Calgary Uses Electronic Signs To Validate Its Bike Lane Network July 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes I’m not sure I’d call this digital signage, but I guess like electronic shelf labels it kinda sorta is. Whatever the proper distinction, it’s interesting. This is a semi-digital totem on a sidewalk along a roadway in downtown Calgary, in western Canada. Like a lot of cities, Calgary has a growing network of dedicated bike …
Ancient Roman City In Turkiye Revived In Projection-Mapped Immersive Museum July 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes An ancient Roman trading city is revived and explored using more than 120 projectors at an immersive museum in Selçuk, Türkiye that opened in mid 2023. The Ephesus Experience Museum looks at what life was like in Ephesus before it was largely destroyed in an earthquake in 262. From PR about the immersive experience: Ancient …
UPshow Acquired By Sports And Entertainment Platform; Back-Of-House Tools Being Spun Out As Independent Entity July 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes Chicago-based UPshow, which does what it calls on-premise entertainment and performance marketing platform for venues, has been acquired by a media platform that distributes live sports and entertainment content to the same kinds of venues where UPshow has built a footprint for almost a decade. Founded just last year, NYC-based EverPass Media launched initially as …
Uniguest’s Ad Feature On BBC Video Series Gives Interesting Look At Tuning Tech To Senior Living Communities June 28, 2024 by Dave Haynes Nashville-based Uniguest has for several years now been growing its solutions footprint in a vertical market I see few other companies interested in, despite the demographic information and opportunity staring them in the face. The company expanded its focus from hotels and resorts to also incorporate senior living communities, offering a range of solutions …
Build Your Digital Signage Messaging With Microsoft Word??? June 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes Just about anyone who advises, guides or executes on content and creative strategy for a digital signage network has talked customers off the ledge from using common office productivity tools to make their own content, so it was a bit weird to come across news that Minneapolis-based CMS software firm Carousel Digital Signage has developed …
Big Projection-Mapped Space Helps Tell Tiffany & Co. Story At Tokyo Exhibit June 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here is a vey nice example of indoor projection mapping done this spring in Tokyo to showcase the product and story of Tiffany & Co. at a special exhibit. The jewelry house developed and ran Tiffany Wonder, a special immersive experience at the Tokyo Node Gallery on the 45th floor of an office tower. The …
London’s Iconic Tower Bridge (Not Really) Used As Promo Facade For New Prime Documentary June 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes I was developing some sense lately that the creative industry was starting to buy into the idea that it was OK to be honest – even if the honesty was subtle – about CGI-driven out of home ads being faked, or more gracefully described as Faux DOOH or #FOOH. I’ve seen lots of Linkedin posts …
Zoom-Zoom: InfoComm Videos Demo Curved Touch LEDs And Infinite Zoom Software June 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s a few videos from InfoComm last week that demo a curved, touched LED video wall, and interactive software that continues to genuinely blow my mind. This first one is a real world demo of curved yet multi-touch capable fine pitch display that is a collaboration between Planar and TSI Touch. For context, touch on …
New Streaming Curated Curated Digital Art Service Vieunite Pro Also Enables Workplace Messaging June 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes There have been several companies that have popped up offering subscription content services focused on digital artworks to be used on commercial displays – as one-offs or part of the mix in digital signage networks – but a newly launched service out of the UK blends curated artwork, screens optimized for display art, and a …
MLB Team Uses Faux Windows Errors Messages On Stadium Screens To Amplify Fan Support June 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes There have been seemingly endless tales of digital signage networks with screens showing the dreaded Windows blue screen of death or pop-up notifications for things like outdated licenses, but the pro baseball team in the home city of Microsoft did a nice job recently of trolling and then whipping up local fans with a faux …
