News And Trends Writer, AVIXA
Charles Anderson is an LA-based writer covering science, technology, and culture, with work appearing in The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Spinoff. His immersive and interactive work has also appeared at Venice Film Festival and SXSW, and been recognized by the Webbys. He writes on AV and tech for AVIXA.
One Third of This Museum Is a Data Center
Refik Anadol's DATALAND asked its architects to design a building around live AI compute, real-time rendering, and data-center-grade cooling, not curation. What resulted looks nothing like a traditional museum, because roughly a third of it isn't one.
The Fires Took 16,000 Structures. A Four-Camera Rig Rebuilt Seven of Them in 3D.
When the Eaton and Palisades fires tore through Los Angeles in January 2025, a team from Arizona State University raced into the ash with a camera rig and a 3D capture technique called Gaussian Splatting in an effort to document what was lost. The technology behind it is now spreading into real estate, museums, construction, and the wider spatial computing industry.
Machine Learning Is Now Separating Voices From Noise in Real Time, Live
L-Acoustics Source Intelligence uses AI to isolate vocals in real time, cutting noise by up to 40 dB for tours, theaters, and live events.
An AI Agent Now Has Write Access to Your AV Rack
DVIGear's new DisplayNet Connect lets Claude, OpenAI Codex, and other AI agents issue commands to production AV-over-IP systems in plain language. That raises a new security question: what happens when the command is wrong?
The Physics of a Room that Whispers in Two Languages at Once
How a signal-processing technique developed to map jet-engine noise ended up inside many modern conference rooms.
LA28 is Quietly Rebuilding the Olympic Broadcast Pipeline as Software
LA28 is transforming Olympic broadcasting with cloud-based workflows, virtualized production, and IP infrastructure that reduces reliance on broadcast trucks.
Where Old Video Walls Go to Die (Or Don't)
A commercial video wall is specified down to the pixel before it goes into service. The day it comes down, a different calculation takes over, and it depends less on whether the equipment still works than on whether anyone can make the economics of keeping it alive add up.
Right to Repair Just Became an AV Problem
Colorado's broad new electronics repair law may reach professional audio and AV hardware, even though the statute never mentions the AV industry by name.
The Impossible Math of a MicroLED Wall
Inside the nano-scale manufacturing problem that keeps the sharpest video walls in the world rare, expensive, and just out of reach.
What's Left When the World Cup Leaves Town
Spain lifted the FIFA World Cup trophy on Sunday. In stadiums across North America, the AV systems that made it all possible are only getting started.