NanoLumens Adds Streaming Artwork Capability To Its Display Playback Platform January 19, 2018 by Super User Atlanta-based LED display company NanoLumens has added an art streaming platform called Loupe to its AWARE third-party app store, making it possible for end-users to populate their digital display installations with curated portfolios of photography and artwork collections. “Fine art displays can be a major expense for airports, transit terminals and corporate lobbies, and more often than …
Digital Signage In A Post-Digital Display World January 17, 2018 by Christina Condomaros Guest Post: Ryan Cahoy, Rise Vision This spring, Steven Spielberg will treat audiences to a story millions of readers already know: Ready Player One. The story takes place in a world where people rise and fall in an entirely VR world. It’s a concept that’s becoming more and more of a reality each year. Over …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Sakchin Bessette On How Moment Factory Grew Into One Of World’s Top Multimedia Agencies January 17, 2018 by Super User Fantastic creative is at the heart of any great digital signage project, and when I am asked to rattle off the names of creative shops capable of doing top-level work, Moment Factory is automatically in there. The Montreal-based creative technology group has evolved from a small collective doing VJing and just, basically, have a …
Digital Signage Awards Entries Now Shortlisted, Winners Announced Feb. 7 at ISE January 8, 2018 by Super User The judges for the Digital Signage Awards have put in their assessments and short lists have been developed across the various categories. The winners will be announced and awards handed out on February 7 at Integrated Systems Europe, as part of the trade show’s Digital Signage Summit. I’m among the judges and can say there were …
Canada’s National Arts Centre Switches On North America’s Largest Transparent LED Wall January 1, 2018 by Super User Last night, on a very frigid New Year’s Eve, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Canada officially switched on a three-storey signature LED display called the Kipnes Lantern. It is the largest transparent LED screen in North America and fills the windows of the newly rejuvenated building in the capital city. It is using Vancouver-based …
Hogwarts Castle Gets Projection-Mapped For Christmas December 28, 2017 by Super User This is the Christmas projection mapping show running on the exterior of the Hogwarts Castle, which is the main feature (I think) of the Harry Potter attraction at the Universal Studios theme park in Orlando. It’s a seven-minute show that’s interesting, particularly, for the technical challenge of mapping digital visuals on a canvas that is …
A Totally Unfiltered, Public Digital Messaging System – What Could Go Wrong??? December 28, 2017 by Super User There is much hand-wringing underway in Toronto after a new subway station opened with a $500,000 art installation that let anyone walk up to a kiosk and put up a brief eight-character message on a set of suspended lights. The installation at the city’s just-opened new Pioneer Village station serves as functional lighting but the …
Twin LED Walls Light Up 55 Water Lobby In Wall Street December 26, 2017 by Super User This is a nice pair of 20 by 8 foot fine pitch LED screens that have been lit up in the lobby of 55 Water Street, in the Wall Street district of Lower Manhattan. The total resolution on the screens is 6,400 by 1,260 pixels, which I assume means each of them is 3,200 by …
Telecine Is Back With Another Loopy Holiday Video December 20, 2017 by Super User Here’s this year’s loopy holiday video from the folks up at Montreal’s Telecine, a digital signage solutions provider. Last year, it was the Pantenna …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Rob Gorrie, Bricks + Matter December 20, 2017 by Super User Rob Gorrie is among the most digitally-savvy and sharp people I know – some of that based on the DNA of a family that’s been doing marketing for more than a century. But it’s also based on a pile of real world experience starting and running digital companies. The one Gorrie’s been focused on for …
