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Cynthia Wisehart on Tinnitus
We’ve talked about tinnitus before. It’s my 10-year anniversary this month actually (yes I remember exactly when it started) and I know many of you deal with it too....
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Cynthia Wisehart on Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser
Walt Disney World made headlines last year when it closed its much-publicized Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser hotel. Operating for only just over a year, the ultra-immersive hotel’s operation costs...
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Cynthia Wisehart on HOLOPLOT
On May 13, Sphere Entertainment announced that it has acquired all of the remaining shares it did not previously own of HOLOPLOT GmbH, a global 3D audio company. According...
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Cynthia Wisehart on IPMX
As we go to press IPMX (Internet Protocol Media Experience) has been released. Officially defined, IPMX is a set of open standards and specifications to enable the carriage of...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Milan Manager
As we touch base on Staging in this issue, one of the things I’ll be looking forward to seeing at InfoComm is Milan Manager, a shared project of L-Acoustics...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Hybrid Tools
The need for hybrid tools is blending audio and video data in new ways, to achieve better camera tracking, intelligibility, and interoperability among other things. I’ve been around the...
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Cynthia Wisehart on LG Transparent Displays
At CES it was the year of the transparent displays. We’ve seen them before of course, but it went up a notch this time. From an AV standpoint the...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Dante Rebrand
In late November, Audinate announced a major brand identity refresh that positions Dante as a complete AV-over-IP distribution platform. It’s a role Dante has been occupying and growing into...
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Cynthia Wisehart on UV Stage Lighting
This month in our Pro AV Today newsletter, we covered a disturbing story about concert lighting and eye damage. This hit home for me in part because I had...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Sphere
I’ve been aware of Sphere since it was a hole in the ground, watching it rise gradually out of the desert—so ugly really in many of its stages, including...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Sony’s Faith Advocate
As we go to press, Sony’s longtime faith advocate Craig Harper is retiring and transitioning his responsibilities to Mark Hanna, the new National Manager supporting Sony Faith. Craig has...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Going Back to the Office
The back to the office debate, like most things that are breathlessly hyped in media and glibly discussed in high level corporate meetings, is not actually binary. The either/or...
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Cynthia Wisehart on AI
Talk of AI is everywhere—often amorphous and nonspecific. It’s hyped and it’s feared, but in many ways, it’s not so new. In the AV world, software assisted intelligent technology...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Integrator Relationships
When I was in theme park design, we always wanted more than the technology could do. Even with the inevitable limitations there were always designers who could overcome nearly...
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Cynthia Wisehart on SVC
Welcome to our redesign of SVC. More of a refresh actually. We wanted to make the print magazine more tech-friendly so we could include more visual information, and it...
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Cynthia Wisehart on NAB Nostalgia
I have mixed feelings about nostalgia columns but I’m still going to write one because as we go to press I’m leaving for my 30th NAB Show. Also NAB...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Shure’s GLX-D+ Dual Band Wireless System
Early this month, Shure debuted a new GLX-D+ dual band wireless system. Much was made over the guitar and vocalist support. Yes, the microphone was designed with a particular...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Dante AV
Many things that started in 2019, traveled an unanticipated path to 2023. Dante AV is one of those things. In 2019, Audinate made two significant announcements, Dante AV and...
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Cynthia Wisehart on ISE 2023
As you read this, ISE 2023 is over. As I write, it hasn’t happened yet. (That’s how print works). So I’ll speculate and see how many of my questions...
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Cynthia Wisehart on color space
As 2022 wraps up, color space is in play. A new study has identified an important error in the 3D mathematical color space. For more than 100 years we...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Inclusion
I get a lot of pitches from publicists, and I cannot open all of them, especially when they come from an unfamiliar source. Still among the hundreds of emails...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Collaboration
This is a story of swag. And of people doing their jobs and collectively saving me from an emergency of my own making. On the morning we were to...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Jupiter Systems
I’ve been to the Jupiter Systems headquarters in Hayward plenty of times. It’s cubicle-y, beige, and resolutely unpretentious. The trees around the parking lot have grown bigger over the...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Mix Sound for Film & TV
In-person is back for so many things. One of my favorite in-person events has been the Mix Sound for Film & TV event put on by my longtime colleague...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Christie’s Manufacturing
Are robotics the future of AV manufacturing? Apparently, Christie thinks so. They’ve long been pioneers in factory engineering—the company’s Environmental Management System (EMS) dates back to 2006. The system,...
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Cynthia Wisehart on the Return to InfoComm
Until Covid hit, I’d been going to Las Vegas for a continuous 30 years for the NAB Show and alternate years for InfoComm. That ambivalent annual streak ended with...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Bob Simpson
This is one of the most personal columns I’ll probably write here. Last month Bob Simpson, founder of Electrosonic passed away after a long life and career, leaving behind...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Hall Technologies
As we went to press on April 12th, 15 months after the name change from Hall Research, and just four months after moving to Dallas, Hall Technologies announced an...
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Cynthia Wisehart on TAIT
In March, news came that the bangin’ rock & roll experience company TAIT had acquired the imaginative powerhouse Thinkwell now in its 20th anniversary year. When Michael Tait founded...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Douglas Trumbull
I started my career as a theme park designer when Douglas Trumbull was already famous in my world, having set the standard for all we would pursue with the ...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Covid Safety
This month, during the Omicron surge, I heard a story from someone who works in national-level live events. The house crew tests every shift and wears masks. Visiting talent...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Meyer Sound Constellation
As we go to press, it’s still 2021 and Meyer Sound Constellation is officially 15 years old, though its roots reach back decades further, all the way to Canberra...
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Cynthia Wisehart on eGlass
I think we’ve all had quite different experiences adapting to video calls and meetings, and a personal range of comfort and discomfort. I learned about some of my preferences...
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Chapel of Sound is now open
Remote performance venue near the Great Wall of China has some of the most innovative acoustics in the world.
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Cynthia Wisehart on Event Safety Alliance
Today as we go to press, the Event Safety Alliance announced the postponement of their hybrid 3-day December 2021 event to March 22-24, 2021 on the campus of Rock...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Tradeshows
As we go to press, a reported 1400 people attended a plucky CEDIA, NAB and Enterprise Connect are cancelled, and AVIXA CEO David Labruskes is 99.999% sure InfoComm will...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Orlando’s Holy Land Experience
Surely one of the most peculiar losses of COVID is Orlando’s Holy Land Experience. You may not know this, but it shares a parking lot with Electrosonic’s Orlando office,...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Consumer Flexibility
The National Retail Federation is reporting that consumers want to go back to physical stores (although with the added convenience of permanent curbside pickup). Workers do kinda want to...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Dante AV
I remember when Dante AV was announced at what we called a trade show. Long ago, in the before times BC, your may remember that the tribes used to...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Remote Schooling
As we go to press, the FCC announced $7 billion with a B to improve remote access for American students. Where there is money, there is opportunity. Not always...
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Cynthia Wisehart on Online School
As we go to press, the schools in LA have just opened up ish. The day before classes resumed, I did an unscientific survey with one sample fifth grader...
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Cynthia Wisehart on the Oculus
There have been so many accomplishments in pandemic. Some of course have been heartbreakingly hard won and I try to never miss a chance to acknowledge the heroic and...
