Google’s Artificial Intelligence home entertainment hub – Google Home- has launched in the Australian market and is poised to try and shake up the competitive streaming space. The voice-operated connected device launched with inbuilt integration of streaming providers  Netflix and Stan, and has also partnered with Spotify.  The AI function allows users to control the streaming platforms via voice as a starting place and will be progressively rolling out third-party apps for added services.

An innovative movie-on-demand service is part of the $630 million New Bendigo Hospital development project. New Bendigo Hospital is the single largest regional development hospital project Victoria has ever undertaken and is a fusion of technology, progressive healthcare and new approaches to patient-centred wellness.

Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) will take centre stage at IBC2017, facing the industry scrutiny of fad or next wave of technology evolutionary force.

Australia’s leading AV and integrated technology trade show, Integrate, is returning to Melbourne, Victoria for its ninth year. The trade show and conference backed by InfoComm is a meeting ground for local and global technology brands to showcase solutions and products to AV technicians and corporate end users, meet with buyers, integrators and distributors, and celebrate the latest industry developments.

New research has forecast that by the end of 2020 there will be 260 million installed media devices attached to the internet all with the ability to deliver apps to TVs. The rapidly shifting way that we consume TV and screen content for home and work use is set to continue to accelerate with the uptake of these devices.

China is continuing to drive the lion’s share of customers and revenues to the online video industry in Asia Pacific. In new research, the forecast is that China will account for 85% of subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) customers and 78% of online video sector revenues by 2022.