WolfVision

WolfVision GmbH
Limited liability company
(Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung)
Industry AV-Market
Founded 1966 bzw. 1994
Headquarters Klaus, Vorarlberg, Austria
Key people
Michael Lisch, Andreas Wohlgenannt
Products Visualizer, Live image cameras, Cynap
Revenue 15,0 Mio. Euro (2014)
Number of employees
around 100 (2015)
Website www.wolfvision.com

WolfVision GmbH is a manufacturer of presentation, collaboration, and knowledge sharing systems and solutions based in the Vorarlberg region of Austria. WolfVision Visualizer systems are special optoelectronic devices designed to pick up images of 3-dimensional objects, documents, books, photos and other items from a working surface in high quality, providing a high resolution output signal for video/data projectors, monitors, interactive whiteboards or videoconferencing systems.

Visualizer systems are commonly used for making presentations in conferences, meetings, and training sessions. They are also used for displaying material in detail during videoconferencing and telepresence applications. In higher education WolfVision's Visualizer products are used as a means of displaying content materials 'live' during lectures and collaborative learning. They are also used for lecture capture, for the recording of material for use in flipped classroom and blended learning situations. WolfVision has been developing and manufacturing Visualizers since 1966. All products are manufactured in Austria.

History

Visualizer Systems

The current manufactured product line includes both Desktop and Ceiling Visualizer models, and the company also produces Live Image Camera systems.

Presentation and Collaboration Systems

The vSolution Cynap system was introduced in June 2015. This system enables digital and analog content materials from a range of mobile devices to be simultaneously displayed on screen, streamed, and recorded. The system is used either alone or in combination with a Visualizer during presentations, lectures, and collaborative learning sessions.

Visualizers in Presentations

'Live' image presentation using a WolfVision Visualizer presentation system

The popular phrase ’Death by PowerPoint‘ was first used by Angela R. Garber in 2001[1] to describe the boredom and information overload often experienced during bullet pointed heavily text based Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. Using a WolfVision Visualizer is a far more effective way to interact with an audience, because it enables a speaker to spontaneously introduce additional 2 or 3 dimensional visual material into a presentation, lecture or training session. Research indicates that the visual display of ‘live’ image based material during a presentation greatly increases the audience's level of information retention and understanding.[2][3][4]

Awards

Current Customers

vSolution Connect for iPad in use with a WolfVision VZ-9.4 Series Visualizer presentation system

Current customers using WolfVision Visualizer systems include Google, NASA, Microsoft, Audi, Hewlett-Packard, New York Supreme Court, and Harvard University.

References

  1. "Death By Powerpoint". Small Business Computing.com. April 2001.
  2. Nickerson RS."A note on long term recognition memory for pictorial material". Psychonomic Science, 1968, 11(2):58-59
  3. Chris Atherton. White Paper 2011: Using Visualizers to optimize presentations
  4. John Medina. "We don't pay attention to boring things". From Brain Rules (Pear Press 2008)
  5. http://www.wirtschaftszeit.at/startseite/startseite-detail/article/btv-foerdert-hochwertige-architektur-bauherrenpreis-fuer-tirol-und-vorarlberg-2010/
  6. http://de.red-dot.org/2821.html?&cHash=7b52d1e5a25d76f97482e8a483c104cb&detail=7578
  7. http://www.avawards.com
  8. http://www.infocomm.org/cps/rde/xchg/infocomm/hs.xsl/17391.htm

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