Napa Winery Uses Projections To Visualize Data On Fermentation Room Dome August 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes Real-time data visualization as dashboards are increasingly common use-cases for digital signage technology in production environments but a wine producer in California’s Napa region is using it in a very interesting way – projecting the data coming from its fermentation tanks on the ceiling of the room where they’re operating. Six Christie laser projectors are …
3D Display Firms Leia, Dimenco Merge To Create Cross-Platform Solution August 8, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Silicon Valley technology firm Leia, which is focused on 3D display hardware and content services, has acquired the Dutch specialty display manufacturer Dimenco, whose main product is also all about 3D. This strategic move, says PR on the deal, unites the capabilities of two leaders in the 3D market, set to accelerate mainstream adoption …
JD Sports Pairs AR Virtual Try-On Solution With Big Video Wall In Two US Stores August 4, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is an AR mirror set-up used in a couple of U.S. locations (New York Times Square and Chicago State Street) for the retailer JD Sports, which sells guess what. Virtual try-on mirrors have been around for ages, and have improved by leaps and bounds in terms of the way they work and look. This …
Japanese Railway Auto-Translates Customer Queries As Chats On Transparent Screens In Station August 3, 2023 by Dave Haynes A Japanese passenger railway has started testing a service that auto-translates conversations at customer information counters – enabling foreign travellers with little or no Japanese to get answers returned in their language on a transparent screen that sits between the railway staffer and the traveler. Seibu Railway is testing what it calls polyglot simultaneous translation …
Upgraded Munich Commuter Rail Lines To Get Some 15,000 Screens August 3, 2023 by Dave Haynes German language content partner invidis is reporting today how the commuter trains in its home city of Munich will be upgraded in roughly five years with scores of stretched LCD displays and two-by-two video walls. The new S-Bahn trains, made by Siemens, are scheduled to go into service with passengers from the end of 2028. …
Chick-fil-A Building New Store With Four Drive-Thru Lanes And Walk-Up Location With No Digital Menu Displays July 31, 2023 by Dave Haynes Drive-thru has been a huge part of the business for many to most QSR operators in North America, and pandemic-driven restrictions made that method of taking and fulfilling fast food orders essential – leading to something of a boom in demand for outdoor-rated pre-sell and menu displays, as well as the underlying technology. Now we’re …
The 2023 Digital Signage Yearbook Now Available As A Free Download July 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes The 2023 version of the annual invidis digital signage yearbook is now available as a free download. The publication – done both as an oversized print magazine and as a PDF – has some 200 pages of stories, studies, analyses and market data, primarily about the European market. For the past two years, Sixteen:Nine has …
Another Robotic LED DOOH Display Surfaces – Shape-Shifting In Seoul July 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes A vendor has passed along a link to a video showing its robotic LED DOOH billboard operating in Seoul, with the assertion that the unit has been mechanically shape-shifting without incident for more than a year. The manufacturer PJ Link was responding to a recent Linkedin repost I did about a kinetic display being used …
LG-Lufthansa JV Touts 55-Inch Displays As Commercial Aircraft Digital Signage July 21, 2023 by Dave Haynes Pro display manufacturers and software vendors are always looking for high-flying market opportunities, but I’m not sure digital signage in commercial aircraft cabins is the answer. A company called AERQ has partnered with a designer/manufacturer of aircraft cabin interiors on what it calls AERENA cabin digital signage – 55-inch super-skinny LCD panels that would integrate …
MiniLED Mainstreaming, While True MicroLED For Pro Displays Still Years Off: Futuresource InfoComm Report July 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes The UK-based research firm Futuresource sends teams of analysts to the major pro AV trade shows, and there were several people in Orlando last month for InfoComm – resulting in part in a round-up deck that the company kindly makes available as a free download to the industry at large. Portland, OR-based Ted Romanowitz does …
