World’s Tallest Building Hosts Massive Car Rally Ad, For Dakar Rally December 30, 2019 by Super User The Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai has long been used as a visual surface for lasers, fireworks and most recently, programmable LED lighting. The 828 meter building – the world’s tallest building – has 163 floors and is clad from top to bottom in LED lighting that’s used for scheduled shows and for booked media …
Valotalive Adds Easy Animation Overlays For Its Digital Signage Presentations December 20, 2019 by Super User The Finnish software firm Valotalive has developed new patent-pending technology designed to overlay content atop other content on digital signage screens. Valotalive says its Overlay Technology is patent-pending, using HTML5 and its own CMS. “The overlay technology provides a novel and refreshing way of combining multiple data sources to the screen. The customer creates an …
Raptors, Leafs Using Hyper-Granular Real-Time Sports Data On Screens Around Home Venue December 19, 2019 by Super User Big sports venues often have screens showing the live TV feed from the rink, court, field or whatever on the public concourses and in places like corporate suites, so that fans can keep half an eye on the action while getting food or mingling, but the screens at the home of Toronto’s Raptors and Maple …
Montreal’s Integrated Health Systems Does Waiting Room Signage Reset December 18, 2019 by Super User This is one of the screens running for the City of Montreal’s Integrated University Health and Social Services – four care organizations spread out across 43 locations. The digital signage network was described as ailing, and Montreal solutions firm VIF Tele won a bid to revamp and reimagine it, working with Philips for displays. The …
David Title Of Bravo Media On Doing Genuinely Experiential Digital Signage December 18, 2019 by Super User Experiential is a huge buzzword these days in the digital signage world, and it tends to get pretty loosely applied to all kinds of things. I’ve seen projects and read PR pieces describing the work as being experiential, and thought, “Ok, in what way?” A creative company down in the Chelsea district has been doing …
The Ever-Loopy Telecine Holiday Video Is Out December 17, 2019 by Super User The Montreal solutions provider Telecine has once again pushed out a loopy video just in time for the holidays – though this one is half new material, half highlight reel from past versions. The premise this time around is that the company is under audit from Revenue Canada for dubious expense claims related to producing …
NYC Office Tower Uses Poems, Prose For Unique LED Ticker In Lobby December 17, 2019 by Super User I was staying down by the World Trade Center in New York last week, and in my efforts to find a specific subway station, I kinda stumbled across 7 World Trade Center – an office tower destroyed and then rebuilt after 9/11. The building’s glass lobby has a giant LED installation by artist Jenny Holzer, which …
LED Canopy Ceiling With Generative Content Designed To Attract Premium NYC Tenants December 17, 2019 by Super User This is the LED ceiling of 250 West 57th Street, up near the south end of Central Park in New York. The 80 foot long by 8 foot wide art installation has been running for the last couple of years, but I just heard about it last week, and found time Friday morning to walk …
See This Liverpool Dockside Museum Projection-Mapped For Christmas Season December 11, 2019 by Super User As spotted via The Guide Liverpool, and Inavate … Projection mapping on buildings is not new, and in certain respects, a lot of the attention recently has gone to cool projection work on indoor surfaces like NHL and NBA playing surfaces. But great work continues to happen outside – like this show running at the …
Lee Horgan On Uniguest’s Lobby-To-Guest-Room View On Hospitality Digital Signage December 11, 2019 by Super User More and more companies involved on the sell and service side of digital signage seem to be picking out business verticals and getting very focused on them. It’s a tactic that can work very well if that company already has a big history and footprint in a vertical, and that’s certainly the case with Uniguest. …
