Organizational Communications In A Post-Postmodern World December 15, 2017 by Stu Armstrong GUEST POST: SEAN MATTHEWS, VISIX English doesn’t have a word for it, so we appropriated the German term zeitgeist, which translates as “spirit of the times.” Today, there is certainly something afoot – we can all sense there’s been a shift in the way we think as a culture, and there is much talk about the …
16:9 Projects Podcast: 127 Feet Of Amazing Experiential LED At Chicago’s 150 N. Riverside December 15, 2017 by Danica Trapara Chicago’s 150 Media Stream is a 127-foot long and 19-foot high permanent installation in the lobby of the new 150 North Riverside office building. It is comprised of 89 individual vertical LED displays or ‘blades’ creating a canvas of over 3,000 square feet. The content is driven by an ‘intelligent content library’ that constantly changes …
Denmark’s Realfiction To Launch Large-Format Hologram-like DeepFrame At CES December 13, 2017 by Super User The Danish company that has shown small pyramid-shaped hologram-like displays at recent Digital Signage Expos will be showing a much larger take on mixed reality at the upcoming CES show in Las Vegas. Realfiction will he unveiling DeepFrame, a large glass window that uses the reflection of an OLED display’s image to create an overlay …
Delta Displays Touts Series Of Standardized 16:9 LED Set-Ups December 12, 2017 by Super User Fine pitch LED displays tend to be fitted to the necessary display area – like a lobby or feature wall area that is some sort of rectangle. They’re sold by modules and all those modules tile together to create the necessary shape. So it’s interesting to see a company marketing a solution that is based …
Big Red One’s Museum Goes Interactive In $8M Renovation December 11, 2017 by Super User The First Division Museum at Cantigny Park, in Chicago, recently completed a year-long, $8 million renovation that complete reimagining the presentation of the story behind the U.S. Army’s famed division known as the Big Red One. The new version has extensive storytelling installations that integrate interactive media and other historic artifacts through experiential design. The program …
Giant LED Arch In Oslo Airport Pharmacy Puts Travelers In Holiday Mood December 8, 2017 by Super User This is the Oslo International Airport flagship store of the pharmacy chain Apotek 1, which is part of a big pharmaceutical trader in Europe. It’s probably the first time I’ve seen direct view LED used in a big way at a drug store – in this case a nine metres wide by three tall 3.9mm …
A Queue Management Digital Signage Solution … For Washrooms December 5, 2017 by Super User Spotted by a reader on Reddit … Somewhere in South Korea, there’s a bathroom that has mashed up IoT sensors and digital signage to create what amounts to a queue management system and dashboard for washrooms. This smart toilet information system, set up in a men’s washroom, shows in a graphical display how many toilet …
A Boston College Turns Renovation Tarp On One Building Into Giant Digital Canvas December 4, 2017 by Super User A college building on the corner of Boston Common has a big, white tarp covering the facade for the next 18 months – as it undergoes rears and renovations – so that very large piece of cloth has been turned into a massive projection canvas. Emerson College has projectors blasting visuals from what looks to …
Fine Pitch LED Walls Used For Barneys’ Trippy Holiday Shop Windows December 4, 2017 by Super User Barneys New York has developed a reputation for doing Christmas/Hanukkah season shop window displays that are well outside the holiday norm, and the retailer appears to have really gone for it this year with trippy windows developed by a pair of artist brothers. The 2017 holiday collaboration, Haas for the Holidays, was developed by Simon and Nikolai …
Why Digital Signage At Scale Needs Enterprise Features November 29, 2017 by Super User Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix Even though digital signage can be as simple as a laptop playing a PowerPoint slideshow hooked up to a display, it’s really designed to reach large audiences. Some organizations spread out over multiple floors, multiple buildings or even multiple geographical locations. When you are operating at that scale, the basics …
