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This is where we share our thoughts on what it takes to make things happen – from case studies on our spaces to thought-leadership on our industry.
When you’re trying to improve the audio experience in your spaces, there are a lot of high-tech, fancy upgrades you can make. However, there’s one easy way to improve sound quality for both speakers and microphones—acoustic treatment! Using absorption and diffusion panels and baffles, you can make sure your space sounds great without compromising aesthetics.
Today, on Tech Tuesday, we're looking at Biamp's foray into the USB video bar market. With an impressive 27 mic array and super easy setup, the VBC2500 provides great sound in an easy-to-use package.
A 2014 study found that employees lost up to 86 minutes of productivity per day due to noise distractions. However, sound masking systems can help. Using noise generators and emitters can increase privacy, reduce liability, and even increase employee satisfaction.
Sennheiser’s TeamConnect 2 is a go-to for larger spaces, but now there’s a perfect fit for smaller rooms! Meet the new TeamConnect Ceiling Medium—designed for small to medium spaces with the same top-notch quality.
Crestron’s AirMedia system features multiple ways to do wireless screen sharing and bring-your-own-device meetings beyond just using a dongle—supporting AirPlay, Chromecast, Miracast, and driver-free screen sharing.
This week on Tech Tuesday, we’re taking a look at the smallest video bar in the Yealink MeetingBar Series! We’ve talked a lot about video bars from Yealink over the last little while, and they’ve worked great for us, but there’s always been a bit of a hole in their product line: something small, simple and affordable to enable Microsoft Teams Rooms or Zoom Rooms in huddle spaces. Now they have, and we’ve gotten hands on with it: the Yealink A10.
A longtime provider of IP phone systems, Yealink has branched out a lot more in recent years to meeting room systems. However, upon looking at them from the outside, the product lines seem a bit confusing. Today, we’re taking a deep dive into Yealink’s video conferencing products, what sets them apart from each other, and the best ways to use them.
Located just outside of Manitoba, Oak Hammock Marsh is a birding hotspot featuring 36 square kilometers of restored prairie marsh and tall grass prairie. A joint project between Ducks Unlimited and the Province of Manitoba, Oak Hammock Marsh’s mission is to “Connect People with Wetlands.” We installed a comprehensive presentation engaging presentation system for their 118-seat multimedia theatre.
With a wide range of programs from interactive media development to aerospace engineering, Confederation College needed a robust, multi-purpose space to use as their main lecture theatre. To fulfill this, they enlisted the help of Evolution AV to design and build audio visual systems for the Dibaajimogamig Lecture Theatre.
When building and deploying meeting rooms, we often turn to Poly as one of our trusted partners. Formerly known as Polycom, they’ve been producing collaboration solutions since 1990, including a rather impressive lineup of video bars, cameras, and microphones. Their naming convention, however, leaves a lot to be desired. Here is our breakdown of the Poly Studio lineup of video conferencing devices (and how we use them).
Originally built in 1951, Fort Williams Garden was due for a modernization—and got one, with a brilliant LED marquee sign and other digital signage in the arena.
One of the biggest changes in education over the last 20 years has been in how science, technology, engineering and mathematics has been taught in primary schools. In the past, STEM subjects were often taught in isolation. Now, educators aim to show students how these subjects are interconnected and applicable to real-world problem-solving with an engaging, hands-on learning environment.
This week, we're taking a look at Crestron's Virtual Control platform: a software-based control solution that can scale up quickly with zero friction, and that makes device management and system redundancy simple.
We’re taking a look at some new developments in the boardroom video conferencing world—Microsoft’s new Teams Signature Experience—and what this new room concept means for the future of boardroom video conferencing.
Nowadays, large format (bigger than a single TV) displays come in many different formats. Here at Evolution, we often get questions about the difference between the two main types of large format display: LED walls and LCD walls.
With numerous meetings, hearings, and collaborations taking place regularly with participants around the province, BCFSA sought to enhance their communication and collaboration capabilities by adopting the latest advancements in audiovisual technology.
Zoom Rooms are Zoom’s shared space video conferencing solution. Using dedicated hardware for video conferencing users can invite a “room” to a meeting, instead of individual users. Zoom Room Certified Hardware is designed to be used for video calls with multiple people, providing some of the experience of an in-person meeting with the convienience of hybrid meetings, for those that can’t be in the room.
In their new location, Calgary Farmers Market wanted to include an events space, usable for both conference and networking events. We worked with Calgary Farmers Market to design and build a fully integrated AV system providing presentation, video conferencing and signage capabilities in the mezzanine and throughout the market.
Panasonic have sent over their latest entry in the projection technology world that provides a 4K image—and also packs a few nifty tricks up its sleeve.
Located in the heart of Edmonton’s River Valley, the Royal Glenora Club is a premiere fitness, wellness, and social facility. With the entire facility undergoing renovations in 2020, the Royal Glenora Club worked with Evolution AV to modernize their AV systems throughout the gym and recreation spaces, restaurant and café, and banquet halls.
Our partners at Neat have taken their framing and noise cancelling technology from their boardroom systems and packed it into a personal sized device for the modern office: the Neat Frame.
Jabra has made a name for themselves throughout the years with some fantastic headsets and speakerphones, and they’ve taken that experience and put it into their entrant in the video bar market: the Jabra Panacast 50.
Our friends at Bose have been hard at work, and have come up with a speaker that provides the audio coverage of a conventional PA speaker with the low profile of a ceiling speaker—the Bose EdgeMax EM90 and EM180.
Featuring WiFi 6 connectivity and an all new bring-your-own-device mode, the WPP30 takes Yealink’s A20 and A30 video bars and adds a massive amount of functionality—and a whole new way to meet.
This week on Tech Tuesdays, we’re doing something a little different. We’re taking a look back at some of the most impressively designed spaces that we’ve had the pleasure of working on.
For their hometown flagship store, EQ3 wanted to create an immersive retail experience to let their designs shine. We worked with EQ3 to design and install AV systems that add to the showroom’s atmosphere while blending in with their design features.
The Manitoba Metis Federation delivers programs and services to its members in many different sectors across Manitoba. To keep their citizens informed and engaged across the province, the Metis Federation required an effective hybrid meeting system for their Winnipeg headquarters.
With an interior design style that bridges the gap between urban landscape and the urban forest, BLVD Beltline required AV solutions for their amenities that make it easy for residents to set the vibe, whether it be music through the party room, or movies and TV on the stunning outdoor video wall.
Paging all schools: the next generation of intercom is here to see you! Today on Tech Tuesday, we’re taking a look at the TOAlert Communication System—an all-in-one intercom, bell scheduling, and digital signage system.
Work hard, play hard” is often the mantra of many startups, and this one is no different. Located in downtown Winnipeg, we designed and built a solution which allows the space—The Hub—to function as a lunchroom, lounge, meeting space and more.