And the point of this is … is … umm … July 29, 2010 by Super UserAkihabara News is reporting a new Hitachi gesture technology that the Japanese electronics giant thinks has a role in several sectors one day, including digital signage. Here you are the last bit of our tour at Hitachi exhibition, with the company vision of a “Minority Report” like interface. Perhaps closer to Microsoft Kinect UI, Hitachi …
Nice many-many tiled display in Austrian club July 28, 2010 by Super UserMontreal-based Matrox has put out a case study about an impressive install at a club in Linz, Austria. In a nutshell, 40 big flat panels are tiled together and running around the perimeter of the venue. The system runs off three Mac Pros and drives 15 Matrox triple-head video thingdoodles. If I am reading the …
Kroger's digital coupon offer improves bargain-buying, but … July 27, 2010 by Super UserUS grocer Kroger has introduced a digital coupon system that appears to make that whole exercise a lot easier and more interesting. Instead of getting coupons from here and there and everywhere, and printing them off websites or having printers in kiosks, the coupons are all hived together from a central location of the Kroger …
Digital signage for queues controlled by dead-simple touch UI July 26, 2010 by Super UserThe queue management systems business seems really well suited to bolting digital signage on to the offers, since you have people in lines or crowded waiting rooms starting at at a little screen as the numbers count up and down to the time when they can get served. That little screen gets a lot of …
AR app brings old street life back in London July 21, 2010 by Super UserI struggle, a little, with the notion of many of us walking the streets and corridors of our daily lives with smartphones in front of our faces, taking in all the augmented reality enhancements. Will we need to start wearing helmets because we keep crashing into each other as we stare at little screens instead …
Enough with the Minority Report references … July 20, 2010 by Super UserI have been thinking about a digital signage drinking game in which every time I read a story about face counting technology that mentions the flick Minority Report, I run down to the kitchen and pour myself a shot of something. Problem is, I’d be drunk a lot of days by noon. And I really …
Rare street-level interactive sighting in Canada July 19, 2010 by Super UserThere has been very little interactive street-level stuff done in Canada so far, which I find a little baffling. But now and then stuff does pop up, like a BMO Financial Group grassroots soccer campaign running at the company’s flagship downtown Toronto branch. Eight linked LCD screens use a combination of motion capture and touch …
Audience counting gets a yappy new advocate in Mark Cuban July 19, 2010 by Super UserI just invested in a company that takes video of an area and can tell you exactly how many people are in the capture area at any given time. It’s great for traffic patterns, security, and much more. We are posting cameras in certain environments where anonymity is required, and we don’t and won’t capture …
Rise Vision's digital signage offer goes to the cloud July 8, 2010 by Super UserRise Vision/Rise Display has gone through a shuffling and rethinking over the past year, and it’s been pretty clear from chairman Byron Darlisons Twitter and blog posts that the company was taking its services into the cloud and going big-time on open architecture. He put up a post Wednesday that talks about the beta release …
New InWindow movie promo adds 3D interactive July 6, 2010 by Super UserInwindow Outdoor has another nice storefront DOOH program running with a movie house, this time an interesting interactive campaign for Disney’s new Sorcerer’s Apprentice flick. It is the first major use of 3D gesture technology, the company claims, in an outdoor ad display. People who walk up can actually play a game and control the screen …
