February 7th, 2006
Virtual wall-to-wall flip charts
Demo 2006: Polyvision showed Thunder Virtual Flipchart System. It’s designed to share large amounts of information–at the other end of the spectrum from Web conferencing software like WebEx. The system includes a group easel for inputting and sharing media. Multiple pages are projected onto a wall in high resolution, making the information visible to all attendees. Participants from other locations can join a session and interact, exchanging data. It’s clearly a more advanced group think tool than scotch taping flip chart pages to a wall in an overheated conference room, but not for every meeting and budget. A full Thunderized room costs about $100,000…
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Thunder Virtual Flipchart System
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