Hogwarts Castle Gets Projection-Mapped For Christmas December 28, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is the Christmas projection mapping show running on the exterior of the Hogwarts Castle, which is the main feature (I think) of the Harry Potter attraction at the Universal Studios theme park in Orlando. It’s a seven-minute show that’s interesting, particularly, for the technical challenge of mapping digital visuals on a canvas that is …
Twin LED Walls Light Up 55 Water Lobby In Wall Street December 26, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is a nice pair of 20 by 8 foot fine pitch LED screens that have been lit up in the lobby of 55 Water Street, in the Wall Street district of Lower Manhattan. The total resolution on the screens is 6,400 by 1,260 pixels, which I assume means each of them is 3,200 by …
Organizational Communications In A Post-Postmodern World December 15, 2017 by Stu Armstrong GUEST POST: SEAN MATTHEWS, VISIX English doesn’t have a word for it, so we appropriated the German term zeitgeist, which translates as “spirit of the times.” Today, there is certainly something afoot – we can all sense there’s been a shift in the way we think as a culture, and there is much talk about the …
Denmark’s Realfiction To Launch Large-Format Hologram-like DeepFrame At CES December 13, 2017 by Dave Haynes The Danish company that has shown small pyramid-shaped hologram-like displays at recent Digital Signage Expos will be showing a much larger take on mixed reality at the upcoming CES show in Las Vegas. Realfiction will he unveiling DeepFrame, a large glass window that uses the reflection of an OLED display’s image to create an overlay …
Big Red One’s Museum Goes Interactive In $8M Renovation December 11, 2017 by Dave Haynes The First Division Museum at Cantigny Park, in Chicago, recently completed a year-long, $8 million renovation that complete reimagining the presentation of the story behind the U.S. Army’s famed division known as the Big Red One. The new version has extensive storytelling installations that integrate interactive media and other historic artifacts through experiential design. The program …
Giant LED Arch In Oslo Airport Pharmacy Puts Travelers In Holiday Mood December 8, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is the Oslo International Airport flagship store of the pharmacy chain Apotek 1, which is part of a big pharmaceutical trader in Europe. It’s probably the first time I’ve seen direct view LED used in a big way at a drug store – in this case a nine metres wide by three tall 3.9mm …
A Queue Management Digital Signage Solution … For Washrooms December 5, 2017 by Dave Haynes Spotted by a reader on Reddit … Somewhere in South Korea, there’s a bathroom that has mashed up IoT sensors and digital signage to create what amounts to a queue management system and dashboard for washrooms. This smart toilet information system, set up in a men’s washroom, shows in a graphical display how many toilet …
A Boston College Turns Renovation Tarp On One Building Into Giant Digital Canvas December 4, 2017 by Dave Haynes A college building on the corner of Boston Common has a big, white tarp covering the facade for the next 18 months – as it undergoes rears and renovations – so that very large piece of cloth has been turned into a massive projection canvas. Emerson College has projectors blasting visuals from what looks to …
Why Digital Signage At Scale Needs Enterprise Features November 29, 2017 by Dave Haynes Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix Even though digital signage can be as simple as a laptop playing a PowerPoint slideshow hooked up to a display, it’s really designed to reach large audiences. Some organizations spread out over multiple floors, multiple buildings or even multiple geographical locations. When you are operating at that scale, the basics …
16:9 Projects Podcast: The Story Behind That 13K LED Wall In Netflix’s HQ Lobby November 24, 2017 by Danica Trapara Imagine, while sitting in the lobby waiting for your next meeting, three walls around you change, placing you in a cocaine manufacturing camp in the jungles of Colombia. Minutes later, they change again to drop you into a prison cafeteria in upper New York state. When Netflix was designing the lobby of their new Hollywood …
