LED Tower And Walls Create Data Sculpture Maze In Taipei March 16, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is pretty wild – the world’s first outdoor immersive installation done as a maze. The walls are LED panels, covering 1,110 sq. meters at a site near the iconic Taipei 101 in Taiwan’s main city. The set-up included a four-storey high LED monolith tower, and a series of other walls that create the maze, …
Endangered Kelp Forests Get Replicated On Big SFO LED Display March 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes Virtual aquariums have been used before for large-scale LED video walls, as have virtual waterfalls, but a new digital piece running in one of Salesforce’s office towers in San Francisco relates to a cause. The CRM giant is running a public art video piece on the big, 90-degree corner SNA Displays LED in the Salesforce …
Telecine, YCD Partner On Custom On-Premise TV Channels For Retail Banking March 7, 2023 by Dave Haynes Solutions provider Telecine and software developer YCD Multimedia have developed a partner product that is, in effect, a financial news TV channel customized for banks. Called RAMP Up! , the product is intended to provide steadily updated information-you-can-use content to screens in retail banking scenarios, leveraging the data feeds and produced content of Bloomberg News, …
Poor Workplace Communications Can Have Massive Bottom Line Implications: Survey March 6, 2023 by Dave Haynes Workplace communications is a very active vertical in digital signage – both in white collar and operational environments – because of the recognition by end-user customers that better, more timely and relevant messaging is perhaps more important than ever. Some digital signage software companies – like Appspace, Poppulo (Four Winds) and NDS (Netherlands) – have …
New KC Airport Includes Digitally-Driven Simulation For First-Time And Anxious Fliers March 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes The brand-new terminal at Kansas City International Airport has, like most new and reno’d airports, a lot of digital display deployed around its sprawling footprint, including some 300 feet of fine pitch Nanolumens LED used to designate and locate airline check-in. But there’s also a super-interesting component that uses digital displays as part of an …
Fine Pitch LED Walls Create Virtual Aquarium At IT Giant’s NYC Offices March 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
