Industry Vets Nista, Arnett Launch MOTV Experiential Creative Agency October 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes A couple of well-known industry guys have teamed up to launch an experiential design agency focused on generative AI app development, generative art, and creative services that leverage data to drive immersive experiences. MOTV reflects a partnership by LA-based creative and coding vet Jim Nista and Toronto’s Michael Arnett, who has a long history of …
Fans Could See Themselves As Adele On Giant LED Screen During Singer’s Munich Concert Residency October 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes Singer Adele’s month-long run at a pop-up concert venue in Munich this summer attracted a lot of attention for the sheer scale of the very wide LED backdrop, but the show also had a clever social media/AR thing happening that allowed fans to have their faces swapping out the star performer’s face. They did that …
Here’s Something Far Closer To The Idea Of A Holographic Display, And The Company Doesn’t Use The H Word September 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is far, far, far closer to being a hologram than most of the companies marketing their two-dimensional display tech as holographic, but even though the visual is genuinely three-dimensional, the company doing it doesn’t even drop the H word. This is a 3D Volumetric display developed by the Adelaide, Australia tech lab Voxon, with …
Signagelive Turns The Microphone Over To AI Bots To Talk Digital Signage, And It Sounds Credible September 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes Hat tip to Guy Campos at AV Magazine for pointing me to this … Signagelive CEO Jason Cremins, who with his CTO Marc Benson has a long history of being early adopters of emerging tech, has monkeyed around with some AI tools and come up with a podcast that is built around material from a …
Polish Media Company Mashes Up Sensors For What It Calls AI Screen September 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Polish digital OOH media company Screen Network has started branding its big media facade on the main entry to an urban shopping centre as AI Screen, referencing how it is using numerous sensors to shape and trigger content, and also measure audiences. There is nothing overly imaginative or new about outcomes like peddling ice …
Cyprus-based DSPL Switches To Windows, Shrinks Camera With V2 Of Analytics-Driven Digital Signage Solution September 12, 2024 by Dave Haynes Digital signage companies are everywhere, and it was interesting to find a PR email recently from a company called DSPL, which is based in Cyprus. If geography leaves you in blank stare mode (that’s me for anything having to do with the financial market), Cyrpus is an island in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, west of …
OAAA Writes In “Human Approval” For Digital OOH Ads To Reduce Risk Of “Problematic Content” August 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes This may hit industry veterans as a forehead-slappingly obvious thing to do, but the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) has written in the human approval of ads before they go up on screens as a best practice in an amended version of its Digital Billboard Security Guidelines. Those guidelines now include a …
Local Miami Government Funds Test Of Real-Time, AI-based American Sign Language Messaging On Airport Digital Signage August 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Miami-Dade regional government is investing $100,000 into a UK company that will trial AI-driven text to sign language content on digital signage screens around Miami International Airport. Signapse’s platform takes real-time data from airport information systems, converts it to text, and that text is converted to overlays or picture-in-picture windows on screens that have …
Blue Screens Of Death Invade Planet Earth August 6, 2024 by Vpetersson Guest Post: Viktor Petersson, Screenly It’s Saturday morning. Emergency services in Alaska are knocked out, meaning you can’t even get through to 911. Atlanta, Delta’s hub, is full of people sleeping wherever they can, and the queue to the help desk is more than a mile long. Thousands of flights are grounded, and there are …
Taco Bell Adding Voice AI Ordering To Hundreds Of US Drive-Thrus August 1, 2024 by Dave Haynes The owner of Taco Bell says it has targeted hundreds of its US stores for the implementation of voice AI-based ordering in the drive thrus. Yum! Brands says its Voice AI technology is already in more than 100 Taco Bell U.S. drive-thrus across 13 states – using it to “enhance back-of-house operations for team members …
