DSE 2019 Booth Previews: Premier Mounts Shows How Digital Signage Deployed Anywhere Imaginable February 18, 2019 by Dave Haynes Premier Mounts – DSE Booth Number 1918 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Premier Mounts manufactures some of the best display mounts to enable digital signage. We have an engineering division focused around video walls and direct-view LED technology. Most recently, they have …
16:9 Podcast – From ESLs to Avatars At NRF 2019 January 23, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is a special edition of the podcast, which I am pretty much whacking together myself, in the wake of running around the NRF show last week in New York. I had my handy little Tascam recorder with me, so I grabbed some quick interviews with several companies I bumped into, with the idea of …
Navori Debuts “Insane” Capability To Drive 16 Different Signals To 16 HD Screens Off One Player December 17, 2018 by Dave Haynes The Swiss software firm Navori will be showing some new in-house technology at ISE that it says gets an “insane” amount of display performance out of a single playback box. The Swiss as people aren’t typically known for hyping the hell out of things, so Navori’s marketers must be dead-serious when they take an internal …
Intel Adds More Data, Capabilities To Its Real Sense Depth-Sensing Cameras November 14, 2018 by Dave Haynes Stressing that I have only a fleeting command of the technical details of this, it is nonetheless interesting and useful to point out to solutions providers and experiential designers that Intel’s camera for tracking things like gestures just got better. The Intel RealSense Depth Camera D435i has “a new inertial measurement unit that enables developers …
PowerPoint-based Digital Signage Platform Offers All-In $190 Solution November 8, 2018 by Dave Haynes Mention PowerPoint as a digital signage tool and a lot of industry people go into teenager eye-rolling mode. But that’s a bit unfair, as I don’t think it’s ever wise to dismiss a presentation tool familiar and used by millions and millions of business people, globally. I got a note the other day from a …
The Value Of Protecting Your Digital Signage Displays November 5, 2018 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Daniel Waldron, Armagard Protecting your digital signage is a necessity. The risks and consequences of not protecting your displays include weather damage, vandalism and theft. Knowing what your digital signage is up against underlines the value of protecting your displays. With that in mind, here’s the case for safeguarding your digital signage. 1. …
LG Holding Nov. 1 Tech Tour Digital Signage Event In NYC October 9, 2018 by Dave Haynes It looks LG has a big cross-section of companies co-exhibiting with it at its Tech Tour event in New York on Nov. 1. LG’s commercial display partners at the event in Hell’s Kitchen include BrightSign, Chief, Peerless Av and numerous CMS companies like Gauddi (from the Netherlands), Hughes, Omnivex, Ping HD, Skykit, Tripleplay and 22 …
VIA Launches New Android 8.0, AI-Ready Digital Signage Player September 25, 2018 by Dave Haynes Taiwan’s VIA Technologies has done a significant upgrade on its line of ruggedized Android digital signage players, releasing what it calls the VIA ALTA DS 3 Edge AI system. The $400 MSRP units are run off the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820E Embedded Platform and Android 8.0. Previous versions, while powerful, were several generations back at Android …
UK’s Ultrahaptics Launches Plug And Play Device For Touch-Free Interactive Screens September 18, 2018 by Dave Haynes A UK company has released a plug and play device that allows digital signage and interactive solutions companies to easily develop immersive screen projects that use haptics technology. The new STRATOS Inspire uses arrays of ultrasonic transducers to project haptic feedback directly onto users’ hands, creating the sense of touch in mid-air. Ultrahaptics’ patented technology controls …
iBase Unveils Beefy New PC Digital Signage Player With NVIDIA Graphics Card September 10, 2018 by Dave Haynes The digital signage market seems to be shifting pretty significantly to special purpose boxes (like Brightsign’s) and smart displays, but there is still a market out there for PCs as players, and companies pushing out some beefy product. Taiwan’s iBase has announced its SI-614 digital signage player – a PC using a 7th Gen Intel …