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Vistacom Tech Expo 2023: Discovering Planar’s Cutting-edge Commercial Display Solutions

Advanced display technology is reshaping how businesses communicate visually across commercial environments

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Advanced display technology is reshaping how businesses communicate visually across commercial environments

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Vistacom Tech Expo 2023, the gathering place for tech innovators, marks its 15th anniversary, offering a platform to explore the latest commercial display solutions. The booth interviews provide an in-depth look into the advancements redefining how visuals interact in various spaces.

The booth interviews provide an in-depth look into the advancements redefining how visuals interact in various spaces.

Michael O'Halloran, a Regional Account Manager with Planar, shares the latest and greatest in commercial display solutions, shedding light on Planar's journey over four decades from crafting desktop monitors to now creating bespoke video walls. One of the marvels showcased is Planar's LookThru Transparent OLED Display. In this self-illuminating display, black pixels turn translucent, providing a peek into the space behind the screen, merging reality with digital imagery seamlessly.

In this self-illuminating display, black pixels turn translucent, providing a peek into the space behind the screen, merging reality with digital imagery seamlessly.

This conversation with Michael O'Halloran unveils the strides Planar has made towards revolutionizing display technology, encapsulating the spirit of innovation that Vistacom Tech Expo 2023 champions.

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I'm Michael Haller, and I'm regional account manager with Planar Systems. Planar is a manufacturer of commercial display solutions. For everything from desktop monitors to video walls as large as you can imagine. Plan R has been around for forty years. We've been a display manufacturer that entire time. Over the years, we've gravitated into the bigger video solutions. It's hard to do a solid representation with just a small booth at a trade show. No two projects are the same, and every video wall is a consultative sale to make sure we find the right solutions for the customer. So to show some of the cool capabilities that we have in the lineup, we brought our transparent OLED solution. So this screen is the closest to magic I've ever sold in video products. It is self illuminating OLED on the surface and then the black pixels become translucent. So you could see through the display into the area behind it. But it is certainly a a cool way to leave an impressive mark on any of your guests or clients. If you look back over video screens and ten years have come a long way in a quick period of time. Our direct light ultra zero point six millimeter. That is the same resolution within fractions of a millimeter as a fifty five inch ultra narrow bezel LCD. So the technology now exists to replace and a pixel to pixel match, an ultra narrow bezel fifty five inch panel with direct u LEDs. Direct View LED isn't a new technology. It's been around for as long as you've heard the phrase jumbo tron in the early eighties, but what has changed is the ability to put them indoors and get up close to them. And the hard part is getting the right product into the right application. We built the name and reputation on technical product and supporting for its entire life cycle. And that's unique to Planar. You can always find out more at Planar dot com. And we have showrooms across the country. Your more Cosma will meet you in New York or if you're Philly based, we'll see you out there. Come on in and learn more about our technology and how we can build the right video well for

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