Is Coca-Cola’s Big Robotic Billboard In Times Square Mechanical Overkill For Visual Effects? September 25, 2017 by Super User The big three-dimensional robotic billboard that Coca-Cola bankrolled and switched on this summer in New York’s Times Square has generated lots of attention, and led to an interesting debate about whether it’s a brilliant showcase of attention-grabbing technology, or mechanical overkill for effects that could largely be created inside the content. I haven’t seen the …
Digital Screens Replace Paper Tags At Cafe Food Stations September 22, 2017 by Super User Haven’t seen this before … displays fixed above the food guards that you’ll find in cafeterias and buffets all over the place. New partnership between Denver-based school menu-maker Nutrislice and BSI, who since originally posting ome readers have helped me find and link to here (thanks!). We’ve all had the experience of wandering around with …
Projection-Mapping Turns Vancouver Bridge Into Virtual Salmon Run September 21, 2017 by Super User This is the last weekend to see what appears to be an amazing projection mapping effort on the underside of one of Vancouver’s main bridges The Cambie Bridge’s underside is transformed into a wild B.C. river that shows the journey of migrating sockeye salmon in a 25-minute show, using cinematography from three B.C. rivers that …
Hamptons’ Art Museum Uses LED Walls To Make Waves With Exhibition September 20, 2017 by Super User Via Installation A gallery in the ritzy Hamptons area of Long Island, NY has an exhibit running right now that builds big LED screens into the mix to show a series of digitally-generated waves. There is a pair of 15mm pitch LED walls on the gallery exterior visible to visitors and passing motorists, showing waves …
Video: Largest Outdoor 8mm LED Board On Planet September 15, 2017 by Super User Here’s video from that monster wraparound 8mm LED board that sparked up in Times Square this summer. Located at 701 7th Avenue (aka 20 Times Square), the wrap-around main screen is 91’4″ high and 186’4″ wide. Manufacturer/integrator SNA Displays says that makes it the largest 8mm outside LED board on the planet. The NFL will …
These Digital Screens Spit At You September 15, 2017 by Super User This is a public art installation somewhere in Switzerland. A water spout is sync’d with the content so it looks like the subject on the screen spitting out water is flying off the screen. Best opinion I can muster is: Hmmmm …. A public installation in Switzerland by Marck. Contact us for more info or …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Peter Fahlman, Telemetry September 13, 2017 by Super User A lot of companies run by creatives and software developers have found their way into the digital signage business on the backs of projects they delivered, but I wouldn’t really see that happening with a company that’s all about online payments. That’s exactly, though, the back story on Telemetry, a Vancouver, BC start-up that grew …
Texas A&M Pimped Out Its Football Locker Room With Digital Signage, Too … In 2014 September 12, 2017 by Super User So when I saw video of the University of Texas Longhorns’ football locker room, with LCD screens over every locker, it occurred to me that this was going to be something that would get emulated by other schools. Turns out that U of T borrowed on something another big football program, Texas A&M’s Aggies, did …
Real-Time Data On UK Billboards Reminds Traffic-Jammed Motorists They Should’ve Taken Train September 11, 2017 by Super User Virgin Trains launched a dead-simple digital OOH campaign in the UK this week that very effectively uses real-time data to tell motorists crawling along choked motorways that’d they’d likely have been far wiser to take a train. The campaign for the railway, conceived by Virgin Train’s agency Anomaly and pulled off by the digital shop …
How Interactive Digital Signage Enhance Customer Experiences September 11, 2017 by DanDawson Guest Post: Richard Murton, Display Technology These days, the importance of engaging with customers is widely recognized – as is the ever-increasing difficulty of doing so. The simple fact of the matter is that customers are becoming highly expert at deploying their own, internal “anti-spam” filters, to deal with all the calls on their attention …
