InfoComm Impressions: Day 2 June 15, 2013 by Super User ORLANDO – So my grand plans of spending most of the day poking around the Infocomm trade show hall got derailed by meetings and conversations that just kept happening on day 2, but I did manage to get a bit of a walk around the floor and develop some thoughts. 1 – We’re now at …
InfoComm Impressions: Day 1 June 13, 2013 by Super User It’s a little hot here, as in Oh My God How Do People Live Here? hot. But that’s typical in the years the pro-AV trade show comes here. Crowds look pretty good to my untrained eyes, though there are always guys at the backs of halls idly chatting and reading emails. I ended up in …
Project: Massive 24K Pixel Wall Lights Up At Christie HQ June 10, 2013 by Super User [vimeo id=”68076359″ width=”610″ height=”343″] This is very nice. A huge, jagged sweep of displays that span two walls of a renovated lobby at Christie Digital’s US HQ in Cypress, California. The visual technology giant’s new video wall uses 108 MicroTiles is a visual canvas that rolls up to a full native resolution of 23,760 x …
Project: Shiny Baubles Go Interactive With PERCH June 10, 2013 by Super User A new pop-up jewelry store in NYC’s SOHO district opened up the other night with a cool little interactive piece put together BaubleBar by the guys at PERCH. PERCH, who some will remember had a nice little shoe demo thingdoodle at DSE this winter, set up an overhead projection-driven product area that let guest on …
Hungary’s Dension Debuts Android Digital Signage Player June 10, 2013 by Super User A Hungarian company best-known for making pro audio devices for the auto market has moved into the digital signage space, developing a purpose-built media player that runs on Android. Dension Ltd has developed a system on chip playback device and it will start shipping with Signagelive’s HTML5 platform. Called CPX-1, the product is being launched …
Rise Vision’s Digital Signage Platform Now Working On Raspberry Pi June 10, 2013 by Super User The ongoing push to drive technology costs pretty much right out of digital signage continues, and now a developer has taken Toronto-based Rise Vision’s free, open source platform and got it running on the ultra low cost Raspberry Pi micro PCs. The developer has a post on the Rise Forum: I have a working, full …
Tiny Green PC Joins The Digital Signage ARM Race With Touch Player June 10, 2013 by Super User Tiny Green PC, which some of you might have known earlier as Fit PC, has released an Android media player it says can convert any touch screen with Android drivers into a fully functional Android tablet – the idea being that the tablet can be a touch enabled commercial monitor of pretty much any size. …
Want Great Creative On Your Digital Signs? How About A Renoir? June 10, 2013 by Super User In the right setting – particularly corporate – the idea of screens doubling as picture frames for great works of art seems pretty appealing. A Danish company, ArtPlayer, has a subscription digital sign feed that enables users to run fine art images in HD on their screens. The company has famous works from all the great …
Projects: MLS Fans Morph Into Virtual Bobblehead Dolls June 6, 2013 by Super User The sports marketing interactive agency MVP Interactive has been doing a fan engagement thing with BBVA Compass Bank and Major League Soccer’s Houston Dynamo that lets people see themselves as a virtual bobblehead dolls outfitted in Dynamo colors or wearing virtual face paint. The photos generated can then be shared with friends. Says a news release: …
EBay Making Some NYC Store Windows Shoppable June 6, 2013 by Super User EBay is switching on four shop windows in New York’s lower east side tomorrow as interactive browsing and payment gateways, letting fashion-hounds select, pay for and arrange same-day shipping of goods otherwise sold inside. The first of these “shoppable windows” goes live Saturday, for a month, at locations of Kate Spade Saturday, a new fashion …
