The Tech Behind Those Furiously-Spinning LED Holograph-ish Hypervsn Walls July 4, 2018 by Super User I’ve been to a few trade shows now where the fast-spinning LED light sticks – marketed as Hypervsn – attract big crowds and have a lot of people whipping out their phone cameras. The technology definitely creates buzz, so I wanted to know more about the technology and the company behind it. It uses the …
How Tanvas Uses Haptics To Add The Sensation Of Touch To Otherwise Lifeless Displays June 27, 2018 by Super User Imagine if you could feel what you see on a touchscreen. If, for example, you could unzip a zipper by drawing your finger down a screen and experiencing that familiar sensation. That’s the premise behind a Chicago startup called Tanvas, that is using haptics technology to enable users of interactive screens to have genuine touch …
LG Expands Its Range Of OLED Options June 14, 2018 by Super User Just going back through my notes and pix from last week at InfoComm, and remembered how the focal point of LG’s big, impressive booth was OLED displays. The tech has been around for a while now, and LG continues to be the only major display company to drive organic displays as a commercial option. https://twitter.com/tascav/status/1005207317242044416 …
Samsung Shows Back-To-Back Window Display With Different Brightness Levels June 14, 2018 by Super User One interesting thing I spotted at InfoComm, which I don’t think I’ve seen before, was a dual-sided display in the Samsung booth. Now, back-to-back screens is not at all new. Digital OOH street furniture and mall directories are good examples of well-established use-cases. What was different with this one was Samsung touting this unit as …
New Miami Rail Terminal Boasts 325 LED & LCD Screens June 13, 2018 by Super User This is the screen-filled rail terminal for Miami Central – an 11-acre mixed use development and transit hub in that city’s downtown area. The rail terminal is the newly-opened Miami stop for Brightline, the only privately owned, operated and maintained intercity passenger train in the U.S. The company is working with digital signage and entertainment …
Generative Visuals Derived From Famous Artworks Fills Huge LED Canvas At Dolby’s HQ June 13, 2018 by Super User This is a set of digital motion graphics art pieces running at the Dolby Gallery in San Francisco, on a 62-foot wide street-level LED in the lobby. Developed by Chicago experiential design agency Leviathan, Metamorphosis is described as an audiovisual odyssey that extracts brilliant color data from masterpieces of the past century to create an …
LG To Show Its Full Color Transparent LED Film This Week At Infocomm June 4, 2018 by Super User North American pros will get a first look this week at Infocomm at the transparent color LED film that LG first showed a few months ago at ISE in Amsterdam. The film is touted as a way to turn any window or glass surface into a customizable digital canvas. If you were at Infocomm a year …
Chicago Skyscraper’s Observatory Plans Appear To Bake In Vast LED Display Walls June 1, 2018 by Super User I don’t really think of 16:9 as a lead identification tool for vendors, but here’s a pretty damn warm lead for integrators and direct view LED manufacturers: The AON Center is one of Chicago’s best-known office towers, with a position near Lake Michigan and overlooking the city’s vast Millennium Park, which attracts about 13 million …
Call Out For Digital Artists To Populate Digital Signage Screens At NYC’s Fulton Center June 1, 2018 by Super User The team behind the massive digital signage network at the Fulton Center subway station in New York have put a call out for visual artists who want to show their new media work on many screens in and around the facility. MTA Arts & Design wants to “establish a deep pool of fresh new …
City Agrees To Allow LinkNYC Rollout To Slow Down; Provides More Time To Pay May 30, 2018 by Super User Few observers will be surprised to learn the much-touted NYC smart city rollout of screens replacing payphone boxes is not going as well as envisioned. I don’t get to New York that often, but when I do, I see lotsa black and blue screens dotting the sidewalks. I hear the same from people who live …
