Barco announced that the new ClickShare Hub Pro room system bundle developed in partnership with Huddly and Shure has been Certified for Microsoft Teams. The bundle aims to help organizations deliver clearer audio and video in medium-sized spaces while keeping the Microsoft Teams Rooms one-touch join and ClickShare wireless content sharing experience. The new bundle […]

LAS VEGAS — June 4, 2026 — Sennheiser, the first choice for advanced audio technology that makes collaboration and learning easier, will bring its most ambitious InfoComm showcase yet to Las Vegas, June 13-19, 2026. Visitors to booth C5313 at the Las Vegas Convention Center will find a full slate of product demonstrations spanning the […]

Rise AV officially announced the return of Elevate, its program with a mission to accelerate the progression of women into senior leadership roles across the industry. “It helped me build confidence, strengthen my leadership skills, and gain clarity in my professional direction… empowering me to contribute more meaningfully,” said Elizabeth Callens, Barco. The Rise AV […]

Nanolumens plans to celebrate its 20th anniversary at InfoComm 2026. The company said it will showcase a range of LED display technologies through application-driven zones, including mission-critical environments, collaborative workspaces, experiential visualization and future-forward display technologies. Nanolumens said it will feature the Engage Pro with Aurora video processing, The Portal, the Captivate All-In-One, the NanoPanel […]

Barco announced its partnership with Huddly to develop a new wireless room system bundle certified for Microsoft Teams. The system combines ClickShare Hub Pro with the Huddly C1 video bar for small-to-medium-sized wireless conferencing room deployment. “We’re excited to partner with Barco ClickShare to bring a certified for Microsoft Teams solution to market,” said Fraser […]

Barco has announced the launch of its first ClickShare Hub wireless room system bundles certified for Microsoft Teams, developed in partnership with Sennheiser. The new bundles combine Barco’s ClickShare Hub Core with the Sennheiser TeamConnect Bar S for small meeting rooms, and the ClickShare Hub Pro with the TeamConnect Bar M for medium-sized spaces. According […]

Barco has expanded its long-standing partnerships with Sennheiser, Logitech and Huddly to support the development of certified room system bundles built around the ClickShare Hub, the company’s first room system device introduced in June 2025. The effort advances Barco’s strategy to bring the ClickShare experience to every type of meeting room and extend its reach […]

The JBL Installed Audio Roadshow + Barco Alliance Partner Demo is making a stop in Charlotte, North Carolina, Oct. 27, bringing hands-on demos, live system design discussions and direct access to manufacturer experts. I spoke with Pat Booth, CTS, DSCE, and John Rossman, CTS, both BDM II Technical Specialists at Almo Pro AV, about what […]

THIS IS A PROMOTED POST Barco ClickShare has released “Reimagining the Meeting Experience,” a new report created in partnership with WORKTECH Academy that explores how meeting culture, technology and design intersect in the hybrid era. The study defines four distinct meeting types — Collaborate, Create, Compete and Control — each requiring a different mix of […]

ClickShare, Barco’s video conferencing, collaboration wireless sharing solution, is now available in Open Icecat. This gives channel partners access to product content, including detailed specifications, marketing texts, images, and multimedia assets. Through Icecat’s open data platform, Barco now syndicates its product content directly to a growing network of global resellers, e-commerce platforms and integrators. This […]

In Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” Juliet famously muses, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Lovely sentiment. But Juliet never had to set up a conference room before a board meeting. In the AV industry, names matter. In fact, they often become shorthand for […]

The results are in! The 2025 rAVe Readers’ Choice Awards winners have officially been named, and once again, it’s all thanks to you — the AV community. Every nomination and vote came straight from the people who live and breathe this industry every day. No sponsors. No pay-to-play. Just real recognition for the companies and […]

Barco has introduced the ClickShare Hub, a modular wireless video conferencing room system designed to support hybrid meetings. The ClickShare Hub Pro serves as a Microsoft Teams Rooms device, delivering AI-assisted experiences and productivity-enhancing features. ClickShare Hub Pro is the first modular Microsoft Teams Rooms device built on the Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP), Microsoft’s […]

Partnership aims to streamline workflows and enhance security for integrators and event producers Nanolumens and Barco will jointly demonstrate the interoperability of their flagship products at InfoComm 2025, highlighting how Barco CTRL, the company’s control room software platform, integrates with Nanolumens’ Aurora LED image processor. Attendees can view the demonstration at the Nanolumens booth, where […]

Sennheiser’s TeamConnect Bar Solutions are now available to U.S.-based end users through the Barco Try-and-Buy program, the company announced. The program allows customers to trial a Barco ClickShare unit paired with either the Sennheiser TC Bar S or TC Bar M for 30 days at no cost. The program was previously available to customers in […]

This Sunday, Chris Neto introduced the topic of projection mapping to the #AVintheAM community. I was busy with family activities throughout the day, and even though the topic was practically shouting my name, I had to sit it out … until now. Projection mapping is often misunderstood. It involves much more than large-scale projection on […]

Sennheiser announced its TeamConnect (TC) Bar Solutions will be added to the Barco Try and Buy program for end user customers in Europe. ​ As part of the program, customers can loan a Barco ClickShare solution with a TC Bar S or TC Bar M free of charge for a 30-day period. Participants in the […]

Vivitek announced the launch of the NC-X500, a wireless presentation box aimed at UCC and educational applications. The company says the NC-X500 supports high-resolution (4K) mirroring of videos, photos and documents and is a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) solution with a built-in NovoConnect wireless presentation and collaboration system. According to the company, the NC-X500 […]

Exciting news! The winners of the 2024 rAVe Readers’ Choice Awards have been announced. As always, we’re here to spotlight the brands that made a real impact in the industry this year. We take into account only the votes and nominations from the AV community. Each winning company will receive a unique plaque, which we’ll […]

Barco announced a major step in ClickShare’s path towards a full carbon-neutral offering for meeting collaboration. The ClickShare Bar has been granted the carbon-neutral label by leading climate advisory organization CO2logic, a South Pole company, and is the second ClickShare product to receive the carbon-neutral label after the ClickShare Conference CX-50 2nd generation. With this […]

Last month, I flew to Lausanne, Switzerland, to spend two days understanding how a digital signage company, SpinetiX, is totally managing the content for every single room in the Millennium. The Millennium isn’t your average workplace. In addition to housing a TV station and about a dozen corporations, it also includes: ALL of this is […]

Barco announced that Jan van Houtte has been promoted to Executive Vice President of Barco’s Meeting Experience Business Unit. In this pivotal role, Jan will strengthen ClickShare’s strategy, driving further innovation and sales expansion. Jan van Houtte has a strong track record of building world-class organizations and leading strategic initiatives. He most recently served as Barco’s Vice President […]

In today’s episode of rAVe [TV], Gary Kayye tours Barco’s headquarters and goes over the latest news solo (Steph is on a plane, attending SAVe’s conference). Watch this to see some special behind-the-scenes footage and learn more about Logitech’s MX Brio, Pioneer’s new immersive sound AV receivers and more. 

Barco entered into a strategic partnership with Microsoft around Teams devices that will enable ClickShare devices to provide data that will be available through Microsoft’s Teams Rooms Pro Management Portal. As you likely know, the Barco ClickShare solution enables users to host calls from their own laptop with their preferred videoconferencing platform, using the audio […]

Welcome to my 24th annual Kayye’s Krystal Ball! It’s been an honor to have written this for 24 straight years and even more of an honor for it to have so many thousands of readers annually — it’s almost always our most-read article of the year on rAVe [PUBS]. So, if you’re reading this right […]

What a show! I am proud to say we sent reporters from rAVe [PUBS] to every single booth at ISE 2024 earlier this month to shoot videos of new (and returning!) products. We amassed a cache of more than 2,100 videos, and we posted them all on our (beautiful) ISE microsite, which also includes photos, […]

The celebrated LUX Helsinki light festival took place at venues across the Finnish capital during January, with a highlight being the specially created projection mapped visual display onto the intricate façade of the National Gallery Ateneum. The looping, five-hour graphic animations formed a large, 8000px-wide canvas and were projected by six Barco UDX 4K32 projectors […]

On today’s episode of rAVe [TV], Gary and I talk about a few of our favorite products on the show floor, including ones from Barco, DTEN, Samsung and more. We also feature Frederick Loucks from Domotz as our guest to talk a little bit about remote management. Finally, Gary rounds out the episode with a […]

Barco just launched the ClickShare Bar, two different video bars for UCC applications in small and medium-sized meeting rooms. Both video bars integrate a ClickShare Conference (plus a wired USB-C input) with a camera, speakers, and mic array. The all-in-one video bar features noise suppression and acoustic echo cancellation for audio along with video speaker […]

Barco launched a new projector in its solid-state F400 range. The F400-4K joins the F400-N4K (native 4K), couples laser projection, high-speed processing, and reliability with 4K UHD resolution. You may recall that the F400 range is designed for training and simulation applications. The F400 range is designed specifically for the demanding training and simulation market […]

Command and control rooms are where information, technology and human expertise converge to enable effective decision making, resource management and responses to different scenarios. The importance of control rooms extends across a wide and growing range of sectors, and they help contribute to safety, security and operational efficiency. Let’s explore key trends in command and […]

Barco and Crestron have entered into a global patent license agreement earlier this year. This enables Crestron to utilize some of Barco’s ClickShare patents for Crestron’s own collaboration solutions, including AirMedia wireless conferencing and presentation systems. Barco will continue to develop collaboration technologies but the point of the agreement between Barco and Crestron is to […]