Orlando Airport Installing 1,561-foot Continuous Video Wall At Airline Counters September 28, 2016 by Super User Orlando International Airport is in the process of putting in some 700 55-inch ultra-thin-bezel videowall displays in the departures area behind airline counters to create a continuous 1,561-foot digital display wall. The airport authority is putting another 350 in double-sided overhead videowalls intended for wayfinding from the check-in areas to concessions and other services leading to security checkpoints, …
Face Pattern Tech Used In Fun Interactive GMC Campaign September 26, 2016 by Super User The whole serve-content-based-on-who/what-is-in-front-of-a-screen thing has never really taken off for the video analytics people, but here’s a fun campaign that does a nice job with the technology. A campaign for a GM vehicle used face pattern detection technology to pick up the gender, facial expression, age and composition of the passing audience and then serve branded content …
Projects: Virtual Coloring Books On Streets Of Sydney And Melbourne September 26, 2016 by Super User If were walking a busy downtown street, would you stop at a digital poster to do some virtual coloring? That was the premise and attraction of a relaunch campaign in Australia last month for a mineral water/juice product that’s part of the Coca-Cola family. The media firm JCDecaux, Ansible, UM, Saatchi & Saatchi NZ and …
Projects: Giant Digital “StoryWall” Fills Suburban LA Cinema September 26, 2016 by Super User Cinema lobbies continue to one of the hotter environments for ambitious, big budget signature displays – with the latest evidence of that a 96-panel “StoryWall” at the ArcLight Cinemas in Sherman Oaks, California. The beast is about 50-feet wide and 15-feet high, and runs a matrix of movie posters or full-wide visuals about a specific …
Key Copy Kiosk Shows What Much Interactive Retail Should Really Be About September 16, 2016 by Super User Here’s a great example of an interactive screen solution, coupled with a machine, that goes to the heart of what any of this “customer engagement” stuff should be about – making something faster, better and easier for consumers. In this case, it’s a kiosk that can copy a house, car or other key in a …
Lock Down Your Tablet Kiosk Screens With These 5 Easy Tips September 15, 2016 by Ryan Cahoy Guest Post: Jon Sproule, Armodilo Display Solutions This blog had a post up recently that showed how easy it can be for pranksters to interfere with your carefully considered tablet kiosk deployment. We think about and protect tablet-powered kiosks all day long, but on the hardware side. It’s not a surprise when security gets overlooked on the …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Luka Birsa, Visionect September 14, 2016 by Super User This week, I’m speaking with Luka Birsa, the CTO and co-founder of Visionect, a Slovenian tech company focused on solutions that use Electronic Ink. If you’ve got a Kindle or Kobo e-reader, think of that display but used instead for updated bus schedules at stops, or for telling people whether a meeting room is booked …
E-Paper Hits The Road On German 18-Wheeler Billboards September 12, 2016 by Super User If you drive busy highways, you’ve no doubt seen your share of the back doors of 18-wheel transport trucks. So what if that space was used for location-specific advertising and traffic tips? That’s the idea behind RoadAds interactive, a German company that is, in effect, putting eight giant Kindles on the back doors of a …
Connected Screen Demo Shows How Interactive Digital Signs Can Be Contactless Payment Terminals September 10, 2016 by Super User The transaction processing company Ingenico is demonstrating a slick “connected screen” concept at the Toronto International Film Festival that allows people to just wave their Visa credit card at an LCD screen to make a donation. This is the first North American demonstration of a concept that’s been shown in Europe – enabling people who …
LG Creates Massive, Genuinely Immersive OLED Display Tunnel September 7, 2016 by Super User The IFA consumer electronics show that’s been running the last few days in Berlin includes a mind-wobbling welcome tunnel to the LG booth, made up of 216 55-inch curved OLED panels. The OLED tunnel is five metres tall, 7.4 metres wide and 15 metres long, and the pixel count goes past half a billion. The content varies …
