Display Technology

Galt Museum, University of Nebraska State Museum deploy Videotel solutions

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March 29, 2021

The Galt Museum & Archives, located in Lethbridge, Canada, and the University of Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska, recently deployed Videotel Digital's Wave-to-Play gesture control solution, according to a press release.

"Because of COVID, we had to act quickly to find a solution that would activate both video and audio," Brad Brown, exhibit designer and fabricator, Galt Museum & Archives, said in the release. "We chose Videotel Digital's Wave-to-Play and now use it in both our Discovery Hall where visitors can automatically trigger the welcome orientation, as well as for our Kainai Arbor exhibit so visitors can learn more about the exhibit without having to physically touch a screen."

"Our exhibits are informative and educational geared toward families with younger kids and offer a lot of hands-on activities. Previously, all electronic kiosk exhibits have been actuated with pushbuttons or touchscreens, but when the pandemic hit it forced us to deal with new safety and disinfection protocols," John Nielsen, graphics specialist, project coordinator, University of Nebraska State Museum, said in the release. "Videotel Digital's Wave-to-Play devices are a perfect solution combined with their VP71XD media players and they are easy to set up. We have two Wave-to-Play devices on monitors that we formerly used as touchscreens."