Blocks is the one-stop-shop software for creating dynamic room experiences.
Display, control, interact — all in ONE SYSTEM.
PIXILAB Blocks® is new software for producing and managing rich experiences for museums, exhibitions, visitor centers and corporate presentations. A laptop is used to produce content, create interactive presentations, program the room experience and build mobile guides. Everything connects using a standard network managed by the Blocks server running on a Mac, Windows or Linux computer. The server then controls all displays, players, lighting, I/O-modules, beacons, mobile phones and other subsystems.
- Blocks and spots: Arrange content using our smart building blocks. Then drag those to the display spots. Quick and simple as that.
- IT meets AV: Blocks runs on a local server, using standard network and web technologies, plus industry-standard lighting and IoT protocols.
- Display small, medium and large: Play, schedule and synchronize video and audio across all sorts of displays and devices.
- It’s all connected: Being a control system, Blocks connects to your entire presentation environment.
- Media Files and Slideshows: Blocks handles all the basic signage stuff. Arrange images, audio, video, web pages, or any other block types described below, into scrollable sequences or slideshows with transitions and other behaviors.
- Synchronizer: Synchronize video playing across displays, or audio playing on one device (such as a mobile phone) with video and lighting effects playing on another (such as a large display or projection wall).
- Panorama: Bring your visitors into environments they can’t visit in person using an immersive, 360-degree panorama. Clickable hotspots move to new virtual rooms or trigger other actions in Blocks.
- 3D: Pick up objects, spin them around and watch them operate. The 3D block makes your hidden treasures come alive. Define interesting poses and animations. Hotspots trigger object-specific or system-wide actions.
- Live Video: Bring in live video streams originating from the internet or a local camera, computer or streaming device. Supports live streaming protocols such as RTSP, RTMP and HLS.
- Locator: Play content relevant to your current location, whether in a room, a building or a city. Furthermore, content can adapt to your language, age or other preferences.
- Controls: Click, touch, type, scroll and swipe. There’s a full complement of interactive control blocks for triggering local or system-wide actions, providing data input or just browsing around.
- The Player: Free PIXILAB Player software turns any Intel NUC or similar PC into a powerful multi-media player or interactive kiosk, driving one or more display devices and multiple sound channels. Connect hard-wired buttons. Power on/off player and display over the network.
- The Network: Blocks acts as the media hub, talking to players, displays, tablets, phones and I/O-devices over your network. Use the cellular (mobile) network for large-scale, outdoor applications. Encrypted connections, single-sign-on and other advanced security features are all there.
- Logic and Data: Blocks is fully programmable. From basic binding of buttons and sliders to devices, through the drag-and-drop Task builder, all the way to advanced, code-level APIs and device drivers. It can talk to an external CMS or databases in JSON, XML, SQL, REST or other protocols.