FanConnect Puts Signage In Clubhouse And Stadium Suites October 3, 2017 by Dave Haynes As expected, the Mets are not the only pro sports team using digital signage behind the scenes at venues – with word from Charlotte, NC-based 10 Foot Wave sending me a note about work it does for MLB’s San Diego Padres. FanConnect, the sports and entertainment side of the business, powers clubhouse signage at the Padres, and also …
What IoT Can Bring To Digital Signage In Retail October 3, 2017 by Rob Cote GUEST POST: VIKTOR PETERSSON, SCREENLY & DOMINIQUE GUINARD, EVRYTHNG Many years ago, the recipe for a successful digital signage deployment was to put up a few screens in the store, and load them with an image slideshow (or video slide if you were on the forefront). Those days are long gone. Today, It takes a …
MLB’s Mets Keep Players Informed With Clubhouse Digital Signage October 2, 2017 by Dave Haynes Business communications is a very active vertical for digital signage, but I don’t think I’ve run into another project like the workplace communications being used at Citi Field for baseball’s New York Mets. Like most pro sports venues there are screens in the concessions areas and elsewhere, but what’s different here are screens in the …
Ballantine’s Creates Immersive, Interactive Scotch Whisky Tasting Rooms September 28, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is a couple of years old, but the first I’ve seen of it – an interactive whisky tasting experience that blends immersive 360 projections and interactive touch screens that use optical markers on things like the bottles. It was put together in London for Ballantine’s, a Scottish distiller focused on blended whisky. The global …
How To Maximize Audience Engagement With The Right Kinds Of Content September 26, 2017 by Kenneth Brinkmann Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix The whole point of your digital signage is to get your audience to stop, pay attention and take whatever action your message asks them to. How should you present the information – which type of content is right for each message? Should you use a still message, or one with …
Is Coca-Cola’s Big Robotic Billboard In Times Square Mechanical Overkill For Visual Effects? September 25, 2017 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
