November 29, 2018
By: Devon Henry
This month’s Video Working Group meeting was all about Sling, a video streaming service. It’s an affordable setup that is designed to be incredibly user-friendly and powerful. Stephen Toback reported seeing this at NAB earlier this year. While the model is...
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November 20, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
Creating a basic Zoom Room couldn't be easier. You get a computer, connect a display, keyboard, and mouse, and then install the Zoom Room software on the computer. Once you register the room and iPad (or another control device capable of...
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November 19, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
Last week, Cisco visited Duke University's Technology Engagement Center (TEC) to offer an update on their WebEx/codec offerings. Greg Schalmo, a Senior Collaboration Architect at Cisco, detailed the transformation WebEx has undergone over the past six months. First, WebEx is...
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November 12, 2018
By: Todd Stabley
With their commitment to innovation and fresh ideas, it might be too early to call Warpwire an "old dog," but they definitely learned a cool new trick recently that has expanded the ways it is now possible to use Warpwire...
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November 5, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
While demoing a Zoom Room, I sometimes get the all-too-familiar look of "I get it... this is great and all, but our students, faculty, and/or staff want a simple solution. They don't want to download an app, wireless sharing isn't...
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By: Richard Mitchell
One of the most overlooked technical aspects of in-office or at-home online teaching is audio capture. AV folks are quick to recommend $100-$200 webcams to significantly improve the video quality and flexibility of the teaching environment. But, when it comes...
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November 2, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
Logitech offered a sneak peek at their soon-to-be-released Rally USB-connected video conferencing solution. While Logitech has had somewhat similar offerings in the past (ie. Logitech Group), the Rally is a bit of a game changer as it competes more directly with the...
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November 1, 2018
By: Devon Henry
Vyond isn’t only for animating cartoon characters. It’s also a great tool for easy and flexible graph animations. I really encourage people to play around with the tools inside. This example was made very quickly, but this kind of thing...
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October 31, 2018
By: Joseph Johnson
It's fall, pumpkin spice is in the air, the holidays are Christmas decorations are going up, and software giant has just released updates to their entire Creative Cloud suite of applications. Because the updates are so extensive, I've decided to...
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October 26, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
Duke is considering deploying Crestron's NVX network-based AV solution in a unique active learning/gaming environment, so we sent a few members of Duke's AV community to attend Crestron's NVX Design and Application (DM-NVX) and DigitalMedia Networking Certification (DM-NVX-N) classes. This was a...
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