Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. We have Chris Stevens, the general manager of Video Reality here with is today. Chris. First of all, pleasure mate, and you're acquaintance, so tell us a little bit about you and your company, Video Reality. Well, thanks for having me. I'm Chris Stevens. I am the general manager here and we are Video Reality. We are an audio video design integration company
located here in Oklahoma City. We design complex audio video systems for K twelve schools, universities, tech schools, commercial, corporate, business, and house worship. Well, it sounds like you have a lot of smart people there, because this sounds like it's something that's way over my pay grade. But I have seen some of your work and it's very very impressive. Just don't ask me how it works. But anyway that we leave that up to you
and to the folks who will be operating it. But my goodness sake, this is the way of the future. This is the way people are sharing information and learning, and it's something that really captures the attention absolutely, and the fact that you don't know it is is why I stay employed. So I appreciate you not learning. Where'd you get the idea for this, Chris.
Well, So, we've been in business since nineteen ninety six, started out on audio and video systems repairs, and it's just progressed over the years. You know, when you have a skill and a knowledge set that other people don't have, it's almost a moral obligation for you to help those around you. So we have been helping mostly schools and churches do the things that they don't know how to do. Well, you know what, I've seen this in a handful of schools, but we could sure probably put a few
more in the classrooms. And you're also involved in a way to make that happen for a couple of local classrooms. How do we do this here? We've got a little contest going on. Yeah, So basically we want to introduce ourselves to the schools that we have not met before and and reinforce the relationships that we have already. But basically what we're doing is we're offering a
free smartboard to the school that that votes the most. Essentially to get get active, get your get your students active, get your teachers active, and start placing your votes if you haven't already. But whoever gets the most votes, we're going to give a free smart board will come out. We'll do the installation for you, review it for you, do a little demo and
and education on it, and get you guys going. Chris, this is a wonderful idea and it's a great way to get to some of these schools acquainted with the modern way of how instruction is going to be, not only in the president but for years to come. Now, we have a little
place on our website. It's Bartlesville Radio dot com. So if you have a school that either you're an instructor, you're a student or parent, you've got kids, or you're just a big fan of your school you wanted to do well in your community, I advise you to go there, read up a little bit about the contest, and vote and vote and vote. That's the way you're going to get one of these in your classrooms. This is going to be great. What's the first thing that comes to mind when you're
doing this demonstration? Now, what do you notice? Is it the big aha moment that you're getting from instructors when they see this turn on and come to life. Yeah? Absolutely. I think interactive displays have been in classrooms for a long time used to be a whiteboard with an interactive projector plunky and cumbersome and kind of slow to react, And today's technologies are just so much smooth. There's so much more responsive. There's so much interactivity, so many
different lesson types and ways to get kids involved. And I think teachers, I absolutely think teachers have an aha moment of oh goodness, I could use this for this, I could use it for that application. We can use this for sports, we can use this for getting kids to read better, to participate in classrooms more frequently. There's just there's so many different benefits in so many different ways that these smart displays can be used for interactivity and collaboration.
And I don't think there's a teacher out there that doesn't have that aha moment of oh man, I can certainly use this for this purpose. Well, the engagement rate's got to go up a few thousand percent because the student doesn't have a chance to get bored. It's constantly engaging, and it makes for longer attention span, and sometimes you got to fight for that, especially in the middle school ranks. I'm a father of seven, I kind of know how that goes, I'm a father of four, so absolutely, you
know we're not going to engage. Keep it moving, keep the information coming, and as long as it's popping, it's there and they will pay attention. This is a nice little breakthrough. And like we said, folks, this can be in your school too. And all you have to do is go to our website Bartintvielle Radio dot com and click on the icon there and it'll tell you how to vote, tell you a little bit about the company and how this could be in your school of your choice. And once again
you're over there in the Oklahoma City area. If folks don't particularly have a school or anything, but they have a business and they want to get a hold of you to see how maybe it could benefit their business, how do we go about contacting you, Chris, you know, just pick up the phone and give us a call. Our phone number is four zero five seven two one three seven six four, or you can visit us at videoreality dot com. Either way. But yes, we can help businesses. And we
don't just do small boards. We do every form of audio video. We do digital signage, we do conference room audio and video systems, we do house of worship sanctuary, performing arts centers, any form of audio or video communication that you could possibly need, we can accommodate it. Wow, that sounds amazing seeing as believing so chances are you going to get a few phone calls and a few eyeballs on your website too. Hey, Chris, I want to thank you very much for being with us, and thank you for
putting out this wonderful contest so that the kids can be the winners. Absolutely, thank you for getting the word out and we appreciate the partnership