Reminder: Get Your Entries In For The Global Digital Signage Awards; Sept. 30 Submission Deadline September 18, 2023 by Super User Submissions for the global Digital Signage Awards need to be in by the end of this month, and as a main media sponsor and the person behind the awards categories, I wanted to remind companies about the deadline and reinforce the rationale for entering. There are some big changes in place for the awards categories …
Giant Footballer Erling Haaland’s Console Game Avatar Made Life-Sized And Interactive For FC 24 Launch September 14, 2023 by Super User Console games have long been creating lifelike avatars of professional athletes that show up in TVs and computer monitors, but here’s a case in which an already larger-than-life athlete was produced in full size and made interactive. The London-based creative shop The Mill worked with and games producer Electronic Arts collaborated on an immersive and …
Seoul Interactive Wall Blends Projection Mapping With Conductive Ink September 12, 2023 by Super User This is a fun interactive wall that blends projection mapping with conductive ink – done back in 2020 at an art center in Seoul. You can see how someone trying out the Netmarble Game Academy exhibition is seeing visuals that just arrive or are highlighted by clever projection mapping from a ceiling projector. You can …
Video Lecture: How Social Media Amplifies Visual Trickery Run On Real DOOH LED Screens September 7, 2023 by Super User My friends and content partners at the German firm invidis have started pushing videos from the excellent digital signage summit it ran in Munich at the start of July – including this one that features a couple of senior people from the UK-based media owner Ocean Outdoor, talking about the organic relationship between digital out-of-home …
Spokane’s New Rapid Transit Line Relays Real-Time GPS Location/Stops To Riders September 5, 2023 by Super User The kind of live positioning visuals motorists routinely use for getting around are being applied to transit rider information screens in Spokane, WA, using technology from Nebraska-based Nanonation. The Spokane Transit Authority has launched a real-time on-bus display system on its rapid transit fleet that relays accurate location information to paying riders. Unlike most transit …
Mvix Launches Dynamic Menu Board Update Solution, Tied to Dozen-Plus POS Platforms September 1, 2023 by Super User The DC-area digital signage solutions provider Mvix has launched a Menu Maker module for its software that automates menu board updating by integrating with data from more than a dozen restaurant and retail point of sale systems. Says Mvix in PR: Realizing the needs of clients who need live updates of their menus throughout the …
Version Of Refik Anadol’s Machine Hallucinations To Run On That New Las Vegas “Sphere” Starting Tomorrow August 31, 2023 by Super User The company behind that giant digital sphere in Las Vegas is doubling down on making a big splash with its opening – hiring a rock star act – U2 – to play the opening events in the venue this fall, and now enlisting a rock star visual artist to produce some visuals for the LED …
When Data Integration Goes Bad: UK Air Traffic Chaos Monday Attributed To Ingested Data August 30, 2023 by Super User Integrating data sources from different management and operations systems is incredibly powerful and important in running relevant, timely messaging on digital signage networks, but ingesting data also has its perils – as experienced this week in the UK air transport system. Flights were delayed or cancelled at airports across the UK on Monday – stranding …
DOOH Media Giant JCDecaux’s Country Units Marketing JCDecaux 3D. August 28, 2023 by Super User Country and region units of the global out of home media owner JCDecaux seem to now be marketing what’s branded as JCDecaux 3D – displays in deployed networks that can support forced perspective visual illusions. That “support” is not in the hardware (some LED manufacturers try to sell products that can “naked eye 3D”), but …
Dutch Smart Glass Lets Air Travelers Play Pong, Grows Biophilic Leaves As Active Glare Control August 24, 2023 by Super User I’ve been paying attention to a Dutch startup called VideowindoW because of its interesting approach of manufacturing digitally-embedded building glass that runs media but also doubles up as active glare control. The company promotes several use cases as it looks for early adopters, but the most obvious and compelling one is for windows in mass …
