Paris 2024 Cycling Track Was Projection-Mapped Before Big Races August 13, 2024 by Super User Withe the Olympics now over I am guessing the PR reins have been loosened for some of the companies that provided solutions for venues, and I came across a Panasonic Connect post on Linkedin about the cool use of projection mapping at the cycling venue. Panasonic was a global sponsor of the Olympics. The velodrome …
Airport Restaurant Publishes Real-Time Service Wait Times Next To Departure, Gate Walk Times Info June 5, 2024 by Super User The awards post I just published referenced my affection for stuff that might be regarded as pedestrian or even boring, and a quick glance at Linkedin revelaed a great example of that in an airport in northern Europe. A food concessions operator at the airport – not sure where, but in the Nordics region – …
Data-Driven Generative Art Used For Canadian Bank’s Video Wall At Busy Transit Hub Branch May 15, 2024 by Super User This is an interesting use of an LED video wall at the front of a very public bank branch – the TD Canada Trust branch at Toronto’s Union Station, a hub for passenger rail, commuter rail and commuter buses, as well as a main subway stop. The branch has a big 12 foot by 6 …
Real-Time Transit Info Screens In Nottingham, England So Bad City Council Sends “We Share Your Frustrations” Email To Riders May 1, 2024 by Super User It’s never a good thing when a city’s mass transport authority sends a note to passengers to concede the real-time information screens at stops along its routes tend to either be blank, or showing inaccurate information. Nottingham City Transport is the UK sent an email saying it shared their frustrations about displays that appear to …
British Signage Language Displays Added To Digital Signage Mix At Scotland’s Busiest Rail Stations April 15, 2024 by Super User Mass transport environments have long used digital signage technology to relay important travel information to people rushing to catch planes, trains and buses, but the focus has mainly been on re-packaging real time data like gate and platform assignments as visual text presentations on screens. Now a UK rail system has started installing customer information …
LA Developer Makes Big 90-Degree LED Billboard Key Architectural Feature Of New Commercial Block March 1, 2024 by Super User Commercial property owners in big markets are pretty regularly now scheming digital billboards into the building designs as revenue sources, particularly when the site has a lot of profile and traffic. That’s the certainly the case with a small but interesting development in LA that has a big 90-degree screen kind of jutting out at …
United Airlines Using “Headless” Digital Experience Platform To Drive Some 1,800 Screens February 22, 2024 by Super User US air carrier United Airlines has started rolling out color-coded directional signage for print and digital in the pre-security “lobbies” of some of the airports it serves, responding to customer feedback that what was in place needed work. In an interesting twist, Linkedin posts talking up the new look for signage reference how United’s digital …
JFK’s T4 Adds 11 Synect ReadySeeGo Totems To Guide, Inform Air Travelers At TSA Checkpoints November 15, 2023 by Super User The private operators of Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York has added 11 of Synect’s ReadySeeGo Digital Communication Totems to a pair of TSA security checkpoints, in an effort to help travelers get through the rigamarole of commercial air travel. The LCD totems use Synect’s Passenger360 visual communication platform to …
Shape-Shifting Data Vizualization Illuminates Entire Side Of World’s Tallest Skyscraper October 23, 2023 by Super User This would have to be the largest LED surface to date used as a digital canvas for public art – one whole side of the world’s tallest building. The Burj Khalifa – not sure when, as details are minimal – but it appears to be a recent thing. The skyscraper is clad at least on …
London’s Outernet Immersive (And Free) Visuals Experience Continues To Impress And Draw Crowds October 2, 2023 by Super User One of the sites I really wanted to see a second time while in London was the Outernet development in the center of the city, on the fringes of Soho and beside the Tottenham Court Road Station on the new-ish Elizabeth Line subway. It’s pretty amazing. The Now Building, the primary venue that has some …
