HP takes the wraps off VantagePoint, a 132-inch touchscreen for businesses

Leading PC maker Hewlett-Packard has unveiled a massive 11 foot-by-7 foot touchscreen, dubbed the t, to smoothen interactions for businesses and retailers. The enormous display is made by arranging six HP LD4730G Micro-Bezel Digital Signage monitors in a 3x2 grid. The system is mounted to a large aluminum frame and it runs on a single AMD video card. Amazingly, the touchscreen display is capable of accepting up to 32 simultaneous touch points at a time for multi-person, multi-touch interactive applications.

HP VantagePoint

HP has designed the VantagePoint touchscreen as a business solution. The company aims to sell out the product among businesses, enterprises, colleges and control rooms for corporate information technology professionals, military and security forces. All components of the enormous display are designed and rated for extended 24x7 indoors functioning. HP avails VantagePoint in both standalone and built-in implementations.

Each LD4730G Micro-bezel Digital Signage monitor of system has a display panel protected with a layer of Corning Gorilla Glass. It prevents the whole display from getting damaged. Moreover, each monitor offers brightness required for use in bright and sunny areas. So the VantagePoint can smoothly display contents even outdoors. The infrared-based touch overlay ensures precision touch interaction as well.

The modular design of the display helps users instantly change a panel if it dies. It will take only a few minutes to replace a single panel of the massive touchscreen. If you have a screwdriver and a new display, you can fix the problem quite immediately. In the past, similar display needed days and weeks to be tested and repaired. It is here the HP VantagePoint will largely help businesses in promotions.

HP has itself made use of the VantagePoint in five of its control rooms to run its network operations. According to Carlos Montalvo, vice president of the innovation program at HP, the highly interactive screens could be implemented as centralized displays in control rooms of security forces and disaster management crews. Security officials can avail real-time images, videos and other updates of the security preparations on this display.

Price of the VantagePoint is, of course, hefty. You need to pay $125,000 to get a unit of the gigantic touchscreen. However, when compared with similar business solutions out in stores, this price tag is slimmer, indeed. There is no doubt that the high price will deter schools class rooms from replacing the traditional chalkboards with the VantagePoint displays. HP looks forward for product designers, crisis management crews and fashion designers as the possible customers of the display.

You can pipe content into the display through satellite and cable feeds as well. Moreover, you can download and stream contents from the web and other sources like DVR of DCD players. Beyond all, you can stun your customers with popular games like Angry Birds on this mammoth display.

Via: VentureBeat