Our Winnipeg Open House was last Friday. Glenn Corthey, Inland AV Sales Manager, reported that it was attended by a record number of people. It was great to host guests from Portage LaPrarie, Brandon, The Pas, Selkirk, as well as the Winnipeg area.
The Epson BrightLink 450Wi interactive projector garnered a lot of positive attention. I watched a few of Jared Scott's demonstrations (pictured below at the Epson booth and Inland AV Presentation Theatre) and noted that the interactivity was very smooth. In other words, the BrightLink system responded fast, no drop outs, the projected image looked great and the annotations also looked great. The double-tap (like a mouse double-click) works just like it would on a tablet PC. The pen needs to make contact with the wall to write so as long as you maintain contact on the wall, a continuous line is made, just like a real pen. The fact that you use a regular wall as the projection surface means that the active image size is flexible.
BTW- The system comes with the 450Wi projector, mount, 2 pens, 4 rechargeable batteries and charger.
Grant
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Based on Smart Technologies convoluted pricing arrangemnets and dealings with their existing and potential dealers, I am optimistic that this model would submarine the makers of giant computer "mice" shaped like whiteboards.
ReplyDeleteIs there a version of Epson's software available for demo, like Smart Notebook 10 has? THis will boil down to how good the software is.
To avcuacy:
ReplyDeleteThe Epson solution is not software dependant. This means that you use anything from free on-line educational tools to other educational software you have the license for. The projector does include a basic drawing overlay tool and RM Easi Teach.
This is one of the reasons people are calling BrightLink a "Game Changer"
I would suggest contacting your local Inland AV office for more details. www.inlandav.ca