The Simply Smarter Blog

A top university must meet exceptionally high
expectations for its design and function. Students,
faculty, administrators and alumni expect world-class
campus facilities that include the latest technologies
– so when the University of Notre Dame initiated the
largest building project in its history, it required a
massive AV installation across multiple buildings and a
historically significant stadium.

Today’s movie theaters aren’t solely centered on the
action on the silver screen anymore – with the rise
of streaming services’ endless content on demand
keeping film buffs glued to their living room couches,
theaters need to wow their patrons from the entry door
to the theater seats.

Sharp headquarters, therefore, includes a digital cinema
vignette within its Briefing Center – a 6,000-squarefoot
space divided into 10 dedicated staging areas for
each of its main verticals – to show theater owners and
operators how employing the latest digital technologies
can help get people off the couch and going to the
movies.

Teaching, especially in higher education, has evolved dramatically since the rise of technology. Classrooms look very different than they did a decade or two ago, and students and educators alike are reaping the benefits of collaboration methods and visual aids that were not possible until recently.

So when a university in Philadelphia saw a way to enhance its healthcare and medical sciences education spaces by making them more interactive and collaborative, it turned to technology to make it happen.

World-class natural history museums continuously strive to create extraordinary experiences for visitors, and that means finding creative ways to transport people of all ages into a specific tableau or era. So when Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History began the process of moving its famous Tyrannosaurus rex specimen to a new home within the museum, curators saw an opportunity to immerse visitors in the dinosaur’s world.