Linksys has a product called a Wireless Presentation Player. WPG12 and the new version WPG54G. I am still waiting to get one of the new models so I can't comment on that model.
Basically the device is a small access point looking device that you connect to your Video Projector and it allows you to display your computer screen on the projector without a "wired" connection. This is great for use with Tablet computers since you can walk around mark on your screen and have it displayed on the projector at the same time. >From what I have been able to determine they are running an embedded version of Linux on the box and the VNC viewer. They have a control utility that automatically searches for the presentation player and starts up the VNC server on your local machine and then establishes the connection back to the player. Since this does some type of network broadcast search you can't always find the player and thus it would be problematic for large installations. There is also no way to disable the wireless portion of the box which will not tie in with the rest of our campus wireless network. It also looks like they are using an older version of VNC (at least on the wpg12 model) that is much slower than the newer versions of VNC. The basic concept works great, but it looks as if it would be difficult to scale to 6-8 multimedia classrooms in the same building. I just wondered if anyone else had worked with this device or similar products with suggestions of how to integrate something like this and make it easy for faculty to use. -------------------------------------------------------- Ed Oakes Phone: (540) 831-7515 Radford University Fax: (540) 831-5555 Academic Computing Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
