Korean University Uses LED-embedded Building Glass With Near 99%+ Transparency August 20, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a video of architectural glass with embedded RGB LEDs that still offer 99%+ transparency – in this case at a university building in South Korea. There may well be engineering, supply and cost reasons why architects and building engineers say this sort of thing is not feasible, but it certainly seems there is …
Intel Winding Down Its RealSense Computer Vision Business: Report August 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes Via CRN The long-running IT publication CRN is reporting that Intel is “winding down” its RealSense computer vision business, meaning its depth sensor cameras are going away just as Microsoft ended production and support for its Kinect sensor cameras. Reports CRN: We are winding down our RealSense business and transitioning our computer vision talent, technology and products …
Philips Pro Displays Can Now Be Managed, Monitored From Crestron Controller Screens August 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes PPDS, the company that markets Philips commercial display solutions, has done an interesting tie-up with AV automation and integration giant Crestron that makes networked screens easily monitored and managed from Crestron’s XiO Cloud solution. The XiO Cloud platform makes it possible to remotely control a screen’s functions from a touchscreen Crestron AV systems controller – …
LG Now Marketing Full Digital Signage Solution, Inc. Software, For QSR Vertical August 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes If you are active on the software side of digital signage, you’ve undoubtedly seen Samsung evolving its MagicINFO software from a low or no-cost add-on for small jobs to a full-featured enterprise platform that competes against pure-play CMS software companies. LG has also had a product called SuperSign in the market for more than a …
Large Format LED Display Sales Returning To Pre-Pandemic Levels: Omdia Research August 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes The latest data from research firm Omdia’s LED Video Displays Market Tracker suggests the video wall market is coming back to pre-pandemic sales levels, and the biggest market demand is for fine pitch product. The recovery of the fine pixel pitch (FPP) category, which includes <=1.99mm, is noticeably faster than other wider pixel pitch categories …
Panasonic Gets Serious About Digital Signage in U.S., Canada; Debuts “Complete Solution” August 11, 2021 by Dave Haynes Panasonic has not been an overly visible player in the North American digital signage ecosystem for many years, but the Japanese visual systems and electronics manufacturer is taking a focused run at the business with what it is calling a Complete Digital Signage Solution. The company has announced what could be called a turnkey solution …
LG Using AI-driven Voice Assistants In Mobile Service Provider Stores In Korea August 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip Craig Keefner at kioskindustry.org for flagging this … LG’s mobile retail wing is starting to use voice recognition technology from an Israeli startup to act as digital assistant at its mobile phone service provider stores in South Korea. Kardome announced it will install its voice activation technology in 2,000 LG Uplus store kiosks …
PORTL’s Transparent Displays Being Used By University’s Health Educators To Demonstrate Disorders August 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes Much of the attention around the use of transparent displays to show people at life-size dimension, in remote locations, has been focused on sectors like events and entertainment, but a Florida university has identified a very different use-case: healthcare education. The University of Central Florida is using LA-based PORTL’s tricked-out transparent flat panels to show …
Sony Building Up Digital Signage CMS Partners In Android/SoC-Focused Collaborative Alliance July 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes Sony wasn’t an overly active or noticed player in digital signage for a bunch of years, but the company has been steadily trying to boost both its profile and its partnership programs in the last 18 months or so. The company recently announced something called the Collaborative Alliances program, which sounded a bit like a …
Some 600 Panasonic Digital Signage Displays In Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium, But No Ticketholders To See Them July 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes The track and field events are now up and literally running at the new National Stadium in Tokyo for the Olympics, allowing viewers to see a lot of large format LED displays. But there are no ticketed spectators, so very few people other than athletes, coaches and officials are seeing more than 600 digital signage …
