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Dec 21, 2017, 19:28
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Brad Grimes
Our blogger catches up with the folks at Mood Media to learn why planning for in-store holiday sounds (and scents) starts mid-summer, plus how the company seeks to personalize the "muzak" experience.
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Dec 20, 2017, 15:48
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Brad Grimes
This holiday season, Barneys found new ways to use video experiences to enhance their retail windows.
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Dec 12, 2017, 20:25
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Allison Tardif
Look within the pages of AVIXA’s new Industry Outlook and Trends Analysis (IOTA) report and you’ll notice a sizable (and largely new) product category — streaming media, storage and distribution (SMSD).
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Dec 6, 2017, 16:14
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Allison Tardif
If you really want to get immersive, you have to get meta. It’s one thing to interact within an experience, but it’s quite another to be able to look, real-time, into an analytics mirror and see exactly what that engagement looked like.
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Nov 29, 2017, 17:34
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Krystle Murphy
Just recently, the announcement was made of my election to the AVIXA (Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association) executive board’s Secretary-Treasurer role for 2018. This is a tremendous honor both professionally and personally!
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Nov 28, 2017, 16:24
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Allison Tardif
When Shared_Studios brought its Portals project to Times Square last month, it brought in one of its star curators to take a turn on Broadway.
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Nov 27, 2017, 16:41
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Julian Bullock
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Nov 27, 2017, 16:32
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Julian Bullock
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Nov 27, 2017, 14:47
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Julian Bullock
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Nov 27, 2017, 14:42
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Julian Bullock
There is nothing like the unconditional love of a beloved pet.
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Nov 17, 2017, 21:40
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Julian Bullock
Everybody’s been through it: You go to a conference and you end up at the back of the room and can’t see what’s on the slides. You’re in a classroom and you can’t read the displayed contents, even though you’ll need to know what it says for an exam. It happens so often in our day-to-day lives that we’ve just gotten used to it. But that doesn’t make it right.
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Nov 17, 2017, 21:02
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Julian Bullock
Bert Jacobs, Co-Founder/Chief Executive Optimist of the Life is Good Company, addressed InfoComm’s fourth annual AV Executive Conference in November. Among his messages was one that many audiovisual professionals understand well.
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Nov 17, 2017, 20:58
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Julian Bullock
I’m not a Trekkie. I watched Star Trek a little when I was very young, but that’s about it. It’s weird, though, because Star Trek is such a cultural phenomenon, how much you get to know — or think you get to know — about the show just by hearing other people talk about it all these years.
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Nov 17, 2017, 20:53
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Julian Bullock
The industry trend of assimilation continues and is picking up speed. We are witnessing this again and again as more features are embedded into a single device and manufacturers compete to provide a breadth of technology.
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Nov 17, 2017, 20:45
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Julian Bullock
I don’t remember the exact moment when I realized I was getting older. But I remember the day. I was listening to Steely Dan in my car when my teenage daughter implored, “You need to turn off this old people’s music right now!”
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Nov 17, 2017, 20:42
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Julian Bullock
Often we get obsessed with new ideas, new technologies, and new initiatives that we can forget that a key part of strategy is what you are going to say “no” to. This applies to us individually, in our companies and as an industry.
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Nov 17, 2017, 20:33
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Julian Bullock
I had a chance to connect recently with Marques Girardelli, manager of electronics platforms at Planar and Leyard for an in-depth discussion on connectivity trends. We started with the basics: DisplayPort 1.4.
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Nov 17, 2017, 20:17
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Allison Tardif
This past weekend, approximately 200 AV industry executives gathered at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Key Biscayne, Florida for the annual AV Executive Conference (AVEC).
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Nov 14, 2017, 16:48
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Julian Bullock
We all know that consumer devices have taught people to touch displays.
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Nov 14, 2017, 16:47
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Julian Bullock
I have had an iWatch for several months now and have enjoyed using it for messaging notifications, calling an Uber car, making purchases, capturing ideas into Evernote or accessing boarding passes.
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