Friend-shoring: Moving Product Manufacturing Closer To The Markets October 30, 2023 by Florian Rotberg The annual Digital Signage Yearbook produced by invidis, with contributions from Sixteen:Nine, was released this summer as a free download – and we’re now running some of the articles from that yearbook here. First up, a piece written by invidis managing director Florian Rotberg about the recent trend of friend-shoring – companies shifting production and …
Digital Signage Experience Announces 2023 DSE (DIZZIE) Awards Finalists October 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes Finalists have been announced for the Digital Signage Experience Awards – nicknamed the Dizzies – that recognize great installations or campaigns that apply the technology. The awards will be announced during the trade show and conference, which is coming up Dec. 2-5 in Las Vegas. Here is a compilation video … You are currently viewing …
Genuinely Engaging And Immersive Projection Exhibit Lets Kids Draw, Color Fish For Virtual Aquarium October 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes Love this … an interactive exhibit that allows kids to draw and color fish or other marine life, have it scanned, and then appear on a big set of projection-mapped screens. Terms like immersive and engaging are wildly over-used, and quite often terribly applicable, but this is very immersive and very engaging for the target …
US University In Damage Control Mode After Hitler Trivia Appears On Big LED Board At Football Stadium October 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes Photo credit: Jeff Kowalsky A US university has had to do a bunch of damage control this week after a very large image of Adolf Hitler appeared on the giant LED display at its football stadium, as part of a programming mix running ahead of a Big 10 football game. The image – part of …
Spectrio Launches Content Library Designed To Ease Production Burden, Costs For Network Customers October 25, 2023 by Dave Haynes The digital signage software and solutions firm Spectrio has launched added a new feature it’s calling Content Library – which as the name pretty clearly says is a library of pre-made, curated content pieces its customers can use to enrich their programming mix. The proposition is that just about any network operator struggles to stay …
Video: Yay, An LED Manufacturer Shows How To Do 3D Illusions That Don’t Have A Viewing Sweet Spot October 24, 2023 by Dave Haynes Love this … Jason Helton of SNA Displays has a video up on Linkedin showing that new display at the Kennedy Space Center visitor complex in Florida running 3D visuals, and it is NOT shot from a very specific angle off the 90 degree corner. It is head-on, with Jason’s point being that if the …
Gucci Uses LED Over Full Facade of Bangkok Airport Store October 23, 2023 by Dave Haynes It took some digging but I eventually sorted out that this is a Gucci store opened last year at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, with LED displays effectively being the wall finishings for the full exterior of the store inside the terminal. I’ve seen a few stores – usually in airports – using LED as part or …
Shape-Shifting Data Vizualization Illuminates Entire Side Of World’s Tallest Skyscraper October 23, 2023 by Dave Haynes This would have to be the largest LED surface to date used as a digital canvas for public art – one whole side of the world’s tallest building. The Burj Khalifa – not sure when, as details are minimal – but it appears to be a recent thing. The skyscraper is clad at least on …
SignageOS, Screenfeed Partner On Standard HTML5 Performance Tests For SOC Smart Displays And Players October 16, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Czech/US software firm signageOS has been doing benchmarking tests on system-on-chip smart display technology since 2018, and has now taken the interesting step of partnering with subscription content provider Screenfeed on a standardized content set to test how “smart” digital signage screens and players handle HTML5. The Prague company, most known for middleware that …
Newark’s New-ish Terminal Borrows LED Surprise From Comcast Tower October 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes One of the brilliant aspects, going back some 15 years, of the Comcast Tower LED lobby experience in Philly was and is how the big video wall takes on the appearance of the lobby’s non-digital wall finish – and then stuff starts appearing. Newark and Philly are pretty close in proximity, so the Comcast lobby …
