DOOH-Focused AI Computer Vision Start-up Alfi Adds CMS Partner Amidst Legal Issues February 14, 2022 by Super User I’d put this in the category of rabbit-holes one can sometimes end up down when looking into something – in this case an AI computer vision startup serving DOOH companies that has found itself in a post-IPO class-action lawsuit. I was doing a never-heard-of-them look into a company called Alfi because a press release out …
New Walmart Store Design Builds In Interactive Merchandising Displays January 28, 2022 by Super User The biggest physical retailer in the world has designed digital displays into its newest take on a store look and feel, with flat panel displays and contextual, triggered messaging part of large form merchandising displays. The tech-centric publication Fast Company got a preview from Walmart of the store design it is testing and tweaking – …
Quebec Restaurant Chain Starts Deploying Touchless Kiosk Screens January 25, 2022 by Super User The pandemic has triggered a lot of discussion about the merits of touchless technologies over physical touchscreens, but there’s not a lot of evidence that touchless is being adopted. The core argument is around how touchless removes the health safety risk of physically touching a screen to do things like orders, payments and information look-ups. …
Fun Interactive DOOH Campaign Takes Dark Turn With Passersby January 24, 2022 by Super User The province of Quebec’s auto insurance arm ran an interactive, gesture-driven Digital OOH campaign that started out as fun but then turned very dark about the dangers of jaywalking on city streets. The Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec campaign traces back to 2018 but I missed it first time around. A video has been …
CMS Software Start-Up Raydiant Acquires Dutch AI Computer Vision Spin-Out SightCorp January 13, 2022 by Super User More consolidation news today in the digital signage ecosystem, with word that San Francisco start-up Raydiant has acquired Amsterdam start-up SightCorp, giving the US CMS software firm in-house computer vision capabilities. Raydiant, which describes itself as an in-location experience management platform (that’s a new one!), also gets more of a footprint into the EU, where …
Ultraleap Raises $82M From Investors To Drive R&D, Sales For Touchless Interactive Tech November 17, 2021 by Super User Ultraleap, the UK/US tech firm that specializes in touchless interactive interfaces, has announced a big $82 million Series D investment round that will help drive R&D efforts and a push into target vertical markets. The company, which came out of the merger of Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion, specializes in mid-air hand tracking and haptic feedback …
WaitTime Expands Crowd Analytics Service Into Mega-Malls In Cisco-Intel Partnership November 17, 2021 by Super User The load-balancing outcomes the Detroit start-up WaitTime brings to sports and entertainment venues has always seemed like a smart play, but I am not sure about the company’s new partnership with tech giants Cisco and Intel for places like giant shopping malls. The three have “collaborated to deliver an artificial intelligence (AI) solution that provides …
TransitScreen Rebrands Its Visualized Transport Info Platform As Actionfigure November 16, 2021 by Super User The Washington, DC start-up that has focused on real-time public display dashboards for mass transport and mobility options in big cities has rebranded itself from TransitScreen to Actionfigure. Our Actionfigure rebrand brings all of our software solutions together under a single name with a unified look and feel, the company says in an email blast today. …
Uniguest’s M&A Flurry Continuing; Adds Volara’s Interactive Voice Platform To Solution Set November 3, 2021 by Super User Nashville-based Uniguest is continuing its acquisitive ways – with the “digital engagement technology” firm announcing of Volara, an NYC firm specializing in voice-based engagement software. Already managing more than 20,000 voice assistant solutions at over 400 locations, says the announcement, Volara now launches Uniguest’s voice technology division, positioning the company to bring voice-based contactless engagement …
Samsung’s New The Wall Promo Video Does Killer Job Explaining Tech With Visuals November 2, 2021 by Super User Manufacturers who send me written PR material that goes on and on, and on, about the technical specs of their display product too often seem to forget that what they sell is a visual product. They want to tell me in written material, instead of show me in pix or, better, in video! So it …
