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MT Canvus enriches communication processes across organizations to bring workforce projects and timelines to life

Orlando, FL – June 16, 2015 – MultiTaction™, the global leader in interactive touch display technologies, today announced the launch of MT Canvus, a new application developed to help organizations visualize big data sources, improve collaboration, socialize ideas and educate employees and clients. Supported by MultiTaction’s iWall, MT Canvus enables companies to embrace smart devices by sharing content onto the interactive walls and bringing project timelines and team creativity to life. MT Canvus is designed to improve productivity and accelerate business processes as employees can work together with co-located teams and clients to develop and circulate new ideas.

MT Canvus will be supported on MultiTaction’s iWalls made up of 55” MultiTaction Ultra Thin Bezel (UTB) displays including all custom implementations as well as turnkey packages such as the three-display meeting room solution, the six-display board room solution, and the 12-display MultiTaction iWall. It can also be optimized for other configurations of interactive display solutions of up to 24 displays. Corporations can utilize MT Canvus to build large workspaces that contain documents, images, notes, annotation, videos, live video feeds and websites. MT Canvus can also bring together content from multiple existing sources at the same time – whether it’s file shares, web-based services or enterprise clouds – so users can easily save and access content created on the display at any time.
user experience and real-life objects is a new revelation in the methods used to deliver corporate information and accelerate business processes.

When paired with the MultiTaction iWall, the MT Canvus allows active collaboration and improved productivity among an unlimited number of concurrent users. Users can also experience ultra-fast responsiveness, and IR pen and object recognition. Additionally, with MultiTaction Codice® technology (2D barcode recognition) in place, MT Canvus users can receive their own unique Codice ID to store and access content at any time.

“MT Canvus is a solution that supports today’s workforce which embraces the growing bring your own device (BYOD) trend and allows organizations to streamline business timelines in a highly-visual, engaging way,” said Jonathan Priestley, vice president of marketing for MultiTaction. “MT Canvus allows employees and clients to work on content at the same time from ideation to final product. It expedites decision-making and will have a significant impact on numerous industries.”

At InfoComm 2015, taking place June 17-19 in Orlando, MultiTaction will be launching its new company brand, and showcasing MT Canvus and the 12-display Curved MultiTaction iWall at booth #4647.

For further information, please visit MultiTaction’s website, YouTube page and LinkedIn.

About MultiTaction
MultiTaction is a leading developer of interactive display systems, based on proprietary software and hardware designs. The company is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, with U.S. offices in Silicon Valley, New York City and Chicago, and an office in Singapore. MultiTaction systems are currently in use in more than 50 countries around the globe. For more information, please visit www.multitaction.com.

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The Interprofessional Experiential Center for Enduring Learning (iEXCEL) is a bold, visionary initiative at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) designed to transform health care education

Through iEXCEL, learners acquire knowledge, and experience hands-on training in a wide range of realistic but simulated healthcare environments. Using a wide range of simulation technologies they can practise and become proficient in procedural and professional skills before encountering real-life patient care situations.

Opening early in 2018, a new five-level, 192,000 sq ft building, the Davis Global Center, will become home to iEXCEL.

AVI-SPL was selected as the technology integrator for the project. In the world of health care education, AVI-SPL is a leader in installing emerging simulation technologies from advanced human patient simulators and task trainers, to augmented, virtual and immersive reality, as well as the MultiTaction iWall.

We spoke with Bill Schmidt, AVI-SPL Sales Director and Visualization Advocate, and Dr. Pamela Boyers, Associate Vice Chancellor for Clinical Simulation, iEXCEL.

The challenge

The way healthcare education is currently delivered has remained largely unchanged for over a century. Most health care facilities around the U.S. still take a predominantly didactic approach with students learning in traditional classroom settings. This involves listening to lectures, taking notes, and studying for the exam. This is not how the millennials generation prefers to learn and there is growing realization that the traditional approach does not sufficiently prepare students to function at a high level in busy and stressful healthcare environments immediately upon graduation.

While the overall mission of iEXCEL has everything to do with enhancing the outcomes of training and patient care, an important aspect of the vision is to provide digital learning experiences that encourage

students to interact, engage in critical thinking and be guided through competency based learning experiences.

“We are changing the paradigm of how we teach,” says Boyers, “When providing care it is necessary to be very active and engaged with patients and their families. Beyond conducting procedural skills, you must have excellent critical thinking and communication skills and work well in teams. It is very hard to learn this range of skills from books, lectures and PowerPoints.”

WE WANT TO PROVIDE HIGHLY ENGAGING LEARNING EXPERIENCES THAT BETTER SUIT THE WAY THE LEARNERS OF TODAY ABSORB AND APPLY INFORMATION.

The MultiTaction iWall Helps Improve Outcomes

The MultiTaction iWall is very intuitive and a great first introduction to visualization and interacting with images. It literally gets students out of their seats and working together on projects.

The iWall is used to create a very realistic, hands-on, interactive, scenarios for students to learn and practise. It offers more than learning the “how-to” of a procedure. Up at the iWall, students learn how to relate and think through problems, and practise the critical thinking skills they will need under fire.

MULTITACTION IS AN IMPORTANT STEP IN THE JOURNEY INTO ADOPTING VISUALIZATION AND VIRTUAL REALITY.

While it is certainly important to understand theory, the iWall allows learners to put the theory into practice.

“Now we are in a position where virtually anything that can happen to a patient in the healthcare system can be realistically and accurately simulated.” Schmidt reports. Healthcare providers do not feel comfortable working for the first time on a real patient. They want to feel competent as well as develop confidence by using simulation before working in the real world of medicine.

Download the full case study to see how UNMC’s iEXCEL makes Nebraska the hub of some of the most revolutionary thinking in the world of medical education. Their mission to accelerate the adoption of modeling and simulation technology will reshape the way in which medical education is delivered.

You can download the full case study below

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Modeling and Simulation Technologies are Reshaping Health Care Education

In the world of health care education, AVI-SPL is a leader in installing emerging simulation technologies, from advanced human patient simulators and task trainers, to augmented, virtual and immersive reality, as well as the MultiTaction iWall.

AVI-SPL specializes in designing health care education environments where learners acquire knowledge, and experience hands-on training in a wide range of realistic but simulated healthcare environments. Under this paradigm, students practise using a wide range of simulation technologies until they become proficient in procedural and professional skills before encountering real-life patient care situations.

AVI-SPL’s mission to accelerate the adoption of modeling and simulation technology will reshape the way in which medical education is delivered.

The iWall is used to create a very realistic, hands-on, interactive, scenarios for students to learn and practise. It offers more than learning the “how-to” of a procedure. Up at the iWall, students learn how to relate and think through problems, and practise the critical thinking skills they will need under fire.

We spoke with Bill Schmidt, AVI-SPL Sales Director and Visualization Advocate.

The iWall is a Powerful Tool for Remote Learning

The MultiTaction solution has low bandwidth requirements with ultra-low latency, even replicating high-resolution video in perfect synchronisation with no loss of image quality. This makes the iWall a powerful tool for collaboration and remote learning.

AVI-SPL and MultiTaction recently partnered at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, (UNMC), iEXCEL center. Within the state of Nebraska, there are many rural and underserved communities, and iEXCEL desires to serve these remote communities and offer the same standard of training and technology across the state.

UNMC satellite campuses cannot count on a lot of bandwidth being available on demand, because the ISP providers in some areas of Nebraska are not always robust. This meant that AVI-SPL had to find a low bandwidth solution for collaborating across distance.

“The MultiTaction iWall is the ideal solution when bandwidth is a concern,” says Schmidt.

The first remote learning project is complete with the installation of an iWall 450 miles West of Omaha, in Scottsbluff. Nurses and Dental Hygienists at the Scottsbluff satellite campus can now connect in real time with Omaha via the iWall collaboration software, MT Canvus and Connect

There is a server at each iWall location, and a third server to run Canvus Connect. Schmidt explains, “The bandwidth required for one iWall running Canvus to talk to a second iWall running Canvus is very low, yet it provides a great deal of functionality.”

iEXCEL plans for iWalls at several other sites in the State of Nebraska, with upcoming installations planned for Lincoln, and then Kearney. “With this network of iWalls, the students and faculty will be able to collaborate easily and in real-time across distance,” says Schmidt.

THE MULTITACTION SOLUTION HAS LOW BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENTS WITH ULTRA-LOW LATENCY, EVEN REPLICATING HIGH RESOLUTION VIDEO IN PERFECT SYNCHRONISATION WITH NO LOSS OF IMAGE QUALITY.

MultiTaction solutions enable higher education institutions to change the paradigm of how they teach. The iWall creates an interactive classroom experience that better suits the way that learners of today absorb information. For health care education, the iWall provides a safe environment where students

can learn without fear of harming a patient, and practise until they are ready to take excellent care of a patient.

Download the full case study to learn how the unique relationship between MultiTaction and AVI-SPL will transform health care education, as the iWall’s advanced visualization solutions enhance outcomes and lowers costs.

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InFocus and MultiTaction Extend Strategic Relationship to Include Global Sales and Systems Integration

InFocus will sell MultiTaction hardware and software worldwide, with immediate availability in Germany through its Vidco subsidiary, followed by sales through InFocus authorized channels in other countries.

Amsterdam, NL – Integrated Systems Europe – Feb 6, 2018 — InFocus Corporation (www.infocus.com), a leading provider of display solutions for collaboration and learning, today announces an agreement to sell MultiTaction hardware and software worldwide. The MultiTaction products are available immediately in Germany through InFocus subsidiary, Vidco, with availability through InFocus resellers in other countries in coming weeks. Award-winning InFocus products such as the ConX Cloud video meeting service and ConX Exec video conferencing software will be offered as options on the MultiTaction platform sold by InFocus. The enhanced partnership follows the August 2017 announcement that MultiTaction would offer touchscreen displays from InFocus for its Canvus and Canvus Connect solutions to enable single, large-screen, hardware, and software solutions for visual collaboration.

The InFocus Executive Briefing Center and Training Academy in Frankfurt, Germany, will be updated with this solution in Q1 2018 to provide hands-on demonstrations and technical training to European partners.

MultiTaction, a leading provider of advanced data visualization and collaboration solutions, creates and distributes multi-touch displays and software that enable customers to visualize and manipulate massive amounts of information on a single display surface, from laptops to giant video walls.

“InFocus customers are always at the leading edge of presentation and collaboration technology — from education to public utilities, global manufacturing, healthcare, life sciences, engineering and construction, military and law enforcement,” said Mark Housley, InFocus CEO. “We are now able to offer MultiTaction solutions, running InFocus solutions like ConX Cloud and Canvas on this advanced collaboration platform. The combination is unbeatable.”

“The MultiTaction and InFocus partnership has delivered industry-leading solutions that are available nowhere else,” said Pete Malcolm, MultiTaction CEO. “The expansion of this unique combination allows us to deliver the best solutions to some of the world’s most demanding and exceptional public and private institutions. Our partnership ensures that next-generation collaboration solutions will deliver even more value to our mutual customers.”

MultiTaction products will be on display in the InFocus booth at Integrated Systems Europe, booth #2-B60, from February 6 to 9, 2018.

MultiTaction’s MT Canvus, MT Canvus Connect, and MT Showcase software, as well as MT Cell multi-touch displays, are available in Germany exclusively from InFocus subsidiary, Vidco. In the coming months, InFocus will make the MultiTaction products available in other countries through InFocus authorized resellers. Vidco provides complete end-to-end design and integration services to deploy and manage collaboration meeting rooms and executive centers.

For more information about InFocus products or to be connected with an InFocus reseller, please visit www.infocus.com .

About InFocus Corp.
InFocus makes connecting people and ideas easy, reliable and affordable. The industry leader for more than 30 years, InFocus creates innovative collaboration solutions that support visual teamwork. Its award-winning, integrated services, hardware and software products are employed and trusted by thousands of the most successful businesses, public agencies, and schools around the world. With solutions for conference rooms, huddle rooms, office desktops, control rooms, classrooms, large venues, and people on the move, there is an InFocus product and service for every application. Learn more at www.InFocus.com. Visit the InFocus store at InFocus.com/store. Follow InFocus on social media at http://facebook.com/InFocusCorp, linkedin.com/company/InFocus or http://twitter.com/InFocusCorp.

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About MultiTaction

MultiTaction is a leading developer of advanced visualization and collaboration solutions, used by some of the world’s largest corporates, museums, educational establishments and entertainment companies. With solutions deployed in over 50 countries and offices across the United States, Asia and Europe, MultiTaction is a global business celebrating 11 years of growth and success in 2018. www.multitaction.com.

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Join us for the Grand Opening of our Chicago Showroom

Dates: Feb 20, 21 and 22

Times: 10am – 2pm and 4pm – 7pm daily

MultiTaction invites you to join us in Chicago for the Grand Opening of our Showroom.

Location:

MultiTaction Americas

1450 Arthur Ave, Suite A

Elk Grove Village, IL 60007

MultiTaction will be demonstrating the world’s most immersive and interactive LDC video walls, and RPV is coming to present their brand new CTS class called the “Art of Displays: Creative Visual Structures from Concept to Reality.”

The class will be presented at 10am each day, and will showcase the latest in AV marketplace trends and emerging display technologies. Each session is limited to 12 attendees, so be sure to book your spot here – https://rpvseminar.youcanbook.me/ Certificates will be issued for 0.5 CTS credits.

We’ll have refreshments and light appetizers all day with Social Hour 5 – 7pm daily

Come and discover the only truly intelligent touch displays to offer:

• Object Recognition, IR Pen and 2D Code Support
• Unlimited Multi-touch surfaces
• Near real-time global collaboration
• Highly customizable configurations that can scale to any size or orientation
• The only touch technology capable of a curved solution

MultiTaction solutions on display will include:

• 4×3 Landscape iWall
• MT Interactive Table
• 4×1 Portrait Meeting Room Pack
• 84” Microsoft Surface Hub

MT Showcase and MT Canvus / Canvus Connect Software

Robert Christopher Cell: (847) 921- 0546

Email: robert.christopher@multitaction.com

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Alexandra Bieschke Cell: (847) 212- 0185

Office: (847) 258 – 5249

Email: alexandra.bieschke@multitaction.com

Brandy Alvarado Cell: (714) 991-6400

Email: Brandy@rpvisuals.com  www.rpvisuals.com

About MultiTaction: MultiTaction designs advanced visualization and collaboration solutions to improve the way the world works. Its award winning 3D optical recognition multi-touch displays, and innovative software suite are used by some of the world’s largest corporations, museums, educational institutions and entertainment companies. With solutions deployed in over 50 countries and offices across the United States, Asia and Europe, MultiTaction is a global business with 10 years of growth and success.

About rp Visual Solutions: From rendering to reality, rp Visual Solutions specializes in the design, engineering, fabrication, testing, and installation of custom mounting solutions for digital signage across a variety of verticals.  rp Visual Solutions offers architecturally integrated mounting solutions requiring engineering excellence and knowledge to deliver the best visual experiences. We’re proud to partner with MultiTaction to offer #CreativeVisualStructures for their interactive video walls.

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By: Tommi Ilmonen, founder, Chief Operating Officer

Honestly, I was not expecting this ISE 2018 award by rAVe. Integrated Systems Europe – ISE – is a huge trade show with tons of video walls, with LEDs, LCD and projectors, across 15 halls. I am proud of our product, but I was not expecting to edge past Samsung, LG or the 50 Chinese LED video wall manufacturers in this category.

What makes MultiTaction different? Why did the two iWalls at our booth with MT555UTB multi-touch displays comprise the “the Best Video Wall System”?

When it comes to raw image quality, you cannot beat the giants: LG, Samsung, Barco, Christie etc. have fantastic products (I do envy some of their technical solutions). This is great, but it is not enough.

Where MultiTaction iWall comes first, is the combination of beautiful interaction and powerful applications with the display technology.

Beautiful interaction

Interaction can be beautiful in many ways. There is different beauty in talking with people, making sketches on paper, walking on sand, touching an oak table. Our job is to make beautiful touch interaction with a giant video wall, a tablet or anything in between.

How does it feel?

For the following exercise you need: A table (preferably wooden), both of your hands, 30 seconds of time, a small object (pen, mouse, lipstick etc.) and mental presence.

This is a slow exercise, do not rush it.

Put two fingertips from your left hand gently on the table. Feel the contact and count slowly to five. Know that you have the world in your fingertips, the table, the earth, the stars, the universe. Move your hand to the left and back and feel the contact with the world. It moves with your touch. Put the remaining three fingers on the table. Spread your fingers out. Pull them back in. The world expands and contracts with your movements. Put the fingertips of your right hand on the table. Move both hands together, in slow waves. Feel the world move with your hands. Take the small object into one hand. Feel its surface, shape, texture. Rotate it with your fingers. Feel the movement of your fingers, of your whole body as you do the minute movements. Feel the universe around you. Enjoy.

When you use our display wall, it is our job to make this magic happen. I know we succeed when people touch the display for the first time, move some object effortlessly, get the surprise from how immediate and powerful it is, and they have the sincerest smile. It did take years of hardware design, computer vision, touch tracking algorithms and UX/graphics programming to make it happen, but it is worth it.

Powerful applications

When you have a job to be done, you start looking for the tool. In our scope, tool is a combination of displays and software running on those displays. Our own displays (the SW runs on most touch displays) are objectively very capable: They can track fingers and objects with great speed and without hitting performance bottle-necks.

Equally (or more) important are the applications running on those displays. At ISE we had two applications, targeted at two very common needs that companies have. The first one is MT Canvus – a multi-tool for meeting rooms. It can be used for presentations, strategic planning, situational awareness, education – anything where a shared digital canvas is needed to create and store knowledge. The second one is MT Showcase which combines a web-based CMS/editor with a multi-touch player application. It is a tool for creating interactive presentations for signage, visitor centers and museums.

MT Canvus

MT Showcase

Both of these applications are powerful. One side of powerful is that they have the bells and whistles that the job requires. Another side is raw performance, being able to handle tens of videos, tons of photos, web browsers and still keep up with our promise of fluent, beautiful interaction at enormous resolutions. Yet another side is that the system gives power to the user, you feel that you have world at your fingertips.

Epilogue

I was planning to write a simple “we won this award” announcement, but it got well out of control. I hope you enjoyed it. See you next time at one of our events, showrooms or a trade show.

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One of the pleasures of working with new technologies is to see them used in different settings, especially for helping humanity. Here is a video from the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), where our MT Canvus and MT Showcase applications are used for finding solutions to some of the most important problems in medicine.

The MultiTaction iWall is used as part of the iEXCEL initiative in the UNMC.

See also

MT Canvus software

MT iWall formats

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MT Showcase 1.8 adds new tools for making more expressive and engaging presentations on any multi-touch display or -video wall. The new features improve operation in some key areas (hotspots, videos, Codice operation) and provide general improvements to the interaction engine. Many of the features also relate to keeping the user experience cleaner, by hiding content which is no longer important.

New features

New PDF navigation controls: PDF viewer user interface has been updated, making the navigation of long documents easier.

Blurring of selected background effects: By blurring the Particles, Sparkles and Champagne effects, you can make the background more discreet, thus focusing the users on the main content.

Default plugin location: With the default plugin location there is less time spent on editing configuration files, saving time during custom plugin development.

General

Loading overlay: Added a loading overlay while loading an app, for a smooth experience when switching apps.

Bouncing teasers: Added option to make floating content and teasers bounce at the edge of the screen, giving a more playful appearance to the teasers.

Keyboard snippets: Added Snippets service for adding preconfigured text snippets to on-screen keyboard. This can be used to speed up presentations where one uses the keyboard for bringing up new content.

Keyboard focus: Added physical keyboard focus slider to on-screen keyboard. This improves the usability and reduces the risk of misplaced keyboard input in a multi-user environment.

Screensaver trigger widget: It is possible to use a screensaver trigger widget for manually activating screensavers.

Screen wipe widget: Added Screen wipe widget that closes all temporary content on screen. This is useful when you want to start your presentation from a scratch, without any old materials on the screen.

Image movie control: Added support for choosing Image movie playback mode.

Lock screen: Added option to lock a screensaver with PIN or Codice. If you need to lock the display during maintenance or other support work, the lock-screen is a useful tool.

Hotspots

Hotspots on images and videos: You can trigger actions, based on hotspots on content. This makes for more dynamic presentations, with more options on where to place hotspots.

Hotspot controls: Added option to close hotspot contents when the hotspot is closed, keeping the workspace cleaner.

Video

Video viewer preview image customization: Set the video viewer preview image, for more fine-grained control of the user experience.

Video stream quality: Added support for configuring video stream quality. This can be used to select the optimal video quality from webcams.

Auto-close videos: Added option to automatically close a video after playing, reducing visual clutter in the workspace. This also helps in not closing the videos while they are playing.

Codice

Codice lift interaction possibilities: Added option to open Codice content when marker is lifted instead of placed.

Codice menu navigation: Added support for navigating Finger menu content by rotating Codice. When using codices with a table, this makes menus faster and easier to operate.

Browser

Browser session sharing: Added support for sharing web browser sessions between browsers widgets. This makes it easier to use sites that require login or state sharing.

Mouse emulation: Added mouse emulation mode for browser, for testing and development purposes and for using web sites that do not support touch interaction.

Menus

Close menu content: Added option to close menu content when menu is closed.

Close previous menu content: There is a new option to close previous menu content when tapping a menu node.

More

For more information, visit MT Showcase product page.

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We have created a series of tutorials for MT Canvus and MT Showcase. These are a great resource for learning to use these applications or see some of the features in action.

There are more tutorials coming up. Subscribe to our Youtube channel to keep updated when the new videos appear.

MT Showcase

These tutorials explain how to create new content sets, menu structures and themes to display your rich media content with MT Showcase. They especially geared towards the use cases where you need to create and update contents quickly for a customer visitor center, museum, or a trade show.

To learn MT Showcase, have a look that the MT Showcase YouTube video tutorial series.

MT Canvus

These tutorials show different ways to use MT Canvus for your meetings. The videos include tips for different use cases like big data visualization, brainstorming, design work etc.

To learn MT Canvus, have a look that the MT Canvus YouTube video tutorial series.

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Introduction

When you are building a touch videowall or table, there are a lot of options out there. Some of these look almost identical (because they are), while some stand out in one way or another. A badly designed touchwall is tedious to use and probably won’t satisfy the original objectives.

When you are planning to build a touch wall, there are many things to keep in mind. In fact, the list of important parameters is surprisingly long, which is why we made this list.

Not all of these are important for all cases, so the weighting between them will vary, depending on what you need.

Touch

By now, almost all phones have touchscreens, most of them really good. In the touchwalls, there is much more variation in the quality of touch.

For touch, quality translates to various technical parameters and we are ready to pick up the first 4 parameters.

1. Latency. Lower latency makes the interaction more immediate and natural. Note that many technologies do not scale very well – when the size goes up, their performance drops.
2. Frame rate. This sounds similar to latency, but it is different. With a high tracking frame rate, you get smoother interaction, which is a huge benefit.
3. Accuracy. If the touch tracking is inaccurate, users cannot hit objects reliably. The last thing you want is people getting frustrated because the touchscreen cannot determine the touch points.
4. Feeling. Front glass with high friction will discourage users from swiping objects in the screen. Different front glass treatments can reduce the friction, making the usage more acceptable. Another important aspect is the temperature of the display. A hot display begs to be not touched.

Some displays (especially IR frames) trade latency for accuracy, so you can get either good accuracy, or low latency, but not both at the same time.

Looks

The image quality of touchscreens varies enormously. Some technologies have a tendency to make the image quality worse. This is true for many projective capacitive displays.

We are ready for the next 4 parameters.

5. Resolution. Touchscreens are meant to be used from arms length. If you invite people to view them the resolution must be high enough to show all relevant details of the content.
6. Contrast. This is a stumbling block for many touchscreens, especially the ones that rely on video projectors or touch foils. With low contrast, even a small amount of ambient light can hide details or colors.
7. Brightness. There just needs to be enough of it. For the brightest indoor installations, 700nits is recommended, but usually 300-400 nits is enough.
8. Seams. The smaller the seams, the better. Seams are especially important if there is a separate audience far from the display, but their significance is smaller for people who actually touch the screens.

Modularity / flexibility

Large walls are always composed of smaller modules. A wall with cheap modules can be very expensive if you cannot mount and unmount them easily, or if maintenance is expensive.

Can you create the shapes that you want from the modules and  how are the modules mounted, maintained and how reliable they are.

The next 6 parameters.

9. Can you make a curved touch wall? Curved walls are very useful, if you need to have a view of the whole wall. Surprisingly many touch systems fail if you want to create a curved wall.
10. Can the modules be put in an angle? This is not for everybody, but with asymmetric/angled installations and the right content one can achieve dramatic effects.
11. Mounting accuracy/sturdiness. Poor mounting can increase seams and make the whole installation look unprofessional. The best displays have well thought-out mounting systems, that make the whole wall smooth.
12. Sturdiness is often overlooked, by people used to non-touch screens. If you push the screen, it should not wobble or vibrate. Still, many mounts exhibit this kind of weakness.
13. Power and temperature. When making a large wall, the power consumption and heat generation can be an unpleasant surprise. Make sure that the displays have remote control for power-save mode.
14. Maintenance. Difficult maintenance means more downtime and costs. If the maintenance can be done on-site, this reduces the maintenance burden dramatically.

Cost

Money always makes a difference but cost is not the be all and end all.

15. Value is more important than the cost. If the wall comes with easy-to-use software that users enjoy interacting with, then the touchwall will be in constant use for many years – the value, or return-on-investment case, is considerable.

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Today, MultiTaction, a Leading Provider of Advanced Visualization and Collaboration Solutions, Announces the World’s Best High- Performance Multitouch Display.

This is MT556XNB, the new standard for interactive video walls.

HELSINKI, Sept. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — “I am truly excited to announce this new eXtremely Narrow Bezel (XNB) 55″ display,” said Paul Greenfield, Chairman, MultiTaction. “Our typical customers are now deploying MultiTaction displays, with our collaboration and presentation software, in large iWall configurations that are used for many hours a day. In these customer-facing environments, XNB leads the field with its optically-bonded Corning Gorilla glass and anti-glare treatment. The contrast, especially in high ambient light situations is stunning with better image clarity and brightness. We are using a new generation of LEDs that give much higher efficiency, better color uniformity and minimum brightness fall-off in the edges.”

The MultiTaction XNB display features a 1.9mm bezel, brightness of 700 nits and an anti-glare treatment that reduces friction between the glass and the fingers – which means fingers don’t “stick” to the glass. It is also operating at a lower temperature, which makes it much more comfortable to use over extended periods of time. The ultra-responsive multi touch experience makes the user feel like they are only touching the content not technology. Additionally, XNB’s intelligent multi touch surface can respond to fingers, hands, infrared pens or 2D codes for unique interactivity.

Click here to see our XNB video.

MultiTaction integration partners will also find that the mounting design of the XNB display gives them greater opportunity for the low-noise, low-heat designs that are typically being specified for elaborate Customer Engagement centers – e.g. XNB can be mounted flush against a wall. Also, because of the low power requirements, a greater number of XNBs can be connected to the same power phase. The unlimited multi touch points per display and unlimited stacking provides a solution that AV integrators can scale to any client requirement.

XNB from MultiTaction – A UNIQUE PROPOSITION

XNB features a unique set of capabilities:

MT STACK SYSTEM: A unique framework that allows iWalls to be constructed in all sorts of shapes and sizes based around XNB. Everything from floating cubes to almost completely circular rooms have been delivered.

CLEARSIGHT TOUCH: Unlike most touch technologies, the MultiTaction XNB can see what is touching the display through the glass. This allows for a more immersive experience.

MT CODICE: A 2D barcode that can be read by the XNB display surface. The MultiTaction software can react to the code making it possible to customize the application behaviour or content to an individual or product.

UNLIMITED TOUCH: Truly unlimited usage by hands, Infrared Pens and 2D barcodes.

MT CORNERSTONE: A software development kit that allows partners and clients to build their own customised plug-ins and applications for the MultiTaction XNB based iWalls.

MT SHOWCASE: The perfect software to engage visitors with touchscreens and interactive video walls.

MT CANVUS: A family of software products that help organisations visualise big data, socialise ideas, educate clients and work collaboratively.

Press Release Contact: tommi.ilmonen@multitaction.com
Tel: +1 503 545 6070

About MultiTaction

MultiTaction designs advanced visualization and collaboration solutions to improve the way the world works. Its award winning 3D optical recognition multi-touch displays, and innovative software suite are used by some of the world’s largest corporations, museums, educational institutions and entertainment companies. With solutions deployed in over 50 countries and offices across the United States, Asia and Europe, MultiTaction is a global business celebrating 10 years of growth and success in 2018.

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Today, MultiTaction, a leading provider of advanced visualization and collaboration solutions, announces the appointment of ex-Microsoft Executive as Chief Executive Officer

“I am truly excited to announce the appointment of Ari Rahkonen to the position of CEO at MultiTaction” said Paul Greenfield, Chairman. “Ari has had a phenomenal career with leading technology organizations such as Microsoft and IBM and more recently has been advising local Finnish companies on their growth strategies. He is an ideal person to lead the company into the next stage of its growth and we are fortunate to have him on board. He has also been a board member of our company for nearly a year so he has a good understanding of the opportunities and challenges ahead.”

Ari Rahkonen, BBA, is the former CEO of Microsoft Finland and has been Chairman of the Board of Innofactor from 2015 to 2018, He also has been a startup entrepreneur and a member of management and advisory boards in a number of companies. He served as Vice Chairman of Technology Industries from 2011 to 2014. Prior to working at Microsoft, Mr. Rahkonen worked at IBM for six years, and prior to that he was CEO of Lotus.

“I am quite excited to join Multitaction as the CEO after having been a member of the Board of Directors since December 2017. Today’s executives and innovators need to run their businesses intelligently to win, and one of the biggest challenges they face is the management of highly complex, globally-distributed operations. MultiTaction has truly world-leading technology combining the user experience of wall-to-wall touch screens and flowing data visualizations. It literally takes the man-machine touch interface to the next dimension, the performance and capability of its software solutions are simply extraordinary. Having been deeply involved with collaboration products for decades, I regard MultiTaction’s Canvus solution in particular as a game changer, and I look forward to helping the company on its path to continued success”.

About MultiTaction

Our MT Canvus collaboration software makes it possible for remote users to share, manipulate, draw and input information in real-time wherever they are based. MT Canvus operates on our own advanced touch screens but also works on many other hardware platforms including the Surface Hub from Microsoft. Our customers use MT Canvus to facilitate connected meetings across multiple locations with users interacting directly with advanced touch screens – all with minimum latency.

Our MT Showcase presentation software has been designed specifically to ‘show off’ great content but also to make exploring and discovering that content super easy. Some materials are aimed at clients, some are aimed at employees to educate or guide and some are simply designed to delight. What all of these scenarios have in common, is the need for someone to first discover the material and then engage with it to get the anticipated experience. There are two parts to the solution – the Showcase player and the Showcase Editor. The editor is where the real work takes place as you drag and drop your media content into the presentation structure that you have defined for your showcase.

We also design and build the most responsive touch technology in the industry. Our 55” touch screen ‘MT cells’ can pick up and track an unlimited number of fingers, hands, objects, cards or pens at any one time. Our iWall provides an unparalleled user experience with a unique hardware design means which that we are able to deliver capabilities that cannot be found in other forms of multi touch technology.

Our Headquarters and R&D facility are located in Helsinki, where our Company was founded out of Helsinki University. We have offices in London, Singapore, New York, Chicago and Mountain View supporting over 700 customer installations in over 40 countries.

Learn more at www.multitaction.com

Press Release Contact: Tommi Ilmonen MultiTaction Tel: +358 50 546 9959

tommi.ilmonen@multitaction.com

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The new MultiTaction tech sites are now online and ready for use. There are three sites – apps, hardware & developer – aimed at users with different profiles.

This post outlines the contents of the different sites, and what you can find on each of them.

To access the downloads, manuals etc., you need to create an account (free & easy). Most of the content is available to all signed-in users, with some sections reserved for our special partners.

Applications

apps.multitaction.com is dedicated to our enterprise applications. The focus is on applications that boost business:

• MT Canvus for visual collaboration, analysis, planning and review
• MT Showcase for presentations and reinforcing the brand of your company

The applications site has the latest software downloads, manuals, changelogs etc.

In addition to MT Canvus and MT Showcase, this site also carries utility application MT Launcher and disk images for setting up computers for the MultiTaction applications.

Displays and Touch Video Walls

hardware.multitaction.com contains information on our MultiTaction touch displays and iWall family of touch video walls. If you are looking for CAD drawings, updated firmware or manuals, this is your destination.

A special star of this site is the Touch Video Wall Designer – a powerful tool for creating touch video wall designs, in a matter of minutes. This is a great tool for getting started with interactive video wall planning. Try it out at hardware.multitaction.com/iwall/builder.

Software Development

developer.multitaction.com is aimed at developers, who want to integrate with the MultiTaction applications. This includes SDKs for our products. Do note that we are in the process of upgrading the application SDKs (Showcase, Canvus). As a result part of the material is currently reserved for our special software partners.

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UNB from MultiTaction for the Ultimate Touch Experience

“I am truly excited to announce this new Ultra Narrow Bezel (UNB) 55” display” said Ari Rahkonen, CEO of MultiTaction.

“Our typical customers are deploying MultiTaction displays, with our collaboration and presentation software, in large video wall configurations that are being used for many hours a day. MultiTaction UNB is the newest addition to our MultiTaction product family, specifically designed for cost sensitive applications that need great video wall touch experience. In these customer-facing environments UNB features a tempered 4mm low iron glass with ultra narrow 3.5 mm bezel.”

The MultiTaction UNB display features a Clearsight touch tracking engine, operating at 120 Hz. The ultra-responsive multi touch experience makes the user feel like they are only touching the content, not technology. Additionally, UNB’s intelligent multi-touch surface can respond to fingers, hands, infrared pens or 2D codes for unique interactivity.

It is also operating at a much lower temperature, which makes it more comfortable to use over extended periods of time than the previous MT555UTB.

MultiTaction integration partners will also find that the mounting design of the UNB display gives them great opportunity for the low-noise, low-heat designs that are typically being specified for elaborate Customer Engagement centers, e.g., UNB can be mounted flush against a wall. Because of the low power requirements a greater number of displays can be connected to the same power phase.

The new thermal design with stronger aluminum frame provides better LCD protection and rear accessible panels for service while mounted.

The unlimited multi-touch points per display and unlimited stacking provides a solution that AV integrators can scale to any client requirement.

Read more: www.multitaction.com/product/unb

MultiTaction UNB features a unique set of capabilities:

MT STACK SYSTEM: A unique framework that allows iWalls to be constructed in all sorts of shapes and sizes based around UNB. Everything from floating cubes to almost completely circular rooms have been delivered.

CLEARSIGHT TOUCH: Unlike most touch technologies, the MultiTaction UNB can see what is touching the display through the glass. This allows for a more immersive experience.

MT CODICE: A 2D barcode that can be read by the UNB display surface. The MultiTaction software can react to the code making it possible to customize the application behavior or content to an individual or product.

UNLIMITED TOUCH: Truly unlimited usage by hands, Infrared Pens and 2D barcodes.

MT SHOWCASE: The perfect software to engage visitors with touchscreens and interactive video walls.

MT CANVUS: A family of software products that help organizations visualize big data, socialize ideas, educate clients and work collaboratively.

Press Release Contact: melissa.adamson@multitaction.com

Tel: +1 917.297.9273

About MultiTaction

MultiTaction designs advanced visualization and collaboration solutions to improve the way the world works. Its award-winning 3D optical recognition multi-touch displays, and innovative software suite are used by some of the world’s largest corporations, museums, educational institutions and entertainment companies. With solutions deployed in over 50 countries and offices across the United States, Asia and Europe, MultiTaction is a global business.

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