Experiential In Airports Is Not Just About Big Dollar Creative: Exhibit A December 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s the first of two very different stories about experiential digital signage at a big airport – neither of them having anything to do with big-dollar creative or complicated technologies. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is, as anyone who has used it will confirm, crazy-busy – with some 286,000 passengers and roughly 2,100 arrivals and departures …
Wallace & Gromit Christmas Show Projection-Mapped On Battersea Chimneys In London December 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes The studio that produces the animated stop motion comedy film series Wallace & Gromit teamed up with arguably the most famous tenant of the renovated and revived Battersea Power Station in London for a holiday season projection mapping show that runs until New Year’s. The Christmas tree projection on two of the building’s iconic chimneys …
Oldie But (Very) Goodie: LCD-Based Video Wall Array At Birmingham, AL Airport December 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes Just about everything covered here involves new or updated technology and new deployments, but here is something that’s been in place for more than a decade but remains noteworthy. It is a mosaic LCD video array at Birmingham Shuttlesworth International Airport in Alabama, described as using depictions of movement, migration and marching from different eras …
Video: Here’s A Volumetric Display That’s Much Closer To The Pop Culture Idea Of Holograms November 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes I natter away here when specialty display companies call their transparent LD or OLED screens, Pepper’s Ghost projections or spinning LED light thingies holograms, explaining that they’re not, because while the outputs may appear to float in a space, those visuals are two-dimensional and don’t have depth or dimension. Here, though, is a genuine 3D …
Parking Lot Management Platform Adds Real-Time Displays To Solution Stack November 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s another example of digital signage that’s put in place for no other reason than improving a process for the user and operator – networked displays in parking garage that are end-points in a cloud-based parking management system. I call it boring signage and that is a term of endearment, just like boring signage at …
Transparent Display Emulates Red Light District Window To Try Solving Amsterdam Cold Case November 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes If you have been to Amsterdam and found yourself walking at night through the central area’s famed “Red Light District” you have likely seen sex workers in street windows, making passersby aware of their services and availability. The Dutch firm HereWeHolo has one of its life-sized transparent LCD enclosures installed in that area, at the …
More Than 100 Epson Projectors Fill New Immersive Space In Rural Kansas November 7, 2024 by Dave Haynes Another one of those projection-driven immersive experiences is opening tomorrow, and along with all the tech being used, one of the most interesting aspects is the location: Manhattan … Kansas. It’s a town of about 50,000, about two hours west of metro Kansas City. The new Museum of Art + Light (MoA+L) includes a big …
Digichief Adds Library Of Start-up Stream’s AI-Driven Broadcast-Like News Feeds November 7, 2024 by Dave Haynes Longtime subscription content provider Digichief has done a distribution partnership deal that adds a set of start-up STREAM’s plug-and-play video feeds to its digital signage content feeds. “With STREAM, we are able to provide our clients with curated, vertical specific news and information, highly scalable and targeted for no volume deployments,” says Gene Hamm, Founder …
Lots Of Sophisticated Display Tech In Taiwan, But Also Some Goofy Content Calls October 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes Electronics and displays are a huge part of Taiwan’s economy, so as you might expect, screens are everywhere – maybe not as much as you might expect outdoors but seemingly in most shops and restaurants in busy retail and public spaces. There are vast underground concourses and malls/food halls in the city center, and one …
64 LCDs Stacked, Tiled To Create Massive 52K By 8K Trade Show Video Wall October 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here is an interesting technical reminder that LCD video walls are still out there … a demo of a massive video wall canvas by the French firm Analog Way and its partners, for a trade show in Hamburg this week. The system is thought to be the world’s largest syncrhonized pixel canvas, using a 61,440 …
