Communication without complication

When the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality brought some of the world's brightest and most interesting researchers together this summer, they used a CODA system to keep delegates in touch with conference activities.

"CODA allowed us to easily and unobtrusively communicate with our delegates, which was especially useful between breaks when relaying breaking news of competition results or photographic images of the conference banquet", said Dr Joseph Newman, one of the conference organisers. "Importantly this exchange of information occurred in an almost ambient fashion without disturbing the flow of conversation."

Brian Boakes joins Camvine as Sales and Marketing Director following more than 15 years experience in the Broadcast, Media and Visual Communications industries.

Working across a range of disciplines – from International Market and Business Development to Strategy - Brian gained valuable Media Industry experience and held a number of roles including Head of Sales and Advertising for BT Cable TV Services and saw through the early interactive TV (near Video on Demand) trials in the mid-nineties. More recently, he has had specific focus on corporate and customer communications and in 2003 he launched an incubation business within BT focussed exclusively on digital signage.

Brian has an active interest in understanding audience psychology and how it relates to creating an effective content/communications channel to specific audiences (such as to patients in a GP surgery or consumers in a retail mall or store). He brings to Camvine a deep understanding of the fusion between Media, Marketing and Technology - critical to companies who need to communicate dynamically and effectively with their customers, the wider industry and their employees.

CODA - the Content Distribution Architecture - turns information on the network into information on your wall. And it does so with minimal hassle, minimal cost, and minimal environmental impact.

If you think that the wealth of information on the internet, or on your corporate network, deserves other outlets than just a web browser, then you may want to find out more about CODA...

CamVine has been exploring the use of the new USB-enabled displays as a way of creating Ndiyo systems. The technology makes it easy to add multiple screens to a standard PC. We've been extending it with extra keyboards and mice to allow for multiple simultaneous users, so creating perhaps the simplest ever multi-user system. You can see our prototype in action on the Ndiyo site.

In conjunction with the Ndiyo Project, Cambridge Visual networks are making available early-access kits for those organisations who wish to try out the Ndiyo technology and get a feel for what the future of thin clients will be like.

More information can be found on the NSK Product page.