Hologram-ish Santa Offers Gift Ideas To Holiday Travelers At A Toronto Airport January 4, 2024 by Super User I’ve not seen a lot of real-world retail uses for those big transparent LCD shower stall-like displays marketed as holograms, but here’s an interesting pop-up example of one used during the Christmas season in the T3 terminal of Toronto’s main airport. Retail operator Paradies Lagardère – which has a big footprint in airports, hotels and …
McDonald’s In Barcelona Adapts Queue Management-Style Window Screens To Enforce Order For Scooter Delivery Pickups January 3, 2024 by Super User I was intrigued two or three years ago to learn about a QSR operation – I forget which one – that was using digital signage displays in the back-0f-house food prep area to let staff know the anticipated arrival time of delivery vehicles that were tied to GPS and apps, notably Uber Eats. Now that …
Office Tower Elevator’s Controls Tied To Digital Mirrors To Show Floor Location December 18, 2023 by Super User A UK company called iFaceMirror has been putting LCD-backed digital mirrors in the interiors of elevator (lift) cars for a bunch of years, with their purpose heavily focused on advertising and branding for the venue or the businesses in that office tower, hotel or shopping space. So I was intrigued by this video (below) that …
Denmark’s Realfiction Expanding Beyond Hologram-ish Displays With New Multi-View Tech December 15, 2023 by Super User The Danish display tech firm Realfiction is best known for its merchandising-sized holographic-ish displays that use a variation on the old Pepper’s Ghost reflected visual illusion technique, but next month during CES in Las Vegas it is planning to show and demo technology that shows different visuals to different viewers. The company is not at …
Watch: 164 Smartphones Stacked Like Christmas Tree To Create Unique Video Wall December 14, 2023 by Super User This is a fun retail project in Chile that somehow or other sync’s up 164 Samsung Galaxy smartphones to deliver messages on a digital Christmas tree. The set-up uses Novisign’s CMS software and its “Screen Sync” to get all the phones mapped and capable of behaving like a very big and complicated video wall, except …
Staying On Top Of Seasonal Promotions And Messaging Gets Easier, More Accurate, Using Digital Signage December 14, 2023 by Emily McCue Baldeschwiler Guest Post: Emily McCue Baldeschwiler, Spectrio There is a lot more to seasonality in retailing and food services than spring, summer, fall and winter, and digital signage technology offers a way for operators to not only stay on top of all the changes seasonality requires, but also profit from them. Consumers are familiar with products and …
Black Rifle Coffee Starts Rolling Out CRI’s Digital Signage Solution Across Its Chain December 13, 2023 by Super User Creative Realities, Inc. has announced a deal that will see its digital signage solutions built in to the customer experience for locations of Black Rifle Coffee, a US coffee chain that has close ties with active-duty military members, veterans, and first responders. The solution is in place in a new-design store, and the intention is …
Showcase Cinemas Sees 20% Lift In Food And Bev Sales After 568 Screen Modernization December 12, 2023 by Super User Wide ribbons of digital menu displays isn’t an overly new feature in the cinema business, but what’s interesting with a rollout across the Showcase Cinemas U.S. estate is word that the screens generate a 20% lift in sales at moviehouse snack counters. One of the world’s oldest and most recognized global theatre chains out there, …
Public Information Display Market Up Almost 14% Year On Year: Omdia December 11, 2023 by Super User New research released by Omdia suggests the public information display market has bounced back from a dip a year ago, with interactive displays being the biggest growth driver in sales and shipments. The research firm Omdia says in highlights from its fee-based Public Display Market Tracker 3Q23 that the public display market saw a 13.8% …
I Just Don’t Get The Fascination With These Things December 8, 2023 by Super User There are some good examples of real-world installations of those madly-spinning LED light wand thingies, and when I come across them, I write about them. But I have also seen so many crappy demos, like this one off in a corner at this week’s sensory-overloading LDI show in Las Vegas. The companies who market this …
