Signagelive Turns The Microphone Over To AI Bots To Talk Digital Signage, And It Sounds Credible September 19, 2024 by Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Viktor Petersson 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 Super User 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 …
This Digital Signage Software Firm Is Letting Customers Decide If They Want AI-based Functionality July 18, 2024 by Super User While a lot of digital signage CMS software and solutions companies are trying every which way to work AI into their marketing and PR messages, the CEO of a UK CMS firm has taken the interesting step of saying his company is dialing back its AI support and enabling customers to unilaterally switch off AI-backed …
Video Shows Shopping Experiences And Tech Being Tested For Ikea Stores in Madrid Experience Lab July 16, 2024 by Super User Here’s an interesting little quick-cutting video that shows what’s going on in a Madrid lab that’s testing technologies and store design ideas for global retailing giant Ikea. The Global eXperience Lab (xLab) has now been in operation for a year, testing concepts for the Ingka Group, by far the largest Ikea franchisee on the planet. …
Proto, Amazon Web Services Collaborate On Text To Hologram(ish) Displays For Retail July 11, 2024 by Super User Are there many retailers who will spend $50K+ USD for a giant LCD that shows products floating around on a transparent screen? I don’t think so, but some people in the cloud computing side of online retailing behemoth Amazon see something I just maybe don’t. Amazon Web Services and LA-based Proto have collaborated on what …
