Projects: Cruise Ship Sets Sail With Experiential Video Wall August 9, 2017 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Provision’s Floating 3D Holographic Coupon Station Going Into Ohio Drug Store Chain June 30, 2017 by Dave Haynes LA-based Provision Interactive Technologies continues to find clients that get excited about its technology that shows consumer floating products in mid-air, as a carrot to get shoppers to use a coupon center. The company has announced a deal to put its proprietary 3D Savings Center kiosks inside Discount Drug Mart stores around Ohio. The chain currently has …
Panasonic, TransitScreen Form Smart City Alliance June 27, 2017 by Dave Haynes Panasonic and TransitScreen have formed a strategic alliance that gives the North American wing of the Japanese tech company access to transport data to use in some of its smart city applications, marketed under a platform called CityNOW. The agreement, says a press release, will provide city residents and visitors with real-time transit and transportation information …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: James Fine, Telecine June 21, 2017 by Dave Haynes James Fine has been around the digital signage ecosystem since the earliest days. He founded Telecine in the mid-80s to do high-end video production for the corporate sector. By the mid-90s, he was getting into signage, putting networked screens in Quebec casinos. We talk about the early days of the business – like spending $25,000 …
Projects: 100 Square Metres OF LED In Lithuanian Cinema Lobby June 19, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is the Forum cinema in Kaunas, Lithuania, which has invested in a big way in 3.9mm pitch LED screens and ambient content around the theatre’s lobby. The set-up was designed and installed by the Italian firm MacroPix. The total resolution is 4K plus and there is about 100 square metres of digital on the walls. …
In Digital Signage, Calming Down Screen Layouts Just Makes Sense May 26, 2017 by DanielWaldron Guest Post: Loren Bucklin, ConnectedSign The single biggest content mistake being made in digital signage is asking displays to do too much. Put simply, many screens are way over-populated with data and information. It sometimes seems like the mistakes made in the print world have migrated to the digital signage displays. Whether it’s a retail deployment, …
