InfoComm Digital Signage Industry Mixer Sells Out In Two Hours April 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Well that was quite a bit faster than expected … Registration opened yesterday afternoon for the Buzz & Bullseyes Digital Signage Mixer at InfoComm 2024, and about two hours later, it was sold out. I was thinking two days for the tickets to get allocated, or maybe a bit longer. If you hit the registration …
Registration Now Open For June 13th Digital Signage Industry Mixer At InfoComm April 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes Registration is now open for the big digital signage industry mixer set for June 13th in Las Vegas, during the giant InfoComm pro AV trade show. Admission is free but you’ll need to be on a registration list to get in. That list is attendance-capped because the venue is a bar, not a convention center. …
Neoti At NAB Touting What It Calls First LED Display To Be PANTONE Validated April 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes Indiana-based display manufacturer Neoti is at the big National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas this week showing off what it says the first direct view LED display to get officially validated for supporting PANTONE colors and skin tones. The Bluffton, IN company says PANTONE’s approval and licensing applies to its new UHD …
46 Mapped Projectors Market Star Wars Products On One Face Of NYC’s Empire State Building April 12, 2024 by Dave Haynes Forty-six projector were sync’d and blended to fill the upper levels of one facade of the Empire State Building in New York with a five minute show celebrating the Star Wars movie series and encouraging fans to buy various consumer products marketed by Lucasfilm during its “Imperial March” marketing campaign. The art deco skyscraper, which …
Quick Video: Here’s That Pong Game On Coca-Cola’s Times Square LED Board April 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes If the intent of Coca-Cola’s “Playable Billboard” in Times Square yesterday was to generate a lot of social media buzz, I’m not sure it worked. I poked around this morning and found very little mention of it on X (Twitter), Tik Tok or Linkedin. I found ONE brief video on YouTube, and it doesn’t exactly …
Play Pong In Times Square This Afternoon, On Coca-Cola’s Big LED Board April 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes Starting at 4 this afternoon, and running for six hours, the public is being invited to play the as-retro-as-it-gets Pong arcade game on Coca-Cola’s high profile LED board in New York’s Times Square. The event was developed for the global brand by the agencies Subvrsive, Townhouse and Grey and integrator Diversified also has a hand in it (though …
AV-Driven Portland Event Space Makes Pair Of Mosaic Video Walls Key Elements Of Venue Experience April 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes Clusters of flat panel displays that are not just set in rectangles or tiled rows are something that’s been seen through the years at a lot of trade show booths and in marketing materials, but there hasn’t been much evidence of real-world deployments. They’re out there, but you couldn’t argue that they’re commonplace. That noted, …
InfoComm Digital Signage Mixer Registration Going Live Mid-April April 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes I’m getting emails now asking about the digital signage industry mixer planned for InfoComm in June – particularly since I suggested the registration window will open in April. That will happen the week after next, as some final things get sorted before the publish button gets pushed. This mixer is a joint effort of Bryan …
Video: London’s V&A Museum Turned Into Arcade Game, Using Projections And Game Controllers April 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes This was done a little more than a year ago. I missed it then, but it is still well worth noting … a projection-mapping job that turned a facade at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London into an arcade game screen. A custom video game was developed for Hyundai’s lux Genesis car product, and …
Pop Star Olivia Rodrigo Makes Live Appearance At LA Target Store, But Does So From NYC … Using Transparent LCD Tech April 1, 2024 by Dave Haynes I have my doubts about some of the use-cases I have seen for those shower stall-like transparent LCD box thingies marketed by Proto and a growing number of other companies you might say were “inspired” by the hologram-ish tech the LA company cooked up. But here’s a recent project that I think works well … …
