LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 6, 2025--
Today, Planar, a global leader in visualization technology, and affiliate company OptiTrack, the worldwide leader in 3D tracking systems, will showcase next-level storytelling with the companies’ leading-edge roster of broadcast and media technologies at the 2025 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show.
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The companies will demonstrate the latest advancements in LED display and motion capture (mocap) technology, engaging audiences with dynamic, best-in-class image performance and unrivaled camera tracking accuracy. With a portfolio that spans solutions designed to deliver the highest performance for broadcasters, support remote events with ease and flexibility, set new standards in display management and track camera movement with unrivaled precision, Planar and OptiTrack reinforce their positions as leaders in deploying one-of-a-kind applications for customers in media and entertainment.
“Broadcast and media professionals today are demanding greater flexibility in their workflows than ever before,” said Tom Petershack, general manager of media and special projects at Planar. “We’re seeing a growing emphasis on future-proofing studios, particularly support for multi-camera workflow with finer pixel pitch LED and precision camera tracking. To meet that demand, we’ve expanded our industry-leading portfolio with innovative solutions that elevate the experience for broadcasters and viewers.”
Sophisticated Virtual Production Studio Designed to Produce Content Like Never Before
Attendees will experience a state-of-the-art virtual production volume designed for maximum flexibility with a multi-camera workflow. At the heart of the experience is a preview of a Planar ® CarbonLight ™ CLI Series LED video wall specially designed to deliver the highest performance and support multiple camera use in a fine pixel pitch. With a 1.5 millimeter pixel pitch, the video wall presents exceptional on-camera performance with high brightness, 240Hz frame rate, and advanced scan and refresh rates for seamless visual results. The product preview will be paired with a durable, 1.5 millimeter pixel pitch LED flooring.
Planar and OptiTrack’s studio will be enhanced with participation from the following broadcast innovators:
New OptiTrack Wired CinePuck Powers Precision Tracking for Modern Productions
NAB 2025 marks the debut of OptiTrack’s Wired CinePuck, an Ethernet-connected device allowing extended detection ranges and increased positional precision while eliminating dropped frames caused by external RF noise. Featuring customizable marker arrangements and high-powered LEDs, Wired CinePuck increases trackability in environments spanning broadcast, cinema, virtual production, in-camera visual effects, large or unique volumes and noisy radio settings. When paired with OptiTrack’s Motive software, users can fuse the new Wired CinePuck’s IMU with its optical data to achieve the highest quality tracking possible.
OptiTrack Prime X motion capture cameras will also be showcased in the studio, coupled with the latest version of OptiTrack’s Motive motion capture software.
Pioneering LED Video Walls Delivering Spectacular Presentation for Broadcast and Beyond
Planar will demonstrate unprecedented imagery with the upgraded Planar ® DirectLight ® Pro Series. With the addition of MicroLED technology, the cutting-edge family of fine pixel pitch LED video walls now delivers improved brightness, power consumption and overall video performance. The series’ new high brightness model features exceptional efficiency of power to brightness with 1,600 nits and 135 watts, making the solution ideal for maximum performance in high ambient light environments. The improved Planar DirectLight Pro Series also delivers a low power model featuring 500 nits of brightness with only 68 watts of power consumption. This option is ideal for applications with low ambient light conditions as well as energy-conscious customers.
Planar will also draw crowds with an S-shaped Planar ® CarbonLight ™ CLI Flex ™ Series LED video wall in a 0.9 millimeter pixel pitch, exhibiting the powerful role today’s curved LED display technology and creative deployments can play in helping combat viewer fatigue.
In addition, attendees will experience the latest in video wall technology developments and beautiful, high-resolution visualization with the Leyard ® VDS Series indoor LED displays. Featuring Chip on Board (COB) Technology with flip chip LEDs, Leyard VDS Series produces excellent contrast, viewing angles and brightness at an extremely attractive price point. The displays also set a new standard in durability with a ruggedized surface treatment and are fully encapsulated, offering customers a solution that is collision, scratch and static resistant as well as waterproof and dustproof at the display surface.
Planar will display the company’s strong leadership in deploying fixed and temporary event applications with a selection of lightweight LED video wall solutions delivering unrivaled image quality and flexibility as well as hassle-free setup and teardown. This includes the next-generation Planar CarbonLight CLI Series, Planar ® CarbonLight™ CLM Series and Leyard ® LN Series.
Attendees will have the opportunity to experience Planar’s advanced display monitoring and control features including pixel-level error detection with the Planar ® WallDirector™ Video Controller and Planar ® WallDirector ™ Cloud, which gives users more detailed insight into display health and performance both onsite and remotely. This means customers can identify when service or repair is needed, yielding simplified display management as well as a faster time to issue resolution.
Planar’s advanced display monitoring and control features will be on display on the new Planar ® DirectLight ® Slim Series, an innovative fine pixel pitch LED video wall solution well-suited for customers who require an ultra-thin and narrow display to accommodate space-constrained applications or specialized installations such as curved studio displays.
Explore the media and entertainment technologies designed to enhance broadcast presentation and storytelling at NAB 2025 in the Planar and OptiTrack Booth # N2629 April 6-9 in Las Vegas. For more information, visit www.planar.com or www.optitrack.com.
About Planar
Planar is a global leader in visualization technology, delivering best-in-class image performance for the world’s most demanding environments. From government, corporate and education institutions to broadcast studios, virtual production and extended reality stages, the world’s leading organizations use Planar’s broad selection of display solutions in applications ranging from control rooms to digital signage and simulation to large-scale visualization. Planar is the global market leader in narrow pixel pitch LED displays, fixed LED video display installations and LED displays for control rooms (Futuresource 2024). Founded in 1983, Planar is headquartered in Oregon, USA with offices and manufacturing facilities in Oregon, Europe and Asia.
About OptiTrack
OptiTrack is a worldwide leader in 3D tracking technology, offering cutting-edge solutions renowned for accuracy and reliability. With a comprehensive range of high-performance cameras, software and accessories, OptiTrack supports a diverse group of users ranging from entertainment and biomechanics to research and ground truth robotics. From capturing the subtle nuances of human movement to tracking complex interactions in virtual environments, OptiTrack’s technology empowers users to track, analyze and visualize motion data with unprecedented detail. Whether it’s providing training or offering guidance on system optimization, OptiTrack is your partner in pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, empowering innovation across the globe.
Planar and OptiTrack to showcase the latest in LED display and camera tracking technology for broadcast at media at NAB 2025, Booth #N2629.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Israel struck a hospital in northern Gaza early Sunday, forcing patients to evacuate as attacks intensified.
The pre-dawn strike hit Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, after Israel issued an evacuation warning, according to Gaza's ministry of health. One patient, a girl, died during the evacuation because medical staff were unable to provide urgent care, it said.
The hospital is run by the Diocese of Jerusalem, which condemned the attack in a statement, saying it happened on “Palm Sunday, the start of the Holy Week, the most sacred week of the Christian year.” Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem.
Israel said it struck a command and control center used by Hamas at the hospital to plan and execute attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers, without providing evidence. It said prior to the strike, steps were taken to mitigate harm, including issuing warnings, and using precise munitions and aerial surveillance.
In a statement Sunday, Hamas denied the allegations that the hospital was used by militants and called for an independent international investigation.
Hours later, a separate strike on a car in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, killed at least seven people — six brothers and their friend — according to staff at the morgue of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the bodies. The brothers, of whom the youngest was 10, were buried in Deir al-Balah.
Their father, Ibrahim Abu Mahadi, said his sons worked for a charity that distributes food to Palestinians in Gaza. "For what sin were they killed?” he said.
Associated Press reporters saw the mangled, bloodied car after the attack as relatives wept over the bodies.
Other strikes in the southern city of Khan Younis killed at least three people, according to staff at Nasser Hospital, which received the bodies.
The Israeli military also said they targeted another command and control center in the area of Deir al-Balah when many Hamas militants were present and planning to carry out an attack against Israeli soldiers. This was not connected to the strike on the car in the same area, which the army said it was looking into.
In the last 24 hours, Gaza’s health ministry said that 11 people were killed and more than 100 wounded.
The war started after Hamas killed 1,200 people during its Oct. 7, 2023, attack, mostly civilians, and took 250 people captive, many of whom were eventually freed in ceasefire deals.
More than 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza have so far been killed in Israel’s retaliatory offensive, according to the health ministry there, which does not differentiate between combatants and civilians in its count but says more than half of the dead are women and children.
The strikes came hours after Israel's defense minister said that military activity would rapidly expand across Gaza and that people would have to evacuate from “fighting zones.” Israel also announced Saturday the completion of the Morag corridor, cutting off the southern city of Rafah from the rest of Gaza, with the military saying it would soon expand “vigorously” in most of the small coastal territory.
Israeli authorities have vowed to pressure Hamas to release the remaining 59 hostages, 24 believed to be alive, and accept proposed new ceasefire terms.
The director of Al-Ahli Hospital, Dr. Fadel Naim, said they were warned of the attack before it was struck. In a post on X, he wrote that the emergency room, pharmacy and surrounding buildings were severely damaged, impacting more than 100 patients and dozens of medical staff.
The health ministry said the strike destroyed the ward for outpatients and laboratories and damaged the emergency ward.
Images of the aftermath showed the hospital's caved-in cement roof, surrounded by debris. Dr. Munir al-Boursh, the health ministry's director general called the evacuation frightening, with people carried out into the streets in hospital beds.
“It was very scary for the patients ... we did not know what happened,” he said. The health ministry said patients have since been transferred to three other hospitals in Gaza City, including Shifa, Al-Quds and the Red Crescent Field Hospital.
The aid group Medical Aid for Palestinians said this was the fifth attack on the hospital since the war began.
Medical facilities often come under fire in wars, but combatants usually depict such incidents as accidental or exceptional, since hospitals enjoy special protection under international law. In its 18-month campaign in Gaza, Israel has stood out by carrying out an open campaign on hospitals, besieging and raiding them, some several times, as well as hitting multiple others in strikes while accusing Hamas of using them as cover for its fighters.
Last month Israel struck Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis city, the largest in southern Gaza, killing two people and wounding others and causing a large fire, the territory’s health ministry said. The facility was overwhelmed with dead and wounded when Israel ended the ceasefire with a surprise wave of airstrikes.
Magdy reported from Cairo.
This report has been corrected to show the bodies of the killed Palestinians were to Red Crescent Field Hospital, not the Kuwait Field Hospital.
A relative mourn over the body of Abdullah Habbash before his funeral, along with six brothers from the Abu Mahadi family, all members of a Palestinian charity organization linked to Hamas, who were killed earlier in an Israeli army strike on the car they were traveling in, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)"
Relatives mourn over the body of Abdullah Habbash before his funeral, along with the bodies of six brothers from the Abu Mahadi family, all members of a Palestinian charity organization linked to Hamas, who were killed earlier in an Israeli army strike on the car they were traveling in, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)"
Relatives mourn over the body of Abdullah Habbash before his funeral, along with the bodies of six brothers from the Abu Mahadi family, all members of a Palestinian charity organization linked to Hamas, who were killed earlier in an Israeli army strike on the car they were traveling in, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)"
Palestinians look at the wreckage of a car struck earlier by an Israeli army attack that killed at least seven people, six of them the Abu Mahadi brothers, in the outskirts of Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinians look at the wreckage of a car struck earlier by an Israeli army attack that killed at least seven people, six of them the Abu Mahadi brothers, in the outskirts of Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
The wreckage of a car struck earlier by an Israeli army attack that killed at least seven people, six of them the Abu Mahadi brothers, sits on the outskirts of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Relatives mourn over the bodies of Abdullah Habbash, along with the bodies of six brothers from the Abu Mahadi family, all members of a Palestinian charity organization linked to Hamas, who were killed earlier in an Israeli army strike on the car they were traveling in, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)"
Palestinians pray over the bodie of Abdullah Habbash, along with the bodies of six brothers from the Abu Mahadi family, all members of a Palestinian charity organization linked to Hamas, who were killed earlier in an Israeli army strike on the car they were traveling in, during their funeral in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)"
Staff inspects a building of the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist hospital after it was targeted by an Israeli army strike late Saturday following a warning issued by the army to evacuate patients, in Gaza City, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
The outpatient and laboratory wards of the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist hospital are seen after being hit by an Israeli army strike late Saturday, following a warning issued by the army to evacuate patients, in Gaza City, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
The outpatient and laboratory wards of the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist hospital are seen after being hit by an Israeli army strike late Saturday, following a warning issued by the army to evacuate patients, in Gaza City, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Palestinians carry for burial the bodies of Abdullah Habbash and six brothers from the Abu Mahadi family, members of a Palestinian charity organization linked to Hamas, who were killed earlier in an Israeli army strike on the car they were traveling in, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
The outpatient and laboratory wards of the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist hospital are seen after being hit by an Israeli army strike late Saturday, following a warning issued by the army to evacuate patients, in Gaza City, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
The outpatient and laboratory wards of the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist hospital are seen after being hit by an Israeli army strike late Saturday, following a warning issued by the army to evacuate patients, in Gaza City, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
A relative mourn over the body of Abdullah Habbash before his funeral, along with six brothers from the Abu Mahadi family, all members of a Palestinian charity organization linked to Hamas, who were killed earlier in an Israeli army strike on the car they were traveling in, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)"
The outpatient and laboratory wards of the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist hospital are seen after being hit by an Israeli army strike late Saturday, following a warning issued by the army to evacuate patients, in Gaza City, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Khalid Ahmad holds a poster of his 17-year-old son, Waleed, who died in an Israeli prison, that reads in Arabic, "The hero prisoner Martyr, mercy and eternity for our righteous Martyrs," in the West Bank town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
A woman holds a sign as people take part in a protest demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, April 5,2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Palestinians wait for donated food at a distribution center in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinian children receive donated food at a distribution center in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Displaced Palestinians flee from east to west of Gaza City after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders in the area, Friday April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Displaced Palestinians flee from east to west of Gaza City after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders in the area, Friday April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Two boys sit on a mattress as they ride on their family car while s fleeing from east to west of Gaza City after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders in the area, Friday April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
