Press Room - 2000 Archive

Panoram Boosts Project Collaboration Productivity with New Additions to Workgroup Display Line

New products deliver wide range of features, including extreme-resolution stereographic visualization, to compact, economical team and conference room displays.

Anaheim, CA (June 15, 2000) At the 2000 INFOCOMM Exhibitions, Panoram Technologies introduced additions to its line of workgroup display systems. These advanced technology workgroup displays enable project teams to immerse themselves in their shared visual data and interact in ways never before possible. This results in increased, inter-disciplinary collaboration and therefore significant reductions in time-to-market, project errors, design reworks and R&D schedules, all of which can mean major increases in scientific understanding, product quality, decision accuracy and team interaction.

Having led the market for visualization display technology with its large scale and auditorium facilities, Panoram began to introduce workgroup systems in 1998 to broaden the application and deployment of visualization throughout the enterprise. The year 2000 marks an arrival point for this category of display.

All of Panoram's workgroup display systems have been designed as self-contained, freestanding units that integrate practical design formats with good engineering, multiple-channel state-of-the-art projection systems, advanced optical display technologies and compatibility with today's most advanced computers and computing platforms.

The first addition to Panoram's workgroup display line is the Panoram Team Display (TD) series, engineered specifically for work team areas, conference rooms and executive briefing applications. The TD systems fit neatly into standard-sized facilities, and their shallow depth preserves available floor space. Each model offers a massive, wide-aspect 120" x 45" display area and allows the user to select a variety of input types through a digital touch pad. Sources include desktop or portable computers, VCRs, DVD and up to six stereo audio sources, to allow all members of the project team to simply plug in and display their information.

Up to two standard sources can be displayed at once, or a multichannel visualization computer can fill the entire screen with a single, high-resolution 2560 X 1024 image (higher resolution than HDTV). An integrally designed 19" equipment rack bay accommodates computer and AV gear behind an attractive smoke glass door. A unique, pin-registered projector bracket inside the unit allows for easy maintenance and service of the projector from the front of the display. The height of the hard acrylic rear projection screen was designed specifically to accommodate workgroups of 5 to 12 members in a conference table setting.

The TD series includes three models. The Panoram TD201 features two powerful XGA (2048 X 768-pixel composite resolution) 1,000-ANSI-lumen LCD projectors. The images created by the two projectors are integrated with Panoram exclusive edge-matching technology to virtually eliminate visible image separation. The Panoram TD202 shares the same features as the TD201 while offering enhanced display brightness and resolution with two SXGA (2560 X 1024 composite resolution) 2,000-ANSI-lumen LCD projectors. The final member of the series is the Panoram TD203, which features two advanced CRT data projectors, which can accommodate the high frame rates required for active matrix stereographic display capability.

Another addition to Panoram's workgroup display line is a new category of high-performance display, the Panoram Virtual Image Plane (VIP™) Desk. The VIP Desk offers a full 5.7 megapixel resolution in a sharp and bright display providing a 46" x 11" (117 X 28 cm) image. The image segregation between the multi-channel sources is an unprecedented two pixels small in a display system technology that is capable of full bandwidth active matrix stereographic visualization. The Panoram VIP Desk is the ultimate visualization tool for critical applications, such as medical imaging, pharmaceutical research, manufacturing, product design, oil/gas reservoir management and all forms of 3D stereographic information visualization and small group collaboration.

"Panoram designed these new workgroup display solutions in response to numerous requests from our clients who already benefit from the use of our auditorium-scale systems," said Theo Mayer, President and CEO of Panoram Technologies, Inc. "Like our other systems, the TD Series and VIP Desk will help them get to market faster and more profitably, but without the large room requirements, infrastructure and overhead that the full blown facilities require. That means they can spread visualization throughout more of the enterprise."