Low-Rez LED Wall Part Of Art Trail Tied To London’s Wembley Stadium December 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes (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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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. …
High-End Guangzhou Restaurant Uses Projection On Walls, Table To Create Immersive Dining Experience November 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a fine-dining restaurant in the south China port city of Guangzhou that set up a dedicated VIP dining room that uses wall and overhead projection to create an immersive dining experience. The restaurant adopted a unique “Maritime Silk Road” theme that relates a time when that area was not the world epicenter of electronics …
Check Out This Super-Nice, Very Different Digital Lobby Experience At Uber’s HQ (with Video) November 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is super-nice and wonderfully different from a lot of the digital display work that’s going into big company HQ buildings – a two-storey digital art experience in the lobby of Uber’s new head office in the Mission Bay district of San Francisco. The ride-sharing giant hired the Brooklyn-based design firm Hush Studios, and used Electrosonic …
Rise Vision Gets Hyperlocal With High School Sports Scores In U.S. November 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes Sports scores have been a part of digital signage – the dreaded tickers along the bottom of layouts and the much better full-screen presentations. But almost all of what’s shown on digital signage screens comes from pro sports or top tier amateur competitions, like college basketball. The CMS software firm Rise Vision has entered an …
Virtual Pandas Loom Over Busy Chengdu Street Corner November 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a nice “forced perspective” aka “anamorphic illusion” creative piece done on a wraparound 90-degree corner LED billboard in Chengdu, China. It involves pandas, as you can see, but I’ve no idea what’s being marketed here. This might just be Wow Factor and a piece that keeps people looking as a string of booked …
Branded Cities Touts “Proprietary” DreamRoom 3D In New Toronto DOOH Campaigns; BS Filter Twitching November 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes My BS filter is going off in a big way with news from the media company Branded Cities is showcasing “proprietary technology that enables brands to create an immersive world within their ad” at a couple of high traffic digital OOH venues in Toronto, starting today. Maybe it is something new and it just doesn’t …
