LED Mesh Displays In Windows Turn Iconic Madrid Bank Building Into Media Facade October 18, 2021 by Super User This is a flagship Caixabank branch in Madrid, in Plaza Colón, that uses much of the facade of a Norman Foster-designed building as a screen. The digital aspect used see-through mesh LED displays in the windows, and there is a LOT of full-wall LED inside the branch, all running custom experiential content that does not …
Workspace Design Giant Unispace Acquires Experiential Content Shop Downstream October 18, 2021 by Super User In another sign that companies specializing in workplace design need digital experience chops, Unispace has acquired the Portland-based experiential design firm Downstream. Unispace, which is based in Sydney, Australia but has offices all over the place, says it has bought a firm that is great at integrating interactive digital and physical experiences in global tech …
Bowling Lanes Go Experiential With Projection-Mapped Lanes And Real-Time Ball Tracking October 15, 2021 by Super User This is not digital signage, but the tech applied and the underlying software applications are very similar. A company based in Orlando has started delivering a product and service called Unreal Bowling, which uses projection mapping to light up the lanes in bowling alleys with interactive content experiences and breathe new life into a decades-old …
QSR Chain Uses Transparent LCDs On Grab’n’Go Lockers To Guide Order Pickups October 14, 2021 by Super User Transparent LCD displays have been around for a decade or more, but aside from those screens in grocery chiller doors, I’ve not seen widespread adoption or many use-cases that looked all that good or effective. But here’s one … This is a flagship location in Austria of True Chicken, a QSR chain that specializes in …
Korean Mega-Mall’s 72-Foot Atrium Video Wall Controlled By Smartphone App In Environmental Campaign October 14, 2021 by Super User The press release borders on impenetrable, but the accompanying image for news about a short-term video wall creative piece in South Korea makes it worth noting. The 22-metre-tall LED video tower in the central atrium of the Starfield Hanam shopping mall started running an art piece yesterday that is controlled, at least in part, by …
AI-Driven Generative Art For Video Walls Generates $5M At Sotheby’s NFT Auction October 4, 2021 by Super User Let me immediately get out of the way the reality that I know very close to zippo about cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens, aka NFTs. I take considerable comfort in how some very smart people who I follow on tech podcasts and in publications also say they can’t quite wrap their heads around it all, and …
Singing Soup Pot At Grocery End Cap Drives Whopping 240% Sales Lift September 28, 2021 by Super User This is another project that is not digital signage but speaks to the idea of having fun with in-store displays and content, and not just telling shoppers about promotions and offers. It comes out of Bolivia (this may be the first Sixteen:Nine post, period, involving Bolivia) and is for the Nestle brand Maggi, a soup …
Telecine Makes Fun, Animated Digital Signage Master Class Sessions Available For Free September 22, 2021 by Super User The good people over at Montreal content-centric solutions provider Telecine have released a free “Digital Signage Master Class” built around a quirky, slightly snarky animated Content Queen named Nicky. The online video course spans eight weeks and covers subjects like Project Planning, Software, Data Analytics, Digital Signage Templates and Audience Measurement. “We designed this course …
Time’s Running Out – Get Your Entries In For The 2022 Global Digital Signage Awards! September 21, 2021 by Super User A last reminder that vendors, service providers and end-users like network operators and agencies have a little more than a week left to pull together submissions for the 2022 edition of the global Digital Signage Awards, which are backed, in part, by Sixteen:Nine. As I have noted a number of times, a little bit of …
Dutch Artist Does Cascade Of LCD Screens To Create Very Different Digital Waterfall September 21, 2021 by Super User There have been many, many digital waterfalls developed and deployed in recent years as LED video walls grew increasingly commonplace, but here’s one that took an entirely different approach. This is an amalgam of waterfalls videos on a set of LCD displays stacked and somewhat scattered into what looks kinda sorta like a cascading waterfall …
