Hi I'm Paddy Cassidy, with Sony North America Professional Engineering.
Today I'll be giving you an overview and demonstrating some of the functionality of Vision Exchange collaboration system.
Vision Exchange is a collaborative solution that can be used in a variety of a classroom scenarios, with a user friendly, intuitive user interface.
For this demonstration, we have a Main Unit connected to a single display.
Later on this series, I'll explain how to connect additional devices, such as Pod PCs, HDMI devices, and wireless devices known as BYOD or Bring Your Own Device.
To begin a new session, tap start.
The session begins with an empty work space, and the Application Controller Bar on the right.
Now before begin the demonstration, I'd like to first give a brief overview of the screen layout of a fully connected and configured Vision Exchange system.
Let's take a look.
In the header area of the screen, you see what is called the Information Area.
This displays the model name of the Main Unit, time, IP address, and passcode that are required for wireless users to connect their devices to the network.
Below that, you have the Content Area, which displays the selected content and acts as your main work space.
Over here, you have Content Control Bar, which contains tools used to interact with the Content Area.
Further to the right, you have the Application Control Bar, which allows you to recall various functions of the system.
Down below, you'll find a Thumbnail Area, which displays a list of content such as whiteboards and snapshots as well as connected HDMI devices and BYODs.
In the Pod Sharing Area, you'll see the Content Area of the Pods, connected to the Main Unit.
Not all of these different panels are shown all the time. They are only shown when that relevant feature is enabled and in use.
Tap the whiteboard icon to add a whiteboard.
You can add up to 4 whiteboards within a single session.
The created whiteboards will be displayed on a common Thumbnail Area.
Tap the colour chooser, and select the colour. Then select the pen tool.
You can write notes, create annotations or draw diagrams on your whiteboard.
You can also increase or decrease line width, using the line width selector.
Tap undo to undo the last action, or tap redo to restore it. Undo-all will clear the content of the whiteboard.
You can insert images to your whiteboard, including pictures stored on a connected USB drive or previously captured snapshots.
To insert a picture, tap the picture icon. The content of USB drive are shown.
Select the picture you wish to insert to the whiteboard. The select tool will be active after inserting the picture, allowing you to easily move or resize the picture.
When you want to highlight important items in the Content Area, make notes, or annotate diagrams, for example, use the annotation feature.
The basic operation is similar to the whiteboard feature.
Just click on the annotation button when an external sources selected, then the annotation toolbar will appear.
Your annotation stay with each input source, not on the overall Vision Exchange screen. So you can switch back and forth between the content and have a relevant annotations displayed.
To save your group work for later review, the snapshot feature comes in handy.
Tap the snapshot button to capture the visible content of the whiteboard.
Snapshots are added to the snapshot folder, which is created in the lower area of the workspace.
To display a captured snapshot, tap the snapshot folder.
Snapshots are then displayed in the main workspace, and you can scroll left or right to view all snapshots captured during the current session.
You have the option to save all captured snapshots to connect USB drive when closing the session.
Next, I'll demonstrate how to connect additional devices to the Vision Exchange system.
In order to interface with Vision Exchange, wireless devices, known as BYOD or Bring Your Own Device, must have the Vision Exchange App installed.
With this App, users can mirror their content, control the system, and take and download snapshots for later discussion review.
The Vision Exchange App can be downloaded from the web, from the Mac App Store, the iOS App Store, or from Google Play Store, depending on the operating system of the device.
Search for Vision Exchange App on each site, or follow the link from: www.sony.com/VEapp.
Now let's take a look at how to input images from your BYODs and external HDMI sources.
By using the VE App installed on your BYOD, you can wirelessly present from a variety of devices such as laptops, tablets, and smartphones.
To connect to the Vision Exchange system from any wireless device, launch the app, then enter the IP address and the passcode shown on the main screen's Information Area.
You'll see three ways to connect to the system.
Mirroring, Control, or Download. Select Mirroring to present wirelessly from your device.
An Windows, MacOS and Android devices, this operation is fairly straightforward.
Simply enable the mirroring switch, and allow the required permission as needed.
You can select to mirror on the Content Area or fullscreen.
And iOS devices such as iPads and iPhones, this operation requires a few additional steps the first time you connect to Vision Exchange on that device.
Once you've completed this setup, you'll be able to mirror content to Vision Exchange quickly and easily.
First, go into the Settings, then scroll down to Control Center.
Tap Customize Controls.
Locate Screen Recording under More Controls.
Tap the green button to add this to the list of controls included in the Control Center.
You should now see Screen Recording in the top section of the list.
Next, swipe up to display the Control Center, and press down the Screen Recording button that now appears on the right side of the screen.
Select Vision Exchange App from the Screen Recording list.
If you wish to capture audio from iOS device, enable the microphone output button, then tap Start Broadcast.
The iOS device's screen will then appear in the Vision Exchange Thumbnail Area.
You can now mirror content from the iOS device onto the main workspace.
To wirelessly control the Vision Exchange system from your BYOD, tap the Control button.
If the session is already under way, you'll take control of the ongoing session.
Otherwise, tap Start to begin a new session.
You can add and modify whiteboards, insert images and videos and switch between inputs and images.
You'll have access to all the features mentioned previously through BYOD control.
Hit back to return to the Home Screen.
HDMI is convenient for a permanent classroom setup with th lectern PC, document cameras, blu-ray players, or guest PCs.
To input a HDMI source, simply connect to a source to the Vision Exchange HDMI input.
The Main Unit PEQ-C100 has two HDMI inputs, PEQ-C130 has four HDMI inputs, and Pod PC Software version 1.1 equipped with an AverMedia Capture Box sold separately can support a single HDMI input.
The input images will be displayed in the common Thumbnail Area, along with whiteboards and snapshot folders.
This helps you quickly search for the desired content.
You can quickly and easily switch video inputs by simply dragging and dropping the desired source onto the Content Area.
Toggling the fullscreen button allows you to switch between fullscreen content view, and source thumbnail view.
Finally, to close a session, hit the Close Session icon.
You'll be asked to save snapshots on a USB flash drive.
This concludes the overview and demonstration of the Vision Exchange collaboration system.
I hope you found this informative. Thanks for watching, and we'll see you in the classroom.
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