BBC Explainer On Projection Mapping Buckingham Palace June 8, 2012 by Dave Haynes If you like 3D projection mapping – beaming interesting visuals on to surfaces like churches, castles and opera houses – but were wondering how the hell they do it, this BBC piece about the Buckingham Palace job earlier this week is useful. It describes how a small London company, Treatment, turned the palace into social …
Guest Post: Re-Thinking The Digital Signage Approach June 8, 2012 by Michael Arnett Those within digital signage supplier circles know how easy it is to be critical of doomed projects. “Too many stakeholders,” we cry. “Poor implementations,” we roar. “No content strategy,” we howl. “The wrong people doing the wrong things,” we sigh. And so it goes … From the inside looking out, we claim to have the …
Video: Visix Does Preview of New Pots And Pans For InfoComm June 7, 2012 by Dave Haynes [youtube id=”_Qpl2gLRcWY” width=”600″ height=”350″] The Atlanta-area software company Visix did a nice video ahead of InfoComm last year and they’ve banged out another one this year. I liked the one last year more because it was a little more personal, following President Sean Matthews around the offices to demo things. But the 2012 version is …
And How About $70 For A PC On A Stick? June 7, 2012 by Dave Haynes Many of the little PC and tablet gadgets coming out of Taiwan and China can only be found and ordered off websites that look profoundly dodgy, but this $70 Android 4.0 PC on a stick is up and ready to pre-order off Amazon, which I have heard of. Geeky Gadgets and a few other tech …
AMD, Seneca Data Add To The Teeny PC Parade June 7, 2012 by Dave Haynes Announcements are coming out all the time about increasingly small PCs – the smallest, of course, being those teeny Raspberry Pi units from the UK. But the flip side of those research lab efforts are major companies producing diminutive but powerful boxes. Engadget has a tech blogger at the big Computex trade show in Taiwan this …
Will 3D Sell More Burgers? June 6, 2012 by Dave Haynes We have a client in the QSR industry that does digital menu-boards and had the resources and smarts, early on, to actually ask customers what they thought about it. Without going into it much, at all, the feedback to using digital’s capabilities to animate and promote stuff did not resonate with people. They didn’t to …
Arsenal Plans To Pour On the Content At InfoComm June 6, 2012 by Dave Haynes Denys Lavigne and the other folks at Arsenal Media will just about have the InfoComm floor to themselves next week when it comes to creative content services, which is a pretty nice situation given that floor will be filled with pro AV people who know how to get content to screens but are generally stumped …
Langdon Joins Avnet June 6, 2012 by Dave Haynes I have known Sean Langdon for the last three years or so and pretty quickly developed two key impressions. Very tall. Really sharp. He has been doing business development for Horizon Display – which can handle all kinds of interactive touch hardware and software. But Langdon rang me up today to let me know this …
Web’s Open Standards Body Taking Detailed Look At Digital Signage June 5, 2012 by Dave Haynes The body that somewhat guides the development of open standards for the web is taking a serious look at web-based digital signage, and running a special workshop about it next week, in conjunction with the Digital Signage Japan trade show. W3C, aka the World Wide Web Consortium, says this about the June 14-15 event in greater …
Buckingham Palace Gets Projection Mapped, As Madness Plays On Roof June 5, 2012 by Dave Haynes The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations in London had a big moment last night with a concert and some great projection mapping work on Buckingham Palace – probably among the last buildings you might expect to get that treatment. I just caught a snippet on the news and it showed Madness, the old ska/pop band from …
