Webex by Cisco is the first videoconferencing solution to be certified for use by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The CJEU has been relying on Webex to host hybrid meetings and hearings, and after months of analysis, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) confirmed that the…
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Crisis management centre equipped with Sony Crystal LED
A crisis management centre in Turkey is using Sony Crystal LED with a 1.26mm pixel pitch to monitor information on natural, technological and man-made disasters. AKOM – which opened in Istanbul in 2000, 16 months after an earthquake killed more than 17,000 people in Turkey – is the control centre…
Solid State Logic audio production platform supports NASA TV
A Solid State Logic System T broadcast audio production platform has been installed to support TV operations at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The System T S500 large-format modular mixing console and TE2 Tempest Engine provide routeing, mixing and processing of all broadcast audio sources for Nasa TV’s…
Scalable Display Manager makes navy training shipshape
A technology company providing maritime simulators for the Mexican navy turned to Scalable Display Technologies when it needed to expedite the calibration of its displays. Pranatec has built simulators for three naval academies and a training facility via software platform NAUTIS, which has been created in collaboration with VSTEP Simulation.…
Holographic witnesses give evidence before US judges
Holographic witnesses have given evidence in mock trials presided over by federal and military judges in the US. The trials have taken place in a partnership between the Centre for Legal and Court Technology at the College of William & Mary and holographic display booth pioneer Proto. Speaking in a…
Bosch’s Dicentis system facilitates G7 and Nato meetings
Officials at the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Germany and Nato foreign ministers' meeting in Romania at the end of last year relied on Dicentis from Bosch to provide clear communications in multiple languages. Dicentis offers a fully IP-based architecture, and is built on open standards to provide flexibility and high-quality…
US army refused funding for Microsoft AR combat goggles
The US Congress has rejected the US army’s request for $400m to invest in up to 6,900 pairs of Microsoft combat goggles. Soldiers wearing the goggles, which are adapted from Microsoft’s augmented reality (AR) HoloLens headsets, in field tests have suffered “mission-affecting physical impairments” including headaches, eyestrain and nausea. Congress…
ATG Danmon system captures chimes of iconic bell tower
ATG Danmon has completed the installation of an audio system in the clock tower next to one of Europe's longest-established national legislatures. The assignment formed the culmination of a five-year restoration project that included repairs to the clock and the masonry of the tower. The chimes from the tower's five…
Intercom as a service speeds up police response in Brazil
For nearly four decades, Brazilian company Savana Comunicacoes has provided Clear-Com technology for a wide variety of applications, including broadcast, live events, corporate, house of worship and industrial projects. Now, Savana has teamed up with Painal Multiservicos to extend its reach into the public and government sectors by using Clear-Com…
Police display hologram of rape suspect in shopping centres
Dutch police have received 300 tips in the cold case of a man who raped two girls and attacked a third in 2010, after developing a hologram of the suspect. The life-sized hologram was displayed in a holobox in two shopping centres and on TV crime investigation programmes. Dutch press…