Projection-Mapped Church Show Draws Almost 100K Paid Viewers Over Its Run In Bordeaux January 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes A lot of the recent attention around projection-mapped environments lately has been with commercial attractions – like Illuminarium and Montreal’s Oasis Immersion – but there’s also interesting work going on that delivers experiences but also has broader benefits. A projection-mapped show, mixed with live orchestral music, sold almost 100,000 tickets during a just-finished run at …
Video: Highlight Reel Of Samsung’s CES Booth, Including That Transparent MicroLED January 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes You can get a better look at at what’s arguably the most pro AV-relevant new tech at Samsung’s CES stand in this video, and with it some big hints about what the Korean giant will have at its big ISE stand at the end of the month. There are a few seconds and different angles …
Nsign.TV To Show Off New IoT Module At ISE Stand January 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes Getting to Integrated Systems Europe at the end of the month will be particularly easy for Nsign.TV, since Barcelona is already home to the CMS softare and solutions firm. The company will be showing off a new IoT module for its platform. It works with technologies such as facial recognition cameras, NFC, RFID, QR codes, …
Dise Releases Nex-Gen Digital Signage Playout Ahead Of ISE 2024 January 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes Sweden-based Dise, heavily focused on retail experience management, has announced its “next-generation” playout engine ahead of Integrated Systems Europe, with foundational technology built on HTML5 and offering cross-platform functionality for a variety of devices. “We are very proud to finally be able to show what our next generation playout engine can do,” says Daniel Bloch, …
ISE Clarifies Badge Situation, Moves Up Opening Hours To Ease Expected Congestion January 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes I have questions in to ISE, and specifically show director Mike Blackman about the badge printing and pick-up issue at ISE in three weeks from today. I’m not sure I will hear back because A) the team is undoubtedly slammed and B) I’m probably not all that popular after suggesting the plans for the 2024 …
LG Launches 77-inch Transparent OLED For Consumer Market, Prompting The Reasonable Question: “Why?” January 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes LG has been trying for many years to find a commercial demand for its transparent OLED displays, and not seeing much take-up – something that likely owes to the serious price premium and that annoying “Why?” question. Now the Korean tech giant has launched a version for the consumer market, which will inevitably prompt a …
Samsung Teases Frameless Transparent MicroLED Display At CES January 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes Photo Credit – Sam Rutherford/Engadget CES is this week in Las Vegas, and while a hell of a lot of the reporting that comes out of the giant consumer tech show will involve stuff that will never really be available to buy and use, there are glimpses as always of what’s coming somewhere down the …
ISE Updates: Mixer Status, DSS Conference Agenda, And A Key Tip On Getting In To The Show January 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes I was out walking with my wife Joy late yesterday, trying to march off some of unfortunate tummy expansion incurred in holiday eating and drinking, and saying, “Holy crap, we head to Barcelona in three weeks!” That trip and show came up fast, and I am now heavily into pulling together a variety of things …
CES Is Imminent, And The Big Consumer Brands Are Once Again Previewing Interesting But Dubious Concept Products January 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes The giant consumer-focused tech trade show CES is next week in Las Vegas, and there will be all kinds of digital signage and pro AV people going and enduring the line-ups and even-higher-then-normal prices for rooms and transport. The show doesn’t have a whole bunch to do with commercial AV, other than offering glimpses of …
DSE 2023 Recap Suggests Attendance Of Roughly 3,000; Most Of Them Buyers Designers Or Specifiers December 21, 2023 by Dave Haynes The 2023 edition of Digital Signage Experience (DSE) pulled roughly 3,000 attendees earlier this month in Las Vegas, with the show’s organizers noting that just shy of 80% of those attendees were buyers, or from companies that design, specify and put in digital signage and DOOH networks. Show owner Questex followed a press release earlier …
