office design

in today's businessenvironment how well you communicate with people insideand outside an organization is very important. and the toolsthat are used to communicate sometimes determine howsuccessful a company will be. so i've turned to barco, a globaltechnology company that designs

office design, and develop visualizationsolutions that are really going to helpbrandstar's communications. i've asked dave fitzgerald anddan corr from barco to stop by. they're one of the leaders inthe industry of visualization

solutions. barco is avisualization company. we make products that show images, thatshow content, that show information. and we makeproducts that range from projectors to monitors, tocollaboration equipment. some of the most noticeable places thatyou'll see barco are places like the super bowl for example.or large venues where there are large projected images onbuildings. you'll also see us on led walls in times square.we've got a very high profile, visualization products locatedall over the globe. given what

this company does in aproduction environment you're working with video, you'reworking with partners across the globe. you're bringing invideo teleconferencing, you're reviewing media types. socialmedia is a big portion of your out take. all of that needs tobe seen. and every surface, potentially, needs to be avehicle to support that. so i've turned to barco toprovide the projection for our conference rooms and video wallsthat will display our video message throughout the building.and today we're doing a site

survey so i can show david anddan all of the different areas of the job site that we haveprepped for their equipment. i had some really big ideas on howto make these spaces more collaborative and i knew thetechnology existed in order to make it happen. so i reallywanted to sort of activate the space with technology. ourreception desk comes out to about here and it's just thisbig block of stone that sort of bites into that wall because theroom has a little bit of asymmetry. and then the firstthing you see is that video

wall. the first area that wasmost concerning to me was the sense of arrival. i've workedwith them and we've come up with a video wall for behind thereception desk. this does a couple of things. it bringsenergy to the space and it also informs the person who is comingto this office space immediately whatever information we want toprovide that day. additionally, in the executive boardroom whichis adjacent to the reception area we are doing another videowall. and the energy that media can produce especially becausebrandstar is a media production

company, it was important for meto be able to display all of this media that everyone isproducing to the employees. but it was here in the big boardroomspace that i really felt excited to share my design vision oftechnology with david and dan. so here is the center line ofthe table. so go ten feet this way and ten feet this way. thislooks like it was cut for access? so that is actually atouch screen for av control. when we first talked to kalynshe had big plans for this exciting new meeting space. shehad a vision that she wanted

this to be cutting edge, shewanted it to be user friendly, all of which are things that ourproducts are well suited for. i saw this long wall and wetalked about it with kalyn and we wanted to dosomething unusual there. at barco we very much believe thatinformation should be everywhere so we wanted to take this longwall and create this 20 foot screen with blended projectors,not your typical aspect ratio, it's not video in a box it'sjust information on a wall. so as installation of all of thiscool technology gets underway

it's wonderful to see thetransformation taking place. i love dan's idea of blendingimages from several projectors onto a large solid wall surfacefor a seamless projection. plus, it utilizes it's softwarepartner x20. x20 creates a platform that allows us to takeour content that we are creating, distribute itthroughout the office. we can have it in our lobby, in ourconference rooms, in the private office spaces and it allows usto do some messaging for the employees and the visitors inour office. but i was blown away

by another one of barco'sofferings. a device called clickshare that allows anyone toshare images and content from their own device and display iton a video screen or video wall. you can literally sit there,plug the clickshare button into your laptop or select theclickshare app on your iphoneor tablet and share instantly with an entire meeting room. itdoesn't matter if they're the 18th person in the back ofthe room or the person up at the front of the room, whoever wantsto share their content will have

the ability to have a button ontheir device, be able to push the button and be up either onthe big screen in the front or the video wall that we'll beputting over here on the large wall on the side. fortunately,with products like clickshare which make it very easy to justpress and button and your information blasts on thescreen. certainly i think the employees are going to be blownaway immediately by the amount of technology that we'veactually put into this space.

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