Systems Integration Asia – April-May 2018

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Holovis Secures Multi-million Investment


HONGKONG: Holovis, a creator of
transformave, mul-sensory immersive
experiences and new technologies for the
Enterprise, Entertainment, Museum and
Simulaon sectors, has announced a mul-
million dollar minority investment in the
company by Hong Kong listed corporaon
Road King Investment and Asset
Management Group Limited.


Established in 2004, Holovis currently has
110 employees with its head office in central
UK, as well as innovaon centres in Mayfair
London, Shanghai China and Orlando USA.


“This significant investment will allow
Holovis to grow more strategically,
parcularly in the Far East, whilst
maintaining our market leadership posion
in delivering unique, innovaon-led
soluons for our global clients,” said Holovis
CEO Stuart Hetherington. “With Road King's
backing we will accelerate our development
of immersive, mixed reality soluons,
tailored to specific market applicaons in
the enterprise, entertainment, museum and
simulaon sectors, including rolling out our
excing, market-defining Extended-
Experience augmented and mixed reality
technology plaorm,” he elaborated. “We
will also be deepening and extending our
innovaon pipeline bringing new and
excing products to market in the next 12
months. With our new partner investor, our
Far East operaon will also significantly
expand across all market sectors, as well as
integrang Holovis experiences into Road
King's exisng and new real estate projects
they own and operate across China.”


Road King has expanded its investment
division's focus to bring together specialist
technology companies such as Holovis, to
work alongside other complimentary
businesses within their porolio to leverage
the synergies and opportunies this new
muldisciplinary group can now deliver
across China.

Says William Zen, Chairman of Road King:
"This partnership with Holovis, along with
our other technology investments, brings a
unique capability to Road King's vision and
strategy in designing and building the next-
generaon of visitor aracons and public
venue experiences in the Far East. This
investment also supports and underpins
Holovis and Road King's plans to expand
into the Chinese Enterprise and Simulaon
markets, which are both showing strong
year-on-year growth opportunies.”

http://www.holovis.com
http://www.roadking.com.hk

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HDBaseT Alliance


Becomes Afliate


of Worlddidac


INTERNATIONAL: The HDBaseT Alliance,
the cross-industry group tasked with
promong and advancing the HDBaseT
standard, has become an affiliate of
Worlddidac, the global trade associaon
dedicated to the development of educaon

worldwide. As an affiliate, the HDBaseT
Alliance will work closely with Worlddidac to
promote the most suitable audiovisual
infrastructure for the classrooms of today
and the future.

HDBaseT is a standard for the transmission
of audio, video, Ethernet, USB, controls and
power, over the same category cable, for up
to 100m/328. It simplifies installaons and
opmizes the distribuon of content for a
beer user experience. As today's
classrooms increasingly rely on technology
to educate the future generaons, the
HDBaseT standard, with thousands of
products in the market from more than 200
AV manufacturers, is the enabling soluon
that is easy to install, maintain, and operate.

Worlddidac works on all educaon sectors,
in all countries, and with the relevant
naonal associaons. It is the only global
associaon dedicated to the development of
educaon worldwide, creang value for all.
Worlddidac members are manufacturers of
educaonal materials, dealers, distributors,
internaonal associaons, governmental
instuons, schools, universies and private
entrepreneurs working in educaon business
at all levels and in all fields.

“HDBaseT is the obvious choice for the
audiovisual needs of the classroom of today
and tomorrow,” said Ariel Sobelman,
President of the HDBaseT Alliance. “It brings
a clean, cluer-free soluon, giving our
educaonal professionals more
opportunies without the usual technical
challenges. We are excited to work with
Worlddidac.”

Says Danny Gauch, Director General of
Worlddidac: “We are confident, that this
cooperaon is highly beneficial for the
members of our associaons. Together with
our members and partners around the
globe, we create one of the world's leading
business forums specifically for the
promoon of trade and investment within
the educaon market worldwide.”

http://www.hdbaset.org
http://www.worlddidac.org
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William Zen, Chairman of Road King, and Stuart Hetherington, CEO
of Holovis in a handshake during the occasion.

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