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Hello, everyone. It's Maybank holiday. It's sunny. It's Dublin, Ireland. It's time for another episode of the All Things Techie podcast where we have been out at the races.
Justin Dawson:We have been over in London and a lot, lot more. It's all coming up in episode 93 of the All Things Techie podcast.
Speaker 2:Here's the show that loves to talk about gadgets and gizmos from A logic to Yamaha. Cameras to control panels.
Speaker 3:You get
Speaker 2:what I mean. We love talking all things techie. In fact, that's the name of the show. And here is your host, Justin Dawson.
Justin Dawson:Hello again. It's Justin Dawson. It's the All Things Techie podcast, episode 93, and welcome to episode 93 of the All Things Techie podcast. Should you like to get in contact with the program, All the details is on the bottom of your screen. If you are watching us on YouTube, we always recommend you watch the show on YouTube because we talk about things.
Justin Dawson:We show you things, so go over to the YouTube channel. And also if you want to watch this as a visual, or you can look back on all previous 90 2 episodes of the All Things Techie podcast by visiting www.alltheensetech dot a for all things techie. Yes. I am your host, Justin Dawson. Get in contact, at justinordawsononx, formerly known as Twitter.
Justin Dawson:Our show is at AV Tech Junkies. You can find me on YouTube and Instagram as well, justin_or_dawson. Now so many things have been going on. I was over in London only about 3 weeks ago. Now 2 weeks ago?
Justin Dawson:2 weeks ago. The time has gone like that, guys. The to end of term in university, loads of trade shows going on, like learning teaching space management, group, LTSMG, which looks after the higher ed vertical with, delegates coming from the UK, Ireland, Malta, Germany. I'm sure I'm leaving out some people. Scotland as well, that, descended on the Olympic Village.
Justin Dawson:Now the last time I was at the Olympic Village was about 5 years ago, believe it or not. My son, Kieran, was only a year old, and I was over there, and we were at the orbit. Is it called the orbit? The big, viewing tower. That's actually closed off now.
Justin Dawson:But myself and my colleague, Patrick Doyle, were over at LTSMG, and we were even looking at the orbit going, that looks like it's rusting and falling into disrepair. Fortunately, that is closed off. We were staying in the Premier Inn, and flew in with, London City Airport straight in. So easy to get to the Olympic Village area. And 2, great colleges hosting the LTSMG this year and also in West Ham Stadium.
Justin Dawson:Starting off with Marcus Saunders from London, College of Fashion at East Bank. Marcus Saunders was talking about delivering, LCF at East Bank and a great tour that Marcus gave us around the building. Following this, we have collaborative design through architecture with Bruno Marcelino and delivering UCL East, Marshgate with Sheila Egan. Thanks to the LTSMG steering group for recording these and sending them out as live feeds. Just taking a couple of clips of each part here.
Justin Dawson:Starting off with Marcus, and also Marcus shown us around some of, the LTF at Eastbank and his massive video wall. Check this out.
Speaker 4:Okay. So welcome to the Inversion Production Research Technology Institute. They are not the end of here. Right? And it was a research fund from the AHRC.
Speaker 4:That allowed us to build this volume and to build it with the idea that essentially we're, exploring and experimenting in, textile, cloth, cloth simulation, movement, you know, at that intersection between fashion and technology. And I think, you know, one of the things that's very difficult in these spaces, just getting into these spaces. If you think about the way, most of these volumes are constructed with a particular production in mind, and they have, you know, a whole lot of tech business previews that goes into that that designs the volume. This is a pure research space, so you don't have that brief to start with. So you have to try and build something that's going to facilitate that experimentation.
Speaker 4:But again, in an art and design context, that isn't really happening. You can correct me if I'm wrong, David, but people don't get big chunks of time to spend on sound stages with these volumes to just push at that fabric of what's possible in them with creative practice. So housing it here in the University of the Arts means that all of that amazing intersection of disciplines that you've just seen across the building can collide. So we've got prosthetics, hair and makeup. We've got, you know, building a bath department from the School School of Media Communications and here we've got 3 d workshops.
Speaker 4:We can do all of the things that you need to be able to bring to bear all of these disciplines in a space like this this in a way that probably is quite unique. So that was one of the reasons we, we were able to get this bid. In terms of cost, this is a relatively small investment for a volume. You'll see or read about some investments in Belfast or Pinewood for Surrey and Roehampton and, you know, and they're in the kind of 50 to £70,000,000 mark. This is 3 and a half £1,000,000, but we've taken that budget and tried to put the very best in breed of technology we can in the space and work with amazing people like David and the rest of the robotics team.
Speaker 4:We were at the back somewhere.
Speaker 5:Hi, Valti. So we're we're actually in the process at the moment. This isn't finished. Yeah. Obviously, the day is coming in is quickly and I'll pass that into you to kinda get a sense of what's going on.
Speaker 3:So this rep
Speaker 4:up in the, scene there. And this will be essentially representing what the camera will see and relates that back to the game engine and the game engine adjusts the lens distortion position so that then you get a high quality render in the zone that the lens of the camera is pointing at corrected for the perspective of the camera.
Speaker 5:I think
Speaker 4:that's the general.
Speaker 3:Yeah. You wanna say for your record, the way you can see. So outside is the right quality. But it's actually nice to be nice. Yeah.
Speaker 4:So if you think about the rest of this volume, that's the important bit because that's what the camera's seeing. And then the rest is really the world's most expensive light fixture. Okay? Because it's it's a a positionally correct emission of light from the direction it would be coming from if it were real landing on the subject so you get your reflections in a true, directionality within the volume. Hence, calling it a volume.
Speaker 5:That's a volume of light. Volume That's
Speaker 3:a volume of light.
Speaker 4:Volume of light. Yeah. So, I'll hand this out actually if someone anyone wants to have a a quick play with that and get a sense of what's going on with tracking. And if you imagine all the people in here, the occlusion as it's called when you start to vlog, just try hiding it behind someone and see if it still works. And that's because of the number of cameras picking up the position of those emitters.
Speaker 4:So yes, you could be wearing a light pursuit with lots of little bubbles on you and running around the space. So one of the other bits that we're really interested in is we've got the VNA. We've got, so in terms of materiality and the archive that they have, we've got Sadler's Wells and we've got lots of relationships already in place for things like how will this interact with performance. So how does game engine and performance work? What can you do at that intersection?
Speaker 4:So it's a really rich scene for for research. And, you know, it's amazing. It's been a huge, part of my life for the last many years, 5 years. So, my brief today was to kind of wrap it up really and talk about how we got here, how that worked out, the good, the bad, and the ugly. So I have to do this bit just because for those of you who don't know about us already, we're actually all of these institutes and colleges.
Speaker 4:I'll do it really quickly just so we can get through. But this is how we're made up. This is our constitution. This is how LCF is and and what our studentship represents, which is incredibly broad and diverse community of students. And that's also reflected in the staff and in the technicians.
Speaker 4:So we're very lucky to be working in such a a dynamic environment. We've just been reaffirmed as the, number 2 worldwide art and design, institution. That was a couple of weeks ago for the 6th year running with the RCA, another London Institute, the number one, postgraduate university, and we offer undergraduate and postgraduate study. So we have some AV people here, I think. So I thought, you know, we'll we'll cover just that wrap up.
Speaker 4:I'm not gonna go into too much detail. So the the brief we've talked about briefs a bit today. The brief for this building was, how do you deliver and deploy at speed and scale? Because, actually, the window, we were moving 6 buildings from across London, and we had a summer, essentially, to get in. We had to engineer solutions that allowed us to deploy quickly because that's what the project required.
Speaker 4:The number of spaces so we have an in house team, the the wonderful technicians that have been running the event today and that you've seen around the space. We have an in house integration team. That's how I describe it. Very competent team who can install, refurb, and design systems. We partnered with Kindly, as part of this because, obviously, at around 215 locations in, you know, 4 months.
Speaker 4:That's that's too big for a team that's in house. So that's why we we went that route. But the design was very much ours. Everything that you've seen today is the same. It isn't different at all.
Speaker 4:So any of these spaces, I think some of you have been in that space. Probably not that one. That's a standard lecture seminar room and a small tutorial room. You know, they're all the same. It's one system.
Speaker 4:For the heart spaces, as they're called, and you've seen these systems. It's the same system. It's the same. The spires, same system. Acoustics through the heart space have been very carefully considered.
Speaker 4:They've been very carefully considered in here. And that, again, is about attention to detail. We've modeled the acoustics based on pedagogic principles. I think that shows as you walk around the building. So somebody earlier asked me, what's inside it?
Speaker 4:Right? So so that's what's inside it. Virtually nothing. It covers the, the outlets, so you have the cable way to go to the screen and then the ports, and that's it. And that chassis is removable.
Speaker 4:It's tallest. You can pick it up, take it out, swap it out in 2 minutes. And if you're wondering what the white box is on the left hand side, that's the Bluetooth check-in beacon for attendance monitoring, also hidden inside that box. You've been in the virtual production lab today. I'm not gonna talk much about this because, we have David Gray who will be speaking in a short while.
Speaker 4:But this is this was the kind of brief behind it. That's what we got funded to do. I'm not gonna read it, but it's it's a very, very exciting space. And this lens that we've been talking about of fashion, and that collision with technologies like virtual production is just such an exciting time for us here. David actually helped us do all of the initial assessment around panels that we looked at.
Speaker 4:We looked at a number of panels. We did some testing, both with from a color science perspective, but also with cameras. What we ended up doing was selecting a manufacturer, a manufacturer's panel that was, a, not quite available, and, b, jumped forward quite a leap in terms of what was possible. So we appointed Sony through really critical analysis. And I would urge you, any of you who are planning to do these spaces, build these spaces, build volumes, build XR stages, Don't take anyone's word for it.
Speaker 4:Don't think because someone else built something somewhere, like me building something with a Sony panel here, that you should do the same. Do the color science. Do the testing. Get the camera test running and make your own decision because it will be different for you than it will be for me. And it's really important that you you take that rigor to the process.
Speaker 4:It's really hard to do. That's it for me. Thank you for listening, and thank you for coming today. And thank you to all of the technicians that make all of this possible in this building every day of the week.
Justin Dawson:And then about collaborative designs to architecture. Bruno, talking about how they built this campus. Like, it's it's just fascinating walking around both campuses, around the Olympic Village that, like, were only built in the past 2, 3 years, the size of the campus. And what I really loved was, like, they really don't have lecture theaters. This goes back to what, Jo Wei and myself have talked about that, you know, is there a need for lecture theaters anymore?
Justin Dawson:Answers on a postcard, please send them in to, the All Things Techie podcast. The details are at the bottom of the screen. Have a listen to Bruno and what he had to say.
Speaker 6:So roughly speaking, the building is 42,000 square meters gross. It should have around 3,500 people every day, and it's 70 meters above podium. Part of a family, like Gavin mentioned, which is the new cultural quarter. So what you can see in the image is these four buildings, which so can I point to this? You can see the the 4 buildings and its relationship, both with the park and with the the North Stratford.
Speaker 6:So in this image, it's an elevation, and it's interesting to see how the the the the site is actually really constrained. So what you have here is a plot that goes from this point, roughly to the aquatic center, and it needed to allow for enough space for the 4 institutions. And the footprint of Salazar's Wells is dictated by the venues, so the big room. BBC needs a footprint to accommodate the recording studios, and V and A requires a footprint that accommodates the exhibition spaces. So we were left with the kind of the the the space in between, which gave us a footprint of roughly 60 meters by 60 meters.
Speaker 6:So you can see here, in a way, if you slice the building horizontally, you can see the hard space clearly defined in the middle, and then what we call generically the workshops. But they include seminars, they include workshops, they include also offices. So all the ring of rooms around the heart. Then one of the most, challenging things was to achieve was to provide the college with ultimate flexibility in the spaces. And in order to give them that, we considered that the heart itself is structural.
Speaker 6:So we have a the heart is defined basically by columns, And then the other, the other most important component of the superstructure is the facade itself. So all the building needs to be held up is the heart and the facade. That means that all the teaching spaces are columnless, which also means that you can reconfigure these partitions in any mold in any sort of way, which gives you a a high degree of flexibility for the future of the building.
Justin Dawson:Sheila Egan also gave a great talk about delivering UCL East. Have a listen to this.
Speaker 7:So, yeah. One of the key things about the UCL East Campus is that we, the idea of it is that you'll be getting different courses together, and they're gonna kind of create courses for the future courses for now. We only had about, I think, 5 courses actually move over from Bloomsbury. Other than that, it was all new courses, and the whole kind of ethos of the building is as you go through, there's different collaboration spaces, different departments, engineering, architecture, things like that will get together and kind of create new courses. But it's quite a different approach as a Russell Group University.
Speaker 7:So a big key thing was the kind of shared facilities. I'm gonna talk about the wet lab and the dry lab, but that was a really key thing. It's very new for UCL to have shared facilities. Usually, the different faculties don't share. So I've just put up this slide.
Speaker 7:It's a very high level slide, but it it just shows what our kind of delivery process is. So I was lucky. When I joined UCL, we actually already had a team of designers. So our kind of process is I now insist that we meet with end users, at the start, end users, main building occupiers. Sometimes it's quite difficult to get to the end users, but I'll try and be quite tenacious about the whole thing.
Speaker 7:And then I'll write up a high level AV narrative to ensure that I know that what we're kind of trying to achieve with the AV systems. We then hopefully get CAD designs for the building and rooms we're working on. Definitely plans, RCPs if we're lucky. We might be able to get ceiling heights if we're really lucky, and occasionally elevations if our luck's truly in. So we use these to try and inform our AVM and E designs, because one of the things I think is really key, people talk about future proofing a lot, and I actually think if you've got network in the right places, if you've got floor boxes in the right places, you can pretty much do anything after that.
Speaker 7:If you don't have any of that, particularly, UCLA East is all poured concrete walls, so we had to get all the containment into the walls and stuff really, really early. I kind of now judge the success of my projects by how many times I had to resend a AV narrative. I only have 3 on the 2 buildings. So I I kinda think that's that's quite good. And just some sort of high level tips as well that we think about.
Speaker 7:We're really used to looking at plans. We get RCPs. We get innovations. We have an idea of how big the windows are, how tall the ceiling is. Our end users don't.
Speaker 7:They've got no idea. It doesn't mean anything to them. So I think approaching people with, empathy, trying to help them on that journey can be really, really helpful. If you think it's a you've got a similar space elsewhere, take them to it. Let them walk around.
Speaker 7:Let them think about where everything is, because I think sometimes that's where people come up with impractical solutions. They don't understand that they're impractical. But when they actually kind of walk around the space, they realise it. I think as well, be aware of the bigger picture at your institution. If there's stuff that's gonna change in the next couple of years, build in a bit of flexibility.
Speaker 7:If your institution's thinking about using going from a team room teams room to Zoom rooms, you know, buy something that can you can change the firmware. And do that because people get really cross if you wasted their money. We have a lot of departmental spends at UCL. People get really cross if it then doesn't work a couple of years later. And then it's your problem or Ketan's problem, mostly.
Speaker 7:And just consider what else is in the building. I don't know about you guys, but we, UCL, sometimes does things by floors instead of by building. So sometimes we'll have end users that go into a really old room that's a department space with, like, a push button Crestron from 19, I don't know, 2005, and then they're going into one of our new kind of wizzy spaces. And and the the kind of cognitive load of moving between those two spaces to teach can be quite a lot, so it's worth thinking about the surrounding spaces as well. And again, I've just put it on there again.
Speaker 7:Don't be afraid to say what you can't deliver. If it's not gonna do it, just tell them upfront. They'll be okay with it, or they'll come back to you when they've, you know, decided what they really wanna do with the space. So just moving on to being a bit more building specific and some of the, spaces that we've got. I've got no idea what time we started now, Ketan.
Speaker 7:So, hopefully, I'm with time. So UCLA's Poole Street, we've got over 200 en suite rooms. It was mainly about the residencies. We really need to expand our residencies. 9 bedrooms per flat, tiny bedrooms like this, like a galley, but, they have these really big kind of kitchen dining spaces.
Speaker 7:The kind of shared spaces are really big, really nice. We've got one cinema space, and it is actually a cinema space. It's got, 35 mil analog projectors in it and most of my kits kind of somewhere else. 3 major custom designed lab style spaces, Slade Art Studio, Urban Memory Lab, Nature Smart, and different kind of, Paul Street. So Paul Street opened a year before Marshgate.
Speaker 7:It got quite badly hit as did Marshgate with some of the COVID delays. So we had to kind of change out video switches, DSPs, and that was still sort of suffering the consequences of that. One of the things I learned from Poole Street opening a year earlier would have been, think about the functions that are gonna be available in Marshgate because all the people in Poole Street are still gonna need those functions for the 9 months. So one of the things that I probably would have done was in one of our large classroom spaces, I would have added an extra camera so you could have big meetings. For example, with the biggest meeting room there is about 4 4 to 6 people.
Speaker 7:So, yeah, I would have just thought, oh, okay. Yeah. Think about the wider campus picture. The cinema, as I mentioned, it's a really interesting space. It's huge.
Speaker 7:It's one of the biggest spaces here. We had we had we the cinema was almost designed for 1 end user in our media anthropology department, and there was a lot of negotiation with that. I had to negotiate to get our projector in a projection room, which seems a bit sad. And I think with hindsight, I actually would have argued a little bit better to have more say in the systems that went in because as it turned out, it's being used for events far more than it's ever being used as a cinema. So I would have asked questions like, how many times a year is this really gonna be used as an analog cinema, and how much of the time is actually just gonna be used for teaching?
Speaker 7:Because I think those answers would have been easily 95% teaching and events, 5% cinema. Yeah. I would have thought a bit more. Obviously, it was kind of through that COVID period, but, obviously, the events now, there's a greater request for hybrid. So we've recently added hybrid equipment into the cinema.
Speaker 7:I've got a kind of camera that faces the audience and stuff. So, yeah, I would have pushed for power to all the seats as well because that, I think, was just overlooked for whatever reason. So, yeah, I think with hindsight, I probably would have had some more difficult conversations, but there we go. You live and learn. It's still a fabulous space, and people love using it for events.
Speaker 3:It's Justin Dawson. It's the All Things Techie podcast. Look where we are for LTSNG 2024. We're at West Ham Stadium, where they're cutting the grass, you know, so the exhibition is in here. I sort of snuck out at side door to see the grounds of West Ham United over here.
Speaker 3:Last day of LTSMG, everyone is exhausted. Yeah. That is what happens at conference. I've just been talking to Phil Ward out from Shure, who literally showed me this backdoor. And what's really annoying is Liverpool are playing here tomorrow, and I didn't think of staying an extra night.
Speaker 3:Well, our season's over, guys. Our season's over. Love clocked a bit, but our season's over. So here we are at LTSMG, fantastic event. It has been busy, there's about 30, 40 different booths.
Speaker 3:Nice to be able
Justin Dawson:to talk about AV in
Speaker 3:a higher ed perspective at LTS and V. This whole area since LTS and V 5 years ago has completely and utterly changed. You know, I was here for it and here east, we have been seeing UCL and, and that campus. My God, Marcus, what a campus. The guys at LTSMG, the steering committee have pulled off once again an amazing LTSMG.
Speaker 3:MD. Last night, Turkish dinner and a few beers. I got a hat, you'll see it in the photo. I'm gonna overlay that. And, but here we are.
Speaker 3:So there you go. There's there's West Ham stadium. There's the Hammers. Let's have a quick tour, right? And there's the country beach over there.
Speaker 3:Okay. Better get in. Better get inside and look at tech. Good morning. Hello?
Speaker 3:From from LTSMG. Yes. Live for the All Things Techy podcast. I'm here with Phil. You might know this guy.
Speaker 3:Yes. Yeah.
Speaker 8:I've been around the industry for a few years now.
Speaker 3:Yeah. A little while.
Speaker 8:A little while.
Speaker 3:It's it's 9 AM on the last day about SMG, and we're fresh the daisy, aren't we?
Speaker 8:We are.
Speaker 3:Yes. We are. Yeah. Of course, we are. Kind of.
Speaker 8:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we are live
Speaker 3:on the show stand. Sure stand. Yeah? What? Okay.
Speaker 3:Phil, you have to do your pitch now. You have, like, all of 5 minutes to do your pitch. Go.
Speaker 8:Three things. Yes. We got the 902, which is the integrated ceiling tile microphone array and speaker. We've got the 901, which is the new launched ISC, ceiling tile microphone array Yeah. And the next 2, the 2 channel wireless microphone system with a built in, DSP access point and charger.
Speaker 8:So is there a little bit of stuff?
Speaker 5:Oh oh
Speaker 3:oh, don't forget, the new microphone. Oh, yeah. This right here is the new MX. Nope.
Speaker 8:And the
Justin Dawson:new MP 7 plus? MP 7 plus.
Speaker 8:What's it about us? With its new digital popper stopper. Popper stopper? It's got a little bit
Speaker 9:of Is that
Speaker 3:is that what they call it?
Speaker 8:The popper stopper.
Speaker 3:Popper stopper. Yeah. Don't don't try and say that after a few drinks at LTLMD.
Speaker 8:No. No. No. Don't do that. Don't do that.
Speaker 8:Definitely don't say it last night. Yeah. It's also got the new light system, so the ability to give you, a new color so you could even do you could even do the Irish colors. Yes. It's slightly more Ivory Coast, but you can do it.
Speaker 8:But, yeah, you can do it on there. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah. You did it the wrong way around, didn't you?
Speaker 8:Yes. You did it orange, white, and green. Yes.
Speaker 3:Yes. Yes. He's admitting to that right now. I am. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Justin Dawson:Phil, are
Speaker 3:we going home to Infocom? Are you going to Infocom? Aren't
Speaker 8:you? Sure are going to Infocom.
Speaker 3:They're not allowing you they they're not allowing me out of this.
Speaker 8:I'm the new boy.
Speaker 3:Oh, yes.
Speaker 8:I won't be there, unfortunately.
Speaker 3:Yes. We'll all be there. Well, you're old. Can't we not pay?
Speaker 8:Well, that's a good point. I could ask the question, couldn't I? Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah. I'll go I'll go
Speaker 5:give them a shout. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I'll go see them. Come with me. Watch this space.
Speaker 5:As I
Speaker 3:always Just my normal vision, butt. Looking incredibly fresh of the last day of LTSMT.
Speaker 9:I see. Yeah. Yeah. Got it's nice and better to bed early. Yeah.
Speaker 9:You were well behaved.
Speaker 3:This has been one of the more calmer LTSMD nights last night. Very civilized. Very civilized. We had Turkish meals. Well, I just steal a hat still.
Speaker 3:Oh, did you? I did. Yeah. And then I got stopped.
Justin Dawson:And then I was like,
Speaker 3:oh, come on. I'm an influencer. I'm an influencer. And they stopped me. So I I go on to Fiverr.
Speaker 3:They let me keep that.
Speaker 9:So That's a stop.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 9:Yeah. Yeah. If you could
Speaker 5:take that back home with more merch. Yeah. Yeah. And then I'll start. Do you think I'll get arrested if I wear it in the airport?
Speaker 3:No. No. You'll be fine. Yeah. You'll pass it on a postcard, please.
Speaker 3:Yeah. You'll
Speaker 9:take it off for security, other than that.
Speaker 3:How's Wolf Vision got anything new? Michael, that you want to show?
Speaker 9:We've got lots new.
Speaker 3:Well, I
Speaker 9:mean, it's worth worth seeing as anyone, but we've got the whole The visualizer? Old composer view. So control for the Wait.
Speaker 3:I've never seen this tech before.
Speaker 9:Well, this this is where DCU have been using this for for a long time now. Yeah. But this is the user's interface. We've got the 2 screens, so left screen, right screen, which we can preview for the top. We tap and we can also annotate over the content as well.
Speaker 9:Yeah. And then part of that is the whole active learning side as well. So remote stations which we can live preview, and then we can also send content to other spaces or share to all.
Speaker 5:Do you
Speaker 9:know that way? Then we've also got a sign up video bar.
Speaker 3:So everyone's doing video bar, so you have to go what is different about your video bar to every other video bar?
Speaker 9:So this is it's an all in one bring your own meeting video bar. Right. So the idea is the user brings their own device, connects with an app Yes. Of course. Send your content to the sign up video bar.
Speaker 9:And in return, you'll get the camera back once. Which means you could use Teams, Zoom, Webex, Google Meet, FaceTime, whatever you might like.
Speaker 3:It's it's done a sales pitch in all the 5 minutes. Give this guy a raise. Hello. I wish Sabi. How Sam, how do you still look young and beautiful, And how many months break in the name?
Speaker 10:6. 6? It's the first time I think in AV history that I am sober in the morning.
Speaker 3:Yeah. This this is not normal for Sammy,
Speaker 5:you know?
Speaker 10:Absolutely. No. No.
Speaker 3:No. We've been done so many gigs together and yes, Sami
Speaker 10:is so I look a lot better than Guy.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah. There it is.
Speaker 8:Yeah. Did you steal
Speaker 3:a Turkish hat last night? I didn't know. I did. I did. I I did what I did.
Speaker 3:I got it. I did too. And they they they stopped me, and I said, hey. I'm doing a podcast tomorrow. I need a hat.
Speaker 3:That so that they said, oh, yeah, mister Pollard. Yeah.
Speaker 10:I think you already got a job to put mine back.
Speaker 3:So what have we got new, Sam?
Speaker 10:So the main thing I think everyone's talking about the stars of the show has to be our fantastic e paper. Modeling my photography. Is that your photography? From Dubai. Oh, nice.
Speaker 5:This is
Speaker 10:This is not even
Speaker 5:at all.
Speaker 3:Did you get a free trip to the blind with Sharp just to take some photographs?
Speaker 10:Absolutely not. No.
Speaker 5:No. That
Speaker 10:would be on the cards for next year. Take note, guys.
Speaker 3:That's exactly it. That's exactly
Speaker 10:it. Yeah. So he, paper, which is our powerless display. All of these are running contact with 0 cables. Thank you and kind regards.
Speaker 10:Oh, wow. Which is amazing. So on the back here, if you want to, you can insert a battery or POE injector. You only need power to change content.
Speaker 2:That's cool.
Speaker 10:Nice and perfect. No backlight on it, so don't worry about screen burn. And it works by the comfort of lighting. Just like your Skyrim. And here, we've got a bit of a DIY show me telling, which is how to take on and off LED tiles.
Speaker 10:Bringing maintenance a bit more in house, which is one of the things that universities must
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 10:Manufacturers to look at, actually. So what we've bought with us is our lovely Dyson tool. Obviously, Justin, you can get hands on if you're feeling fresh. Turn this little device on like this. Put it onto the early detail like so.
Speaker 5:Put it
Speaker 10:on the button. And voila.
Speaker 3:That looks pretty good.
Speaker 10:About your child.
Speaker 3:I hope Dyson are sponsoring you for this.
Speaker 5:They should
Speaker 3:be. They should be. They should be.
Speaker 10:Yeah. But, ain't they? Yeah. Nice. Those main features we've got, which have been quite a big hit, actually.
Speaker 10:So it's been a big check.
Speaker 3:Yeah. The the, the hot one the hot one of the show has been the e paper.
Speaker 10:E paper. Yeah.
Speaker 3:The e paper is nice. Very nice. Yes. For more information and to find Sammy online
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Please visit.
Speaker 10:Sharp NEC's website. Yeah. Or email me samantha.views@sharp.eu.
Justin Dawson:So my thanks to all the steering committee, and great to meet everyone at LTSMG 2024 this year. And, from that, moving on, we I was promoting AV Group E, all the time when I was over at LTSMD. And the amount of different boots and that and distributors that and manufacturers that were like, oh, we're coming off to Ireland soon. And it's like, well, tell you about AV Groupy because it seems that everyone was coming over at different times. So AV Groupie has absolutely grown since LTSMG.
Justin Dawson:I'm talking to all the manufacturers over there, that are coming over to Ireland at some point in time. And if you haven't found out about AV Groupie and the network for Irish AV Professionals, please visit avgroup.i u. Here's a bit about AV Groupie.
Speaker 2:Attention all Irish audiovisual professionals. Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Look no further than AV Groupie, Ireland's ultimate online hub for audiovisual networking. Join a vibrant community of AV experts where you can connect, collaborate, and create magic together all from the comfort of your device. Whether you're a lighting wizard, a sound maestro, a visual effects guru, or any AV enthusiast, AV Groupie is the place to be.
Speaker 2:Post your portfolio, exchange ideas, find exciting opportunities, and stay updated with the latest industry trends. The power of networking is just a click away. AV Groupie, the network for Irish AV Professionals. Visit avgroup.ie.
Justin Dawson:And my thanks to the AV Magazine and Clive and Guy Campos for running an article in, The AV Magazine about AV Group b and what we're trying to do. And I shall put that link in the show notes of this program. If you like to get in contact with the All Things Techie podcast, if you're watching us on YouTube, the details are on the bottom of the screen. You can tweet me directly at justinordawson. You can also x or Twitter me at AV Tech Junkies for the show.
Justin Dawson:I'm on YouTube at justin_or_dawson, and also on Instagram, justin_or_dawson. Now, couple of days later, about a week or so later, I went out with AVI SPL to Puncherstown Racecourse for full race day. Have a look at this. So it's just endorsing
Speaker 3:at the All Things Tech Lead Podcast. We're house with AVI at Hunter Town Racecourse where the sun has finally started coming out. It's a
Justin Dawson:full race day. I'm in the Kilmachod Croaks Pavilion behind me, and,
Speaker 3:in front of me is the racetrack. Good.
Justin Dawson:So ABISPL have it right in my eyes for the day, and it is great, sir. I I took up the opportunity because, AB Group B as well will be doing an event with sponsored by the, Xtro Media, I I need to say. Xtro Media sponsoring the event with, with a b groupie. And thanks to Clive and all the guys at a b magazine, they have done a piece for me, talking about AB Groupie, and, sign up at abgroup.com. I am €7.50 up.
Justin Dawson:€7.50 up. I've, put a fiver on each best at the moment. The yes.
Speaker 5:So there
Speaker 3:we go.
Justin Dawson:Again. Tier 1, I messed up. Typically, the first portion that I bet on Tech Talk comes in without a jockey on its back. But you know what? I did I was more successful throughout the day.
Justin Dawson:I did end up being 10 euro up despite putting €20 on a raffle. Didn't win any prizes, unfortunately, in the raffle there, but I also, ended up being 10 Europe and calling it quits being 10 Europe. A great day out with AVI SPL and, all the team there. And thank you so much for come inviting me, and I'm looking forward to you being, with the AV Groupie, network on 17th May, an event sponsored by X2O Media. Thank you for sponsoring that.
Justin Dawson:And not only that, have a look at this. A groundbreaking public art installation known as The Portal is set to form a visual bridge between New York City and Dublin launching next week in May 8th. The portal installation is part of the program of events that will be taking place as part of Dublin's recent designation as European City of Smart Tourism 2024. The official handover will take place, at, on the 8th May, conceived by Lithuanian artist and entrepreneur Benedicus Grillas. The portals are an invitation to meet fellow humans in a way that transcends borders and differences to experience our world as it literally is, united and 1.
Justin Dawson:The live stream of portals provide a window between distant locations, allowing people to meet outside their social circles and cultures. The portal in Dublin will be installed facing the capital's main street, O'Connell Street, and will capture the iconic vista of both the Dublin's famous GPO building and the spire together offering the public a real time visual livestream that connects these two iconic cities. In New York City, the portal will be installed on the Flat Iron Side Public Plaza at Broadway 5th Avenue and 23rd Street next to the famed Flatiron Building and will be presented by the Flatiron Nomad Partnership in collaboration with the New York City Department of Transportation Art Program, NYC dot Art, and the Simons Foundation. The founder shared his perspective on the project's significance. Portals aim to be a bridge to unite unite a planet.
Justin Dawson:I'm grateful to the cities of Dublin and New York for pioneering innovation and welcoming their portal sculptures, which is a significant milestone after the years of work. From this initial two cities of Bynellos, Lithuania, and Lubin, Poland, Portals are now expanding to be a global network. This is just the beginning, and our team will continue to bring portals to large cities and little towns of planet Earth. The portal New York City and Dublin will be in connection from, next week. In addition to the real time connection, there will also be scheduled program including cultural performance at each city's portal that will be enjoyed by people in the other city via the livestream.
Justin Dawson:Programming will be kickoff in mid May, which is next week, with a visual program to celebrate New York Design Week Festival. The portal is made possible through the collaborative efforts of Dublin City Council, the EU Capital of Smart Tourism, Flatiron, Nomad Partnership, Simons Foundation, Dot Art, and the portals.org team, and being put in place and installed by AVI SPL. And I shall be there at the launch next week, on 8th May, which will be episode 94 of the All Things Techie podcast, so stay tuned for that. I also really want to thank anyone that nominated me and actually voted for me in the Rave Reader's Choice Awards for 2024. For some reason, I came back from LTSMG and found out by email, because I wasn't checking my emails and my personal emails that much while I was away at LTSMG, I found out that I have been nominated as a finalist as person of the year in the Rave Readers' Choice Awards.
Justin Dawson:I am absolutely gobsmacked that I am. The, the awards will take place in, the Infocom 2024 in Las Vegas. And, my thanks to everyone that has voted for me. And more details of how you can vote for me is in the show notes of this program. Now, final listeners, here's a clip of me going out to Newgrange, in Ireland where the Office of Public Works, have really done an immersive setting of what Newgrange is all about.
Justin Dawson:It's just 20 minutes away from my house. I haven't been at Newgrange in years, and I really enjoyed this immersive experience. I didn't get into Newgrange because there was that many people booked in today. But even just going around the museum or and seeing what all Newgrange is all about, I really enjoyed this. Just a small little clip.
Justin Dawson:And that is all for this episode of the All Things Techie podcast. My thanks to you for listening in. Thanks to the guys at LTSMG for another great LTSMG 2024. Thanks to AVI SPL for inviting me to the horse racing, event, and I look forward to seeing loads of people, next week, at the launch of Portal in Dublin city centre. And, also, in a couple of weeks' time, we have the first AV Groupie networking event in Dublin City Centre.
Justin Dawson:Really looking forward to that. Until then, take care, and I'll talk to you next week. Goodbye.
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