A Prysm Systems 190″ LPD 6K display that is ‘probably the largest touchscreen in London’ is the key component of a collaboration-as-a-service room for startups at an Imperial College campus.
Interaction.Works is a cutting-edge, collaboration-as-a-service space located on Imperial College London’s Campus West. The space is designed to spark creativity, insight, innovation and the connection that working together brings. Interaction.Works shares facilities with the Imperial Business School and the school’s Scale Space business community.
“Imperial College is one of the world’s top universities,” said Richard Cobbold, chief operating officer of DV Signage and director of Interaction.Works. “They have a business school at Campus West and they have created a partnership enterprise with Blenheim Chalcot called Scale Space, which helps small companies scale up. It provides access to venture capital and industry experts to kickstart the many technology companies coming out of Imperial College. At Interaction.Works, we wanted to create the ideal environment to bring teams together to collaborate, train, innovate, build social cohesion and drive business excellence.”
DV Signage led the technology design and integration at Interaction.Works and continues to manage the day-to-day of Interaction.Works’ Collaboration Room, a joint partnership between DV Signage, Prysm Systems and Scale Space. “Our Collaboration Room features amazing technology components that are typically only available to Fortune 500 companies,” noted Cobbold. “These technologies are a significant investment and often out of reach for a startup. The key component of the Collaboration Room is Prysm Systems 190-inch LPD 6K display. It’s probably the largest touchscreen in London. It’s seamless and provides a beautiful, vivid colour display. It’s a ‘wow’ factor for anyone that visits the space.”
The LPD 6K produces vivid colours presented in 7K resolution with a deep contrast, and has a 178-degree viewing angle, to reduce eye fatigue. The display empowers collaboration and enhances presentations by allowing users to simultaneously interact with live data, images, videos, browsers and whiteboards whether they are in the room or working remotely through cloud hosting.
“We have been working with Prysm Systems for a long time,” said Cobbold. “We are one of their largest customers in the Asia-Pacific region. We’ve developed many exciting spaces and applications with Prysm Systems. We wanted to take our success with Prysm Systems and bring it to the United Kingdom. We got involved with Interaction.Works to showcase the capabilities of Prysm Systems. It is truly the future of collaboration for hybrid collaboration and co-working.”
Interaction.Works has taken the traditional co-working space to a new level by creating what is said to be the world’s first collaboration-as-a-service space. “Co-working started as a few hot desks in an empty space,” noted Cobbold. “The pandemic has forced co-working to evolve into a more functional space. The next generation of co-working will focus on technology, especially technology that is typically out of reach for the everyday business professional. We see it being much more tech-enabled because people want to collaborate effectively and have these go-to spaces where effective meetings can happen. That is a positive outcome from the Interaction. Works experiment.”
Reference : AVmagazine
