AV Consultant: Acentech, Cambridge, Mass.
Credit: Temple Creative Services
Alter Hall is a model for the power of streaming video. Every lecture conducted in the seven-story building is streamed using Sonic Foundry Mediasite hardware and software. The auditorium, with its custom-built contoured screen, AMX control, LED lighting, and wireless connectivity, can narrowcast events throughout the facility. All classrooms are equipped with dual projection screens, a touch-panel monitor for electronic notation, Vaddio PTZ cameras for video capture, ambient ceiling mics, and podiums that adjust to the height of the instructor. Elsewhere, there's an awesome, 177-foot-wide, eight-color LED stock ticker.
The Equipment
Following is a partial list if the manufacturers whose products were used in this 2009 PRO AV Spotlight Award-winning project.
AMX
Chief Manufacturing
ClearOne
Clock Audio
Crown
Da-Lite
Denon
Extron
JBL
Middle Atlantic
Marshall Electronics
Panasonic
Polycom
QSC
Revolabs
Samsung
Sennheiser
Shure
Sonic Foundry
SurgeX
TOA
Vaddio
Yamaha