TransitScreen Adds Bolt-On Nearby Service To Connect People To Closest Lattes August 22, 2017 by Super User Washington, DC-based TransitScreen has built up a business tapping into and visualizing real-time mass transport and ride share data to pass along organized, easily digested information to people in buildings and public spaces. They’ve now added a new bolt-on feature that makes sense – information and directions to nearby services. Here’s the pitch: Your building …
Weed-Focused Digital OOH Network Sparks Up In Marijuana Dispensaries August 22, 2017 by Super User The digital out of home business model that sees network operators put screens in retail venues for free, making the investment back through advertising sales, has a long history of failure. But it can work, usually when the content is focused and the potential advertisers – like pharmas – have limited options to reach consumers. …
Projects: Projection-Mapped Video Table Powerfully Illustrates Nazi Looting August 16, 2017 by Super User This is a 3D projection-mapped video table that illustrates the expropriation of Jewish property during the Third Reich in Berlin, the centerpiece of an exhibit at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York. The Stolen Heart Video Map is the feature element of “Stolen Heart: The Theft of Jewish Property in Berlin’s Historic Center, 1933–1945.” The …
Projects: Coca Cola Switches On World First Robotic 3D LED Board In Times Square August 10, 2017 by Super User Coca-Cola has had a big sign in NYC’s Times Square for a century, and this week the global brand turned on a new iconic sign billed as the world’s first 3D robotic LED billboard. It has 1,715 moving and 245 static LED cubes, with an overall visual footprint of 240 square meters, which in non-metric terms, is …
Startup Uses Sensors, AI To Drive Real-Time Lineup Dashboards For Sports And Entertainment Venues August 10, 2017 by Super User A Detroit-based startup called Waittime has developed a data-driven, multi-screen platform aimed at improving the fan experience at sports and entertainment venues, by telling people where the washroom and concession lines are shorter. The company installs sensors in venue concourses, with the data they spit out interpreted using artificial intelligence to determine wait times. The …
Projects: Cruise Ship Sets Sail With Experiential Video Wall August 9, 2017 by Super User Cruise ship giant Royal Caribbean International’s Ovation of the Seas took its first voyage in 201g with an experiential video wall on its main esplanade, using nine different pieces of themed, reactive content. The permanent 8’ x 20’ digital art wall reacts to each person passing by, and can be controlled through gestural interactivity. It …
Six Must-Haves For Any Digital Signage Design August 9, 2017 by Samantha Brault Guest Post: Mike Kilian, MVIX Signage, whether it be analog or digital, is at its foundation a form of advertising. The intention of most signs is to attract people to come closer, capture those same people with the content on display, and send customers, consumers, or the general public on their way with a call …
IntuiLab’s New API Explorer Allows Mere Mortals To Tap Into Web Data And Services August 4, 2017 by Super User The technical side of IntuiLab’s new API Explorer is way over my head, but the general concept being floated by the French interactive software firm is pretty interesting – a way for software partners and end-user creative people to use web content and services without needing any programming chops. The API Explorer is part of …
Changi Airport Previews Incredible 70-Metre Immersive LED Wall August 1, 2017 by Super User Singapore’s Changi Airport has started providing peaks inside the new Terminal 4, which is set to open before the end of this year. One of the big features is a vast immersive fine pitch LED video wall at the security screening area. Instead of small screens and talking flat ladies droning on endlessly about what …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Robin Carlisle, Framestore Labs July 12, 2017 by Super User Robin Carlisle is Global Head of Creative for Framestore Labs, a UK-based creative technology shop that specializes in making beautiful and cinematic real-time visuals. Framestore Labs is part of a larger company, Framestore, that has been doing amazing visuals for years. For example, that’s Framestore’s work in movies like Gravity, which somehow imagineers what happens …
