Video: Series Of LED Light Strips Create Illusion Of Full Motion Video Ads In Subway Cars May 14, 2024 by Dave Haynes I was a bit surprised to come across a post this morning about a company pushing the idea of using a series of digital light strips in subway tunnels to create the illusion of full motion ads in the windows of passenger cars. It is an idea and technology that’s been around for perhaps 20 …
Sphere’s Backers Get Full Ownership Of Key Tech Supplier, Directional Audio Firm HOLOPLOT May 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes One way for a high-profile attraction to deal with other projects “inspired” by the originally is to partially or fully influence or control the businesses of key technology suppliers, especially those supplying somewhat unique solutions. Sphere Entertainment, the company behind that giant, much-Instagram’d LED ball in Las Vegas, has done a deal to realize full …
Video: LED Ribbon Display At Jacksonville’s Airport Cleverly Manages TSA Screening Area May 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes I wrote back in February about the 100 feet of Nanolumens LED ribbon on a bulkhead wall over the entries to TSA security screening at Jacksonville, Florida’s airport, and how it was set up to do things like locating different screening lines and also run background content specific to that day. Heres another video, from …
Projection And Hover Touch Mash-up Allow People To Leaf Through Ancient Manuscript At Korean Library May 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes Hat tip to UK creative Stephan Bischof for posting on Linkedin about this … This is a physical book, with blank pages, sitting on a marble table – with the material from the real book projected on to it from above. The truly interesting thing is the use of a Zytronic’s contactless hover touch-sensing technology …
Broadcasters Dialling Back From 4K To 1080P HD For Big Live Events May 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes UK-based AV Interactive has an interesting post up that’s not about digital signage, but offers some interesting insights about the consumer demands for 4K video – or more accurately the lack of them. A couple of massive sporting events – the Champions League final and then the EURO 2024 football tournament in Germany will be …
Design Huddle Curates, Integrates Key AI-Based Workflow Tools Into Its Graphic Design Software May 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes Visuals generated by artificial intelligence seemed like something that would be quickly adopted for use by digital signage companies, but most of the software and solutions people who’ve been showing or at least talking about AI tools have used them much more for back-end purposes – notably using it to do the more mundane aspects …
Real-Time Transit Info Screens In Nottingham, England So Bad City Council Sends “We Share Your Frustrations” Email To Riders May 1, 2024 by Dave Haynes It’s never a good thing when a city’s mass transport authority sends a note to passengers to concede the real-time information screens at stops along its routes tend to either be blank, or showing inaccurate information. Nottingham City Transport is the UK sent an email saying it shared their frustrations about displays that appear to …
Chicago 360 Goes Heavy With Digital Display In Update To 94th Floor Entry Experience May 1, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Chicago 360 attraction high up in one of Chicago’s tallest skyscrapers has opened a new immersive entry kicks off the visitor experience, using a lot of digital done in interesting and offbeat ways. The 5,000 sq. ft, gives visitors a way to explore the history of the city, its iconic architecture and distinctive neighborhoods, …
Airport Trade Show Demo Has Fine Pitch LED Wrapping Jetway Entry As Departure Gate Portal April 29, 2024 by Dave Haynes Anyone who does a lot of commercial flying for business travel knows the quality of information on the screens at depature gates is all over the map – from rich and detailed to minimal and not all that useful, beyond confirming the gate number and destination. So it is interesting to see a departure gate …
Signagelive Automates High Volume Video Content Production And Delivery Via Integration With Serb Start-up Plainly April 29, 2024 by Dave Haynes The UK CMS software firm Signagelive has a long history of looking around the corners at what’s now possible, or will be soon, when it comes to emerging technologies and software integrations. CEO Jason Cremins was talking, for example, about things like cloud, headless CMS and low/no code well before most other companies. Now the …
