Virtual Display Environments
This is AstroVirtual blog post #2, glad to have you here
Display Environments are broadly defined, and quite variable.
There are the well-known ‘war-room’ environments, prized by many large corporations for their huge rooms with multiple large displays adorning the walls, that people can walk up to and point to specific data or features.
There are Galleries, like strolling through a museum or an art gallery, where every bay or window or alcove features a new story or perspective. There are also Dioramas, which can be a curved set of screens with perhaps 120° viewing perspective, up to Panoramas, which are fully circular environments. Dioramas are categorized for educational, artistic, or entertainment purposes. AstroVirtual has created prototypes of each of these in various guises. Virtual instead of Physical, with ‘no limits’ to the number and quality of the displays
One AstroVirtual client became enamored of the name ‘Observatory’ and commissioned two different versions that are described below—one is an Auditorium setting, and the other is an Exhibition Hall or Convention Hall. Each was used at the prestigious United Nations General Assembly meetings in late 2023 and 2024 for their Digital Health symposiums.
You can even be fanciful, envisioning a Mall-like cluster of theaters co-resident within a Starship or Star Trek environment, or a Free-Field environment, where big screens pop up in a meadow—kind of like Monet’s Haystacks in different lighting. Alternatively, and more simply, a 4-screen teacher’s Classroom setting with variable seat configuration.
AstroVirtual has pioneered creating any of these environments in a VIRTUAL context, which offers several key advantages over a true physical embodiment:
Significantly lower cost to create, operate, and maintain
Access from anywhere, anytime via a Web Browser vs. one physical location
Flexibility in room size and configuration, and number of displays
Significantly easier remodeling of screen contents
What might these look like?
All of the examples shown are available from AstroVirtual’s ‘stock catalog’
Customized environments may be accommodated with relatively rapid turn-around times.
Blog #4 (coming February 18, 2025) will illustrate some of the myriad content possibilities.
Let’s review a couple of points. Anyone with permission to sign into your dedicated ‘environment’ can do so via any smart device—smartphone, tablet, laptop, or personal computer—and see the same exact screens being seen by anyone else currently signed in. This is browser-based pixel-streaming technology, unlike anything you’ve seen previously.
This means that collaborative viewing and conversations can be held with your team, no matter where they are located. No need to have to travel to headquarters and that big ‘war-room’ by the Board Room. And you can easily share newly-updated content from your own remote department with the entire group, and hold a meaningful discussion about it.
Moreover, every screen can be manipulated, modified, re-defined, or even re-designed for the entire group by any attendee with granted permission. With multiple display screens, it is a natural to do side-by-side comparisons of data iterations—a “What If” capability for true collaborative scenario planning.
Even better, these environments are easily, inexpensively, and quickly constructed by comparison with physical ‘war-rooms’ incapable of immersion for remote site attendees.
Can your company afford to skip these powerful productivity enhancements?
For more about the AstroVirtual edge, stay tuned . . . .