Fine Pitch LED Walls Create Virtual Aquarium At IT Giant’s NYC Offices March 1, 2023 by Super User Aquariums have been used as office lobby decor for decades, but LED video wall technology has now matured and lowered in cost to a point that big virtual fish tanks can maybe go in instead – likely saving on a lot of maintenance and food for the fishies. The IT firm World Wide Technology has …
Idaho Municipality Adopts Digital Signage To Efficiently Promote Local Events, Services February 24, 2023 by Super User Vertical markets that offer a lot of scale are understandably attractive to vendors in the digital signage industry, so it is logical that a lot of companies have spent years chasing business with retailers and fast food operators – because they both tend to have a lot of locations, and therefore might use a lot …
Cannabis Retailer Uses Short-Throw Projection, Giant Tiled Menu Array, To Drive Buyer Experience February 23, 2023 by Super User This is one of the more ambitious uses of digital signage technology I’ve seen in the still-emerging cannabis retailing sector – an order counter that uses short-throw projection on a back wall and what appears to be 10 flat panels tiled together as a menu display ribbon up above. Norton, Massachusetts-based CANA Craft Cannabis opened …
GSTV Makes Screens Across US Network Available To Help Solve Missing Child Cold Case February 23, 2023 by Super User Hat Tip to the DOOH network GSTV for making time available on its full estate of gas pump displays to help the U.S. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) solve a decades-old child abduction case. Detroit-based GSTV and NCMEC have a message up on gas station screens in 48 states to generate fresh …
Nexmosphere’s Sensors, Controllers And Toolkit Aimed At Making Interactive Retail Easy February 14, 2023 by Super User Way, way back in the day – in my dark period doing business development work for software companies – the company I was with did a fair amount of custom work that involved triggering content to screens using sensors. If someone came within a certain range of a screen, or lifted something that made a …
Digital Signage Tech Pushed To Remote Worker Screens Reduces IT Help Desk Tickets By Two-Thirds February 8, 2023 by Super User When the pandemic hit, there were numerous CMS software providers actively trying to develop new or tweak existing products and functionality to address the needs of companies that suddenly had much or perhaps all of their office workforce operating from home. Applications that pushed digital signage-ish content and notifications to desktop displays have been around …
Hat Tip To rAVe For Knocking Out 1,700+ ISE Exhibitor Videos February 8, 2023 by Super User A tip of the hat to the team at rAVe Publications for running around madly last week shooting video demos all over Integrated Systems Europe, including 100s of stand-ups involving vendors in the digital signage ecosystem. North Carolina-based rAVe has been doing this sort of thing for many years, and it is a little mind-wobbling …
Spotted: Update Screens For Toilet Occupancy Status January 27, 2023 by Super User Running around madly for meetings and site visits in London this week, so minimal desk time for knocking out posts. That curious polka dot painter from Japan, which had big digital installs in NYC, has a version in London outside Harrod’s – but it is mostly a huge figurine in front of a door. There …
It’s Time For The Digital Signage Community To Start Dabbling With Generative AI January 25, 2023 by Geoff Bessin Guest Post: Geoffrey Bessin, Intuiface The world of generative AI is on fire. Super-powered algorithms are writing code, crafting stories, and creating images that would challenge a Turing test. Under the covers, deeply complex machine-learning processes are burrowing through billions of human-created words, graphics, and code, getting more intelligent and more creative by the minute. …
Read About The Sophisticated Tech Set-Up At Orlando Int’l Airport’s Moment Vault January 20, 2023 by Super User The technical and creative teams behind an experiential multimedia installation at Orlando International Airport have pushed out PR that goes into substantial detail about what’s called The Moment Vault – three big, curved fine-pitch LED walls that form a circle. The Moment Vault’s impressive technology was planned out and managed by system designer Smart Monkeys, …
