Real-Time AR-Driven Video Wall Engages Shanghai Subway Riders August 1, 2019 by Super User This is a 10-metre (30-ish feet) wide interactive LCD video wall in a Shanghai subway station that is using augmented reality to get passengers excited about a lemon iced tea product. When people stand in front of it, their faces appear on the screen in real time, adorned by lemon filters and a Vita Lemon …
NanoLumens’ Joe’ Lloyd On How Integrators View The LCD vs LED Video Wall Decision July 31, 2019 by Super User I sometimes get white papers and research that a vendor hopes I report on or talk about, and then decide against it because the information is hopelessly skewed in favor of that vendor. It’s a bit like those recipe pamphlets that suggest you don’t just add a cup of this, it has to be specifically …
Adobe Showing Transparent Retail Display Hardware Concept At SIGGRAPH; And We’re Not Sure Why July 29, 2019 by Super User Creative software giant Adobe continues to dabble in digital signage – first with its own Screens management software and now with display technology. The company will be at the SIGGRAPH gaming tech conference this week in LA showing off some skunkworks R&D tech that looks like transparent LCD and OLED screens got together overnight at …
Planar Starts Marketing 55-Inch LCD Line With Hair-Width Bezels July 23, 2019 by Super User Planar has started making noise about what the display manufacturer says are screens that have the industry’s skinniest bezels. Planar and parent company Leyard says two new 55-inch models in the VM Series have a 0.88mm tiled bezel width. By that, I think that means two edges butted together still result in a seam that …
Abu Dhabi Court Uses Screens To Make Proceedings Almost Totally Digital July 23, 2019 by Super User This probably doesn’t fall into the digital signage bucket, and is much more of an AV job, but it is an interesting application of screens in a workplace. The Abu Dhabi Global Market Courts (ADGM) in guess where is entirely digital – with witnesses, lawyers and plaintiffs able to participate in courtroom proceedings from anywhere, …
Don’t Get Burned: Remote Power For LED Is Unnecessary July 18, 2019 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Eric Seigler, Nanolumens When working with any sort of light-producing electrical product, be it a laptop, a desk lamp, or a commercial digital display, you need to be mindful of the product’s heat output. If you’ve felt the warmth of a computer on your lap or the heat of an older lamp bulb, …
Faux Fireworks On Digital Canvases Complement Real Kabooms On July 4th July 15, 2019 by Super User I’d way rather see the real thing, like here, but putting digital fireworks on giant canvases like projection and LED is still an interesting way to celebrate a national holiday. The LA-based design studio StandardVision has produced and published a pair of videos from earlier this month that show July 4th efforts in Los Angeles …
Wasting Away Past Margaritaville Resorts Many New LED Displays July 15, 2019 by Super User You know LED costs are getting palatable and workable when big outdoor screens formerly reserved for NFL stadiums and high traffic highways and public plazas start being installed besides oversized resort swimming pools. This is the new Margaritaville Resort Orlando, in Kissimmee, which has more than 30 digital displays, including LCD monitors, free-standing kiosks, and interior …
Allsee Debuts Crazy-Thin Double-Sided Window Screens July 8, 2019 by Super User Double-sided LCD displays are definitely not new, nor are super-skinny ones, but the UK display company Allsee Technologies has launched a version that takes a cue from a big competitor, Samsung. The company’s new “Hanging Double-Sided Window Displays” have two different levels of brightness for the screens facing outside and into a business. The outside facing display …
Inkjet Printing Tech Expected To Lower Costs, Up Capacity For Big OLED Screens July 4, 2019 by Super User The research firm IHS Markit says OLED display costs are expected to drop as technology that effectively prints the displays matures and production capacity expands. Inkjet-printed (IJP) organic light emitting diode (OLED) display technology is set to enter mass production next year, with capacity expected to rise as much as 12X from 2020 through 2024, …
