I'm curious why you are looking for wireless solutions instead of the more standardized cabled ones.
Flexibility for the location of the presenter, and avoiding the need to snake/tape-down cables on the floor and create a tripping hazard.
I have clients who host presentations and the presenters Windows, Linux and Apple machines - both Macs and iPads. Powerpoint, Keynote, PDFs and live browsers. I'd be interested to learn if there are solutions that can handle all these variations, which are essentially analog VGA or HDMI.
I've just had a meeting with the various contractors for this project. Turns out they had an expert on board, but they did not really know what we, specifically, were looking for (I got brought into this process late). Guy works for a company called "Syracuse Time & Alarm". As in time punch clocks, fire alarms and security systems. Who knew they did AV stuff? Nobody in this town did, apparently, except this general contractor.
Anyway this guy assured me that they can do a wireless system encompassing video and audio, in which the only wireless connectivity involves the actual video and audio signals. They can supply spitter switches to enable ganging two or more projectors to one source, but each projector will operate on its own wireless frequency so we can have three presentations running at once. They can supply a channeled audio system that will allow separate audio for each room but allow them to be ganged together when the moveable walls are down. This will also accommodate an RF assistive listening system that will work separately in each room (and when the walls are down, the same audio gets sent to the three separate systems).
The wireless will work off a USB stick plugged into the laptop. It doesn't require any installation of software. But I don't know if this is OS-agnostic. We use Windows here, and it didn't occur to me to ask about Macs. We want people to be able to bring in their own laptops and some of those may be Macs. It's a good question. I will pass it on.
The only other unanswered question for me is, can their equipment accommodate the option of plugging a USB stick into the projector remote to allow for PowerPoint presentations without a laptop? They are looking into it; the guy did not know that such remotes exist.
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