Vaddio partners with Sonic Foundry to develop new technology solutions integrated into classrooms

Oh God, company that designs, manufactures and markets camera control systems for the conference and presentation industry, y Sonic Foundry, provider of conference capture and event broadcasting solutions over the Internet, have established an alliance to expand knowledge capture in classrooms through innovative video technologies.

Oh God has reached an agreement with Sonic Foundry to bring educational technologies to all classrooms. The partnership has been formed to explore innovative new solutions that cost-effectively extend the power of video to classrooms of all shapes and sizes., while maintaining a high-quality user experience for students, teachers and technologists.

Gary Weiss, director general de Sonic Foundry, has stated: “We believe that knowledge shared in a classroom - of any kind- It is a value and must be preserved. Our partnership with Vaddio will make it even easier to capture, file, protect and study this information, regardless of the physical space in which it was generated”.

Sonic Foundry and Vaddio have collaborated extensively in the past, sharing facilities in state-of-the-art buildings and technologically enabled classrooms. This new alliance seeks to combine the best of in-room video technology expertise with the most advanced broadcast capture and delivery system on the market today.

Future bet

Alan Greenberg, senior analyst and partner at Wainhouse Research, has pointed out that “although we are not yet at the point where the smart classroom is a ubiquitous and viable concept, we are getting closer, and partnerships that combine expertise help us get there faster. Two premier solution providers like Sonic Foundry and Vaddio, coming together to address how to reach many classrooms with video capture technology and begin to address the economics of equipping classrooms with affordable equipment, It's a safe bet. We'll be watching to see how this partnership evolves over time.”

For your part, Rob Sheeley, president of Vaddio, has pointed out: “We've always been committed to automating the latest conference capture tools – whether it's camera tracking or combining people and content., There is a huge opportunity to enable the rapid expansion of automated lecture capture across all segments of education., and our association helps schools, colleges and universities to create a classroom with fully automated lecture capture”.