Article posted on April 23, 2013

Barco, a global leader in visualization and collaboration solutions, announces new features for its easy-to-use wireless collaboration and presentation system, ClickShare.

The new ClickShare app enables users to quickly and easily display static content from an iPad or iPhone on the ClickShare central screen. As of today, the ClickShare app and the required accompanying software update for the ClickShare Base Unit are available for download, free of charge.

Mobile devices – such as iPads and iPhones – are becoming increasingly important in business environments as portable information tools. Because they are used to share relevant data in meetings, they are a valuable asset to ClickShare, Barco’s meeting room collaboration and presentation system.

The new ClickShare app provides a virtual button with the same functionality as a physical button, so that users can click in and out of the ClickShare composition on the central screen with all of ClickShare’s ease-of-use. The ClickShare app supports JPEG images and PDF documents, Dropbox accounts and annotation tools, as well as pinch gestures to zoom in and out of content. The app is being developed further, and there are plans to add additional functionality in the future.

Release on popular demand

The ClickShare app was first demonstrated at ISE 2013 in Amsterdam. “This first public showing was intended more as a proof of concept rather than a demonstration,” explains Yoav Nir, Business Development Manager Collaboration. “But the reactions were so overwhelmingly positive that we decided to introduce the ClickShare app as soon as we could. People particularly like its user-friendliness and intuitive operation.”