What does the future hold for us? In professional AV, at least, LANG can provide some exciting answers.
If your ambition is to always stay at the cutting edge, it is essential to be an early adopter of the latest developmentsl: If you want to keep your product range always up-to-date, it’s not enough to first hold the products in your hands when everyone else is already familiar with them.
LED & Displays
Transparent technology is the trend of the hour, not just for LED: The latest MicroLED devices are flexible and bendable, allowing such applications to adapt closely to all types of surfaces and significantly increasing adaptability in various environments – with consistently high transparency and brightness. One such device is presented by the manufacturer AUO: The 17.3-inch display offers a pixel pitch of 0.3 mm and a brightness of 1,000 nits. The sample demonstrates the fascinating possibilities that such technology offers, for example in the field of augmented and mixed reality, and could lead to extraordinary innovations in digital signage in the near future.
Transparency is also evident in areas that are already familiar – but in different ways too: MUXWAVE, for instance, has long been outstanding in the LED sector with seamless and flexible transparency as well as active matrix technology. What’s new here, however, is an unprecedented format of the MUXWAVE poster: While LANG AG was previously only known for posters measuring 1 x 2 metres, these are now also available in 2 x 3 metres, for example. And transparency is often about creative applications. The LUCY is already familiar from the ISE as a horizontal application, but it is also an impressive vertical rental product that attracts lots of attention.
Projection
What’s new in the projector sector?
One of the current projection highlights coming later this year is the I600-4K15 from Barco: This is a state-of-the-art 4K UHD 1-chip digital projector that sets new standards with its remarkable technology. It offers a resolution of 3,840 x 2,400 pixels in 4K, ensuring exceptionally sharp and detailed image reproduction. With a brightness of 12,500 ANSI lumens, this projector delivers brilliant and vivid images, even in well-lit environments. In addition, its advanced technology ensures smoother images and sharper pixels with the lowest latency, making it the ideal choice for applications that require the highest picture quality and responsiveness – such as immersive projections.
Panasonic also has an eye-catcher: The RQ7 is also a 1-chip DLP laser projector with 4K resolution. With a brightness of 7,500 ANSI lumens, it ensures clear and sharp images, while the 0.65-inch DLP chip brings precision and consistency to its image quality.
Artificial intelligence
Just as in every other aspect of life right now, there is no escaping the topic of artificial intelligence in professional video tech. The true potential of AI is still almost unimaginable, and the world has only briefly touched on what is possible with it. In ProAV, you could think about intelligent generation of content and images, for example in immersive projections with a possibility of interactive aspects.
AI doesn’t necessarily have to create a visual result, though: It could also support digital signage by analysing the people in a certain area and adapting specific content depending on this demographic analysis – to show more relevant information at the right times. Artificial intelligence can also be of help in a technical sense during operation: For example, a projector’s cooler or laser diode could be adjusted by AI depending on ambient temperatures, brightness and other factors surrounding the device, ensuring the best image quality and operation in every circumstance.
Those are just some of the many opportunities that AI offers ProAV – with many more to come in the future. The more developed artificial intelligence becomes, the more application possibilities there will be.
Image Processing
Things also remain highly exciting in the field of compositing switchers: The first preview of Encore3 by Barco in Germany offers a fascinating glimpse into what the device will offer – months before the official release in autumn. Encore3 offers ultra-low latency and real-time transmission of live video feeds. The uncompromising content processing with the pixel-perfect Athena Scalers guarantees flawless image quality. The Encore 3 also comes with Barco IO, bringing great SMPTE ST 2110 & IPMX capabilities to the compositing switcher.
Analog Way also offers exciting innovations with the Aquilon CMAX, the multi-screen presentation system that supports 4K, 8K, and 16K resolutions: LINKing now ensures that Livepremiere devices can be linked together for the first time to serve even larger applications. A global share concept not only allows up to 8x 4K signals to be used as global sources, but the multiviewer is also capable of realizing larger screens beyond 160 MPx as a global MVR. Another novelty by Analog Way arriving this year is the new CorePlay Solo Media Player. This single channel 4K player offers high-quality monitoring and is user- friendly and intuitive to operate.
Drones
Drone shows still being a young and fresh branch of the AV tree, it is exciting to see where this sector is going to develope in the future. The technology is becoming more and more accessible and affordable, which ultimately leads to drone shows being a bigger and more present concept in people’s minds. LANG is still supporting this trend by not only offering the necessary hardware for drone shows, but by providing everything else around it: we can help with obtaining the necessary permits and licences, offer experienced pilots and personnel, design the shows and many other aspects.