Planar is showcasing a comprehensive lineup of visualization solutions at InfoComm 2024. The new and expanding display innovations are designed to remotely monitor display health and performance, enable diverse, fast setup and teardown, deliver flexible and all-in-one, superior, wide-viewing visual performance, and set a new standard for close-up outdoor viewing.

“Over the last few months, we unveiled multiple industry-leading visualization technologies that reinforce our dedication to making LED easier to deploy in more environments,” said Planar executive vice president Adam Schmidt. “This year at InfoComm, attendees will experience more LED display solutions from Planar than ever before and we’re excited to showcase the breadth of our expanded product portfolio. This spans first-of-its-kind applications to remotely monitor display health and performance, easy-to-use, all-in-one platforms that can be assembled in a matter of hours, an extended reality studio powering real-time, interactive user experiences and flexible, high bright solutions for rental and staging and outdoor use that set a new standard in visual performance.”

Display Monitoring Capabilities

At InfoComm 2024, Planar debuted a new remote management service for display monitoring. As a cloud-native platform, Planar WallDirector Cloud allows users to remotely manage the overall health and performance of their Planar LED and LCD displays and hardware via an intuitive dashboard view. Specifically designed to work with Planar LED and LCD display solutions, the Software as a Service (SaaS) display fleet management application aggregates multiple data sources to allow users to monitor system health and incidents as well as evaluate and troubleshoot alerts from one centralized location.

Newly-Unveiled and Enhanced LED Solutions by Planar

This year, Planar is exhibiting the company’s most extensive roster of display technologies incorporating MicroLED. Attendees will get a first-hand look at the many benefits the technology offers today with the company’s lineup of recently-expanded and popular, cutting-edge solutions. This ranges from increased energy efficiency with enhanced brightness to outstanding color uniformity and improved contrast.

Products on display include:

• Planar DirectLight  Ultra Series
• Planar UltraRes L Series All-in-One LED
• Planar Luminate Ultra W Series
• Planar DirectLight Pro Series

Versatile Indoor and Outdoor Visualization Solutions Built for Contemporary Applications

Planar says it is further demonstrating the company’s steadfast commitment to support an even wider set of customers and markets with the family of Leyard LED display solutions. With designs for standard pitch, outdoor, robust technologies like Chip on Board (COB) as well as rental and staging deployments, InfoComm 2024 attendees can experience a selection of products well suited for mainstream applications spanning digital-out-of-home (DOOH), retail, hospitality, sports, and entertainment with the following:

• Leyard LN Series
• Leyard VDS Series
• Leyard MGS Series
• Planar LookThru Transparent OLED

Extended Reality Studio Delivering Immersive Experiences for Corporate and Beyond

The next-generation Planar Venue Pro VX Series is also on display at InfoComm 2024, exhibiting improved contrast, lower scan ratio, and higher frame rates for in-camera and on-camera performance in an XR studio designed for applications spanning corporate, education, and beyond. Planar and affiliate company OptiTrack will present real-time, interactive experiences illustrating how users can implement extended reality in product launches, online lectures, and more.

In addition to Planar’s indoor fine pixel pitch LED video wall display, the studio will feature a media server seamlessly integrating with OptiTrack motion capture software and motion capture cameras. This integration will allow attendees to experience movement tracking of several props, in addition to simplified high-quality, low-latency performance motion tracking made possible by OptiTrack’s propriety motion capture cameras and software.

Planar Tech Demos

Attendees can experience several technology previews that are intended to raise the bar on display performance and deployment. This includes displays demonstrating pixel-level monitoring as well as a next-generation fine pixel pitch LED solution designed to make faceting more convenient with less harsh visuals. Planar will also present an outdoor kiosk complete with a quick-service restaurant system and displays featuring the ability to create concave and convex curves in two places within a single cabinet.

Planar’s expanded portfolio of LED visualization technologies is on display in Booth W945 at InfoComm 2024.

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