Robotic Food Prep Kiosks Might Be New Market For Menu Displays, Order Screens July 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes QSR and fast casual restaurants have been early and very active adopters of digital signage technologies because of their ability to display and update pricing and menu options quickly and easily. Now there’s an interesting new dynamic developing in the food services industry – autonomous food prep and serving kiosks. I wrote the other day …
Private Plane Flying A Deep-Faked And Young Again Interactive Diego Maradona Display July 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes I am guessing people who are mad about Argentinian footballing will be thrilled with the notion of a private plane bringing fans a deep fake’d visual of legendary player Diego Maradona, but there may be as many or more people who find the whole thing odd. A fintech company, Give and Get, has equipped a …
LA Startup Toli 360 Marketing Interactive Try-On Mirror Displays … For Home Use July 6, 2022 by Dave Haynes A small LA start-up called Toli 360 is marketing interactive full length bedroom mirrors as AI-driven shopping malls that would allow consumers to source and try on clothing at home – borrowing on what has mostly been a concept in retail for the last few years. While there have indeed been flagship stores and stores-of-the-future …
Sharp NEC’s New NaviSense AI Platform More About Actionable Insights Than Instant Content Triggers June 30, 2022 by Dave Haynes When I was at InfoComm earlier this month, I had a quick walk-thru and chat at the Sharp NEC booth and asked, among a few things, about a new computer vision platform called NaviSense that was being demonstrated. Was this, I asked, an evolved version of the ALP platform developed and marketed by NEC just …
Here Are Details And Video Of That Stunning Lenticular LED Wall At Rebuilt Laguardia Airport June 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes If you get past the sheer wonder of New York’s LaGuardia Airport going from quite awful to quite nice, one of the true highlights of Delta’s brand new Terminal C is a grand-scale fine pitch LED mural that welcomes passengers into the departure hall. It was designed to borrow on the concept and delivery of …
Microsoft’s Azure Face AI Platform Phasing Out Emotion, Identity Measurements June 23, 2022 by Dave Haynes Microsoft is phasing out some key capabilities of its Azure Face audience detection and measurement system, such as identifying age range and gender and the emotional state of viewers. These are commonly marketed capabilities of the computer vision companies active in the digital signage sector, touted as ways to understand the characteristics of people who …
Delta Air Lines Turning On Its First Parallel Reality Display At DTW Before Month Is Done June 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes Delta Air Lines plans to switch on what it calls the first-ever Parallel Reality display on Concourse A at Detroit’s airport at the end of this month – offering a way for up to 100 people to see content personalized to each viewer, at the same time. Huh? What? The technology was developed by the …
Smart Retail 2.0: Screens Are Key To Post-COVID Retailing June 13, 2022 by HenrikAndersson GUEST POST: HENRIK ANDERSSON, INSTORESCREEN Online shopping and mobile technologies were already compelling a lot of bricks and mortar retailers to start digitally transforming the way their stores looked, worked and were experienced by customers – but the many impacts of the global pandemic put those plans in much faster motion. Services like curbside pickup …
Sharp/NEC Repackage AI Audience Measurement Platform As NaviSense June 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes One of the announcements a bit lost by me in the InfoComm PR blizzard last week was Sharp/NEC revisiting and re-packaging its AI/computer vision IP as NaviSense. The product is positioned as “a cost-effective computer vision solution for gathering anonymous customer attributes using off-the-shelf or existing camera sources and processing them through a variety of …
Generative Video Wall Art Reveals Paintings Brushstroke By Brushstroke May 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes Industry veteran Jim Nista sold his content and coding company Insteo to Almo a few years ago, and after spending some time working within the distribution company, he went back out on his own and is focused again on developing creative for digital signage projects. This is a really nice take on generative art for …
