Very cool: 3D Projection-Mapping Blasted From Half-mile Out To Sydney Opera House Sails March 18, 2011 by Super UserThis looks pretty spankin’ amazing on a bunch of levels. A week-long music festival in Sydney, Australia will culminate with a performance at the city’s iconic concert hall by the YouTube Symphony Orchestra – some 100 classical musicians from around the globe who auditioned online to be part of this event. The big concert on …
Cheating face detection the Twisted Sister way March 15, 2011 by Super UserI have been doing some writing lately about face detection technology and certainly getting better educated about the issues and arguments around privacy issues as it relates to cameras and software looking for and bracketing faces. Engadget has an interesting piece up about an NYU student who figured out how face detection could be thwarted …
EnQii's Passport enters crowded mobile retail app field March 14, 2011 by Super UserEnQii sent a newsletter/release out late afternoon about its launch of a new mobile phone app called EnGage Passport – a white-labeled application that allows retailers who are using EnQii’s DS platform (or not) to to make targeted savings offers to shoppers when they enter a store. Users download the EnGage Passport app and are …
Augmented Reality meets Kinect, makes Magic … Mirror March 7, 2011 by Super UserTech blogger Robert Scoble has a fascinating guest post up on TechCrunch about a recent visit to the Silicon Valley R&D lab of SRI International, which has some 1,700 researchers doing work on tremendously important things like medical imaging, and not so important things like the future of shopping. I was, of course, most interested …
Are iPads suitable for digital signage? March 3, 2011 by Super UserAre iPads suitable for digital signage? This is more an open question than something I can really answer here, but the all the discussion and attention stirred up by the iPad 2’s release got me thinking. I’d love to hear from people who have taken a crack at using the tablets – or iPad’s increasing …
TI intros new $51 HD video processor for digital signage (among a few things) March 1, 2011 by Super UserExercising the absolute caveat that I am no propeller-head and don’t pretend to understand much of the inner workings or many of the acronyms, I do know enough to find this release today from Texas Instruments quite interesting … TI is introducing a new software compatible, power-efficient TMS320DM8148 DaVinci digital media processor that can do …
Sharp uses mirrored bezels to "hide" video wall seams February 28, 2011 by Super UserOne of the things that caught my eye when running around at DSE was the big three-by-three video wall Sharp had at the front of its booth, and particularly some interesting trickery the manufacturer came up with to somewhat hide the seams between the display panels. This may be an old trick for all I …
Missed DSE? Take tour via video product demo archive … February 27, 2011 by Super UserI was actually AT DSE last week, and I had time to get demos at maybe a half-dozen booths. It would have been great to have the time to actually walk the floor and look around, but I pretty much jogged it between meetings. Lots of other people no doubt found themselves in the same …
Stratacache and Microsoft team up on hyper-efficient embedded media player February 9, 2011 by Super UserMicrosoft has pushed out a release that suggests it is getting deeper into the digital signage sector, having worked with Stratacache to develop the software image for a media player aimed squarely at the retail sector. The Stratacache Spectra S-200 Series 2 media player was configured to run on Windows Embedded Standard 2009, and using just …
rAVe posts almost 500 product videos from ISE 2011 February 7, 2011 by Super UserThis is pretty wild when you think about it – the recent Integrated Systems Europe trade show was three days long, and the actual trade show floor was open a total of 25 hours. Somehow or other Gary Kayye of rAVe [Publications] and his team ran around and shot 480 or so product demo videos. …
