Gable Hires On Director To Head 17-Designer Visual Communications Team July 10, 2018 by Super User I don’t tend to run much news about new hires at companies, because the reader analytics clearly indicate few of you care. BUT, this one is kind of interesting. Baltimore-based AV design and solutions firm Gable, which has grown increasingly involved in this sector in the last 2-3 years, has hired on a Design Director …
How To Make Your Digital Signage More Effective, With A/B Testing July 10, 2018 by Kenneth Brinkmann Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix In order to truly use your organizational digital signage to its fullest potential, you need to have a system of continuous assessment in place – what works, what doesn’t and how can less effective messages be improved to get people to follow your calls-to-action? One way to peek under the …
Why Open Digital Signage Is A Competitive Advantage – Part 2 July 9, 2018 by Jami McGraw Guest Post: John Wang, IAdea Corporation In Openness as a Competitive Advantage – Part I, published in March 2018, I shared an example of successfully winning a prominent financial institution client who needed an open platform solution. In that case, the in-house AV/IT crew wanted the ability to perform customizations for business objectives that were …
Ultrahaptics Offers Touch Experiences For Screens, Without Touching The Screens July 9, 2018 by Super User Way back in the corner of DSE, in the innovation zone, a Bristol, UK company called Ultrahaptics was demonstrating tech that creates the sensation of touch in mid-air, in front of digital screens. The ultra-sound technology uses micro-blasts of air that can be sculpted to create the sensation of feeling 3D shapes, buttons, switches and …
How Projection Mapping Got Small, Affordable And Easy Via SF Startup Lightform June 20, 2018 by Super User One of the most interesting companies I saw recently at InfoComm in Las Vegas was Lightform, a San Francisco start-up that is making the once dark art of projection mapping available to just about everyone. It wasn’t that long ago that projection mapping was all about very ambitious, very complicated, very expensive projects that only …
Swiss Company Uses Mash-Up Of Web, Mobile And Signage To Reach Hard-To-Reach Workers June 18, 2018 by Super User Via HospitalityNet A Swiss company called Beekeeper is using a cross-platform blend of web, mobile and digital signage to inform and motivate back of house workers in a variety of industries, such as hospitality. The company recently announced a deal to provide its digital workforce platform for operational communications at SIXTY Hotels, a small luxury lodgings chain. While …
Philippines Mall Projection-Maps 50-Foot Tree Of Life As Shopper Attraction June 15, 2018 by Super User This is a 15-meter fiberglass sculpture used as the projection mapping canvas for a permanent attraction at the Robinsons Place Naga shopping mall, in a Philippines city about 400 kms southeast of Manila. The premium mall’s digital art experience is called “Tree of Life” and was put together by Filipino-American artist and landscape architect Jefre …
Sound In Digital Signage?: Screenfeed Sees Market For Audio-Driven Sports Packages June 15, 2018 by Super User Screenfeed has done sports updates for as long as its been doing subscription content for digital signage networks, but the Twin Cities company is now offering sports video highlight, interview and commentary packages that are built around audio. The company this week pushed out a notice to customers saying: Score the attention of the sports …
NEC’s Cool Projected Menu Board June 14, 2018 by Super User I liked this nice concept NEC had at its booth last week at InfoComm – a menu wall using projection on a textured, wood surface. This is very different from a row of LCD menus set together in an array. In this case, a laser projector beamed the menu options on a dark wood feature …
DC-area Office Tower Uses LED To Visually Energize Lobby June 12, 2018 by Super User This is the lobby of the 31-story CEB Tower in Arlington, Virginia, in the immediate orbit of Washington, DC. The building’s centerpiece visual is a 19 feet high by 38 feet wide 4mm pitch LED wall that fronts and wraps around the end of the facade of the elevator shaft. It uses Sansi’s LED technology and content …
