI cables which are now shipping
Optoma unveils new laser UST projector Gamers, TV and sports
fans
and movie buffs can get a 100- inch diagonal image from just 30cm away with Optoma’s new laser ultra-short throw home entertainment projector, the HZ40UST. With laser technol- ogy and bright 4000 lumens, this Full HD 1080p projector is ideal for use any time of day. And with low latency, gamers will enjoy quick response times.
The HZ40UST’s sleek de-
sign, small chassis and crisp white colour is designed to fit perfectly into any domestic in- terior. It comes equipped with a built-in speaker that delivers 10W audio and an audio output con- nector is also included, enabling connection to external sound systems.
The HZ40UST’s broad connec- tivity includes two HDMI and two VGA inputs for connection to any device.
It can be turned into a smart projector by connecting an HDMI dongle like the Google Chromecast, Amazon Fire or Apple TV to play games, stream videos and share photos on the big screen at home. The HZ40UST displays
true 3D
content from almost any 3D source, including 3D Blu-ray players, 3D broadcasting and the latest generation games consoles.
Because of its excellent noise im- munity, the ZXY500 allows the air gap between the display and the sensor to be decreased, reducing optical parallax and improving the appearance of the display. It can reliably detect touches through over 8 mm of overlaying cover glass, even with gloved hands and is unaffected by rain, dirt, oil or ice on the surface
of the touch sensor, making it ideal for outdoor and unattended installations. Despite the high drive signal, the
controller and touch sensor together can be powered from a 5V USB port, eliminating the need for a separate power supply. The ZXY500 is offered with USB output as standard, but also has options to add RS232, I2C, SPI and interfaces, to simplify system integration for industrial and medical applications. The smallest controller in the new ZXY500 controller family has been significantly reduced in size to just 61 x 64 mm for the 64-channel version. The flexible printed circuits (FPC) connecting the touch sensors to the new controllers have also been reduced to just 120 mm in length, further helping to achieve a compact overall touch system design. The exceptional performance and functionality of the controller results from the unique ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), a custom chip created by Zytronic specifically for the ZXY500 family. Zytronic invest- ed over $1 million in the development of the new ASIC, which has enabled a reduction in the cost and size of the controller and the elimination of much of the obsolescence risk associated with the use of third-party compo- nents for core parts of the design. The new ASIC’s are also available together with a STM 32-bit ARM Cortex micro- processor loaded with Zytronic’s pro- prietary touch detection algorithms as a ‘chip set’.
Zytronic is releasing a family of three ZXY500 controllers optimised for different sizes of touch interface. The 64-channel ZXY500-U-OFF-64 is recommended for sensors of 5” to 20” diagonal, the 128-channel ZXY500-U- OFF-128 for sensors of 20” to 55” and the 256-channel ZXY500-U-OFF-256 for sizes above 55”.
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