Projects: BMO Lights Up Twin Video Walls In Toronto’s PATH System June 24, 2016 by Super User This is a pair of 3 by 5 video walls, using 55-inch narrow bezel displays, in the underground PATH concourse system/maze that connects most of the big office towers in downtown Toronto. Done for BMO Financial Group, the wall is in the walkway system at BMO’s flagship location, First Canadian Place. The guys who put it …
NanoLumens’ AWARE Adds CMS, Android Media Player To Indoor LED Display Offer June 20, 2016 by Super User The lines between hardware and software makers in digital signage continue to blur, with news that Atlanta-based LED display manufacturer NanoLumens now has a content management and remote management software suite, and a dedicated Android media player that will ship with its new displays. This is a bit along the lines of how the LCD …
InfoComm 2016 Roundup: Any Surface Is A Canvas June 17, 2016 by Super User InfoComm 2016 in Las Vegas left systems integrators and visual designers with a vast menu of possibilities for turning just about any surface into a digital canvas. The annual pro-AV show – which focuses on audio-visual gear – had two full convention center halls of diverse technology, and attracted 10s of 1,000s of attendees – …
InfoComm 2016: Day 2 Impressions June 10, 2016 by Super User The more I walked and talked here at InfoComm, the more I was drawing conclusions around what digital signage displays look like in the next five years. First, many or most of the the single displays are going to ship with embedded intelligence on them. Whatever you think of System on Chip displays, pretty much …
InfoComm 2016: Day One Impressions June 9, 2016 by Super User As warned, there are indoor LED displays everywhere at this year’s edition of the big InfoComm systems integrator-pro AV nerdfest in Las Vegas. There are two massive halls for this show, and LED companies are all over the footprint of both of them. There is by no means just an area designated for them. What …
Google Releases Open Source Software Library For Interactive Displays June 3, 2016 by Super User I’ll leave it to people who code, and their masters, to determine if this is, in some way, relevant to the digital signage market, but from my unschooled perspective this new open source interactive display software from Google looks pretty interesting. Google’s Creative Lab describes AnyPixel.js as “an open-source software and hardware library that makes …
Projects: University Of Kent Using Signage To Connect Students To Services June 3, 2016 by Super User The University of Kent, in the south of England, is using digital signage at its redeveloped library to help students find and use services. Thirty-five Samsung Smart Signage displays have been installed around the library by UK-based Eclipse Digital Media, using the cloud-based digital signage software, embed signage. “Navigating around the large 15,000 sq. metre space for up …
Leyard Debuts Series Of Light, Skinny Carbon Fiber LED Displays June 2, 2016 by Super User When I was over at the ISE show in Amsterdam a few months ago, I remember seeing a Shenzhen company that had a set of lightweight, skinny and flexible LED display products that I thought would make the NanoLumens guys think, “Gee, that looks familiar.” But the company was one I’d never heard of, so …
NBA’s Raptors Visualize Data From IBM’s Watson To Build Team’s Future June 2, 2016 by Super User The NBA’s Toronto Raptors had a good playoff run once their key guards remembered how to shoot, but the ownership and management team is also using less obvious cues and clues from visualized data to build the club’s future. In mid-season, the team launched IBM Sports Insights Central, a data viz set-up using MultiTaction’s software and hardware …
Digital Meeting Room Signs Start-up Gets $7M Series A Raise June 1, 2016 by Super User I keep reading and hearing how venture capital is hard to come by these days, in digital signage and well beyond, but one Boston-based company has scored a $7 million investment to drive its business in digital meeting room signs. Yup, that boring little killer application that sells itself as soon as people see it. …
