How to Use Video Walls for Engagement, Communication, and Collaboration
Video Walls Offer a Canvas for New Applications
With the CES show just concluded in Las Vegas, it likely was hard to miss a video wall. All over the LV Convention Center, the Sands, and many of the Strip’s hotels, video walls prominently promoted company exhibits and brought a message to life. CES notwithstanding, video walls are also nothing new on the Las Vegas Strip.
But video walls are not just for showy applications. With major technology advances – and cost reduction – in flat-panel technologies like LED, high resolution and color vibrancy, and interactive touch capabilities, video walls are cost-effective tools to increase engagement, collaboration, communication, and productivity. Read on below for three exciting ways to use video walls in your organization.
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Video Conferencing and Collaboration
While remote work and collaboration has been a growing trend, the pandemic brought it to the forefront. And while many companies aren’t fully back in offices, it doesn’t mean the office is dead. One outcome of the remote work revolution is a further decrease in business travel. In offices, that means that more collaboration will be done with remote groups, both inside and outside the company. In conference rooms, video walls composed of multiple flat panel screens will allow for better participation and viewing of all parties and easier sharing of numerous sources of information. Think of interactive shared whiteboard applications, live video, presentation materials, and more all on the screen simultaneously for more productive meetings.
Retail and Restaurants
Video walls in consumer environments can help create engagement and better shopping and entertainment experiences. Digital signage in retail can feature up-to-the-minute promotions, new products, the latest styles, and more to direct the consumer into and through the store. Using animation, video, and audio can create memorable and powerful impressions far beyond static signage.
In restaurants, video walls can inform and entertain. Digital displays can feature menu items and promotions, happy hours, membership programs, and more. In the bar area, video walls can provide entertainment with sports and other programming. A video wall can be the difference a patron chooses a particular restaurant for game days and big sporting events.
Building Lobbies
Building lobbies are high-traffic common areas that present excellent opportunities to communicate and inform. While guests wait, a multimedia video wall can present an organization’s mission, history, and accomplishments. In a multi-tenant building, an interactive video wall can assist visitors with locating their destination on a directory, viewing a map, and even checking in with the office. For aesthetics, other video walls can feature rotating digital artwork in a lobby. In lobby waiting areas, newsfeeds and stock market information can keep people informed while they wait for an appointment.
Fusion Home Systems and Planar
Fusion Home Systems works with the best companies in home and commercial technology solutions. For video walls, we work with Planar, a world leader in LED video wall solutions for over three decades. Planar’s solutions are found in boardrooms, retail, airports, hospitals, control rooms, museums, sports venues, and many other applications. If you've seen screens with information in one of these locations, chances are it was a Planar video wall.
Want to learn more about video wall applications for your Las Vegas business or organization? To learn more, reach out to our team today; we look forward to working with you!
