Motion Tracking Dynamically Animates St. Louis Arts Center’s Digital Donor Wall December 20, 2021 by Super User The new University Campus of the Center of Creative Arts in St. Louis, MO has made a 20-foot wide interactive display a visual centerpiece for the multidisciplinary community arts organization, using a motion-tracking system to react to the actions of onlookers. The wall was put together by the Boston-based creative technology firm SOSO. From start …
Cycling Retailer Q36.5 Uses Fine Pitch LED To Make Visual Statement At New Zurich Flagship December 17, 2021 by Super User This is a recently-opened flagship store of the cycling-focused retailer Q36.5 in Zurich – a two-level venue that’s visually dominated by a big fine pitch LED that fills a feature wall. The LED is an AOTO 1.5mm. This is notable because of its scale. In larger stores, a screen of this size might still just …
Re-booted DSE Revives Awards Program Under A Very Vegas-Appropriate Handle: The DIZZIES December 16, 2021 by Super User The re-boot of DSE is continuing, with the Digital Signage Experience team announcing today it has revived the awards program that was directly tied for many years to the now-defunct version of that trade show and conference. What were the APEX awards before the original show backers Exponation ran into crippling financial troubles will now …
This Edinburgh Krispy Kreme Has A Doughnut Hole Right In Its Window Video Display December 14, 2021 by Super User This is an interesting application of an LED video display built into the window of a Krispy Kreme shop in an Edinburgh, Scotland urban shopping mall – with three-dimensional creative built around the doughnut hole in the LED wall. The doughnut shop, says software provider embed signage in a YouTube feature, “is a modern take …
UAE Mega-Mall Adds Illusion-Driven Experiential LED Display In Central Plaza December 14, 2021 by Super User The first wave of anamorphic illusions on LED displays seemed to almost exclusively be associated with booked advertising on media company billboards, with a sprinkling of public art initiatives here and there. Now we’re starting to see these visual tricks – also referred to as forced perspective illusions – showing up as attractions and experiential …
Low-Rez LED Wall Part Of Art Trail Tied To London’s Wembley Stadium December 13, 2021 by Super User Here’s a good reminder, if one is needed, that good work can be done without investing six or seven figures in a fine pitch LED video wall. This is a low resolution wall running ambient content on a pedestrian walkway at Wembley Park station, the closest London Underground stop to the big sports and events …
Toronto Mega-Mall Uses PORTL’s Hologram-ish Displays To Run Virtual Fashion Shows Through Holiday Season December 3, 2021 by Super User (Image: Dustin Fuhs) An “activation” that’s somewhere between interesting and gimmick-y used one of PORTL’s transparent LCD set-ups to do a virtualized fashion show at one of Canada’s biggest shopping malls, starting this week and running through the holiday season. The retail property owner Cadillac Fairview has one of the shower-stall like set-ups in the …
VESA Standards People Open-Source Some 28,000 High-Rez Image And Video Files For Display R&D Work December 2, 2021 by Super User Hat Tip Display Daily for finding this … The Video Electronics Standards Association – aka VESA- has taken the interesting step of making more than 28,000 high-resolution, high dynamic range (HDR) image and video content files available for unrestricted public use and free to download. The move is positioned as a way of getting much …
Mvix Adds Real-Time Alerts From FEMA Warning System November 18, 2021 by Super User The DC-area CMS software firm Mvix has signed an agreement with FEMA, the US agency that deals with the aftermath of things like hurricanes and floods, to tap into the government’s public alerts and warning system to auto-trigger messages to screens. The arrangement allows emergency information to be disseminated and instantly displayed on networks running …
TransitScreen Rebrands Its Visualized Transport Info Platform As Actionfigure November 16, 2021 by Super User The Washington, DC start-up that has focused on real-time public display dashboards for mass transport and mobility options in big cities has rebranded itself from TransitScreen to Actionfigure. Our Actionfigure rebrand brings all of our software solutions together under a single name with a unified look and feel, the company says in an email blast today. …
