Santa Claus has taken 'pole' position in Barco's first Control Room Manager of the Year awards. The idea of Santa delivering toys to children across the globe on Christmas Eve may be a centuries-old tradition – but his business infrastructure is anything but ‘traditional’. At the heart of his huge…
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…
AVI-SPL has acquired the assets of Mexican company Multimedia. Multimedia – which has its HQ in Monterrey and an office in Mexico City – is the commercial AV and UC systems integration and IT services subsidiary of Grupo Multimedia. Once the transaction is finalised, Multimedia will operate under the AVI-SPL…
Samsung has supplied what the company describes as the largest microLED screen in Latin America to a shopping centre in Bogota, Colombia. The digital signage screen measures 172 inches diagonally, is 4.032 m in length by 2.268m in height, and weighs 280 kg. The project at the Parque de Colina…
The first LED-based virtual production studio in an Australian high school is using cameras and a switcher from Blackmagic Design. Livingstone Christian College, near Brisbane, has installed a 16' by 9’ LED screen, Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K digital film cameras and an ATEM Mini Pro live production switcher for…
A son et lumiere show, bringing together video mapping, projections on trees, music, sound effects and narration, is being held at a Mayan archeological site in Mexico. Pasos de Luz, consists of a one-kilometre long journey through seven stops at key landmarks on the Dzibilchaltún site, and is designed…
Arthur Holm boardroom technology has been combined with AV systems from Crestron and Televic to create a sustainable, secure and easy-to-use room for the Congress of Colombia's Chamber of Representatives. The challenge was to enable politicians to access a wider range of information sources and communication tools while performing their…
Two universities have jointly held the first intercontinental university class to use Professor Hologram technology. On one side of the Atlantic ocean were students and professors from Tecnológico de Monterrey, a private Mexican institution known as Tec, which developed the holographic system. And on the other side of the ocean…
Founded in 1842, the University of Chile can boast 21 Chilean presidents and two Chilean Nobel Prize winners among its alumni. In its quest for new ways to connect professors and the 43,000 students across five campuses, the university has installed Bose Professional's videoconferencing technology. Designed by Chilean technology integrator…
An AI-powered 'hologram' of Diego Maradona is answering questions from fans, in a travelling exhibition located on a working private jet. The Tango D10S jet and exhibition have been financed by fintech company Give and Get. G&G CEO Gaston Kolker told Wired Magazine that the visualisation of the deceased footballer would…
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