Tech Tuesday: Acoustic Panels

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.

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Tech Tuesday: Crestron AirMedia

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.

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Tech Tuesday: Yealink A10

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.

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Yealink's Video Conferencing Ecosystem: A10 vs A20 vs A30 (vs A24)

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.

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Project Highlight: Oak Hammock Marsh

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.  

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Project Highlight: Confederation College

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.

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Poly Studio Series Explained: Studio X vs Studio R vs Studio E

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).

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Using 3D Printing For Better STEM Education

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.

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Ultimate Guide to Zoom Rooms

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.  

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Project Highlight: Calgary Farmers Market

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. 

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