Ultraleap Raises $82M From Investors To Drive R&D, Sales For Touchless Interactive Tech November 17, 2021 by Super User Ultraleap, the UK/US tech firm that specializes in touchless interactive interfaces, has announced a big $82 million Series D investment round that will help drive R&D efforts and a push into target vertical markets. The company, which came out of the merger of Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion, specializes in mid-air hand tracking and haptic feedback …
WaitTime Expands Crowd Analytics Service Into Mega-Malls In Cisco-Intel Partnership November 17, 2021 by Super User The load-balancing outcomes the Detroit start-up WaitTime brings to sports and entertainment venues has always seemed like a smart play, but I am not sure about the company’s new partnership with tech giants Cisco and Intel for places like giant shopping malls. The three have “collaborated to deliver an artificial intelligence (AI) solution that provides …
TransitScreen Rebrands Its Visualized Transport Info Platform As Actionfigure November 16, 2021 by Super User The Washington, DC start-up that has focused on real-time public display dashboards for mass transport and mobility options in big cities has rebranded itself from TransitScreen to Actionfigure. Our Actionfigure rebrand brings all of our software solutions together under a single name with a unified look and feel, the company says in an email blast today. …
Uniguest’s M&A Flurry Continuing; Adds Volara’s Interactive Voice Platform To Solution Set November 3, 2021 by Super User Nashville-based Uniguest is continuing its acquisitive ways – with the “digital engagement technology” firm announcing of Volara, an NYC firm specializing in voice-based engagement software. Already managing more than 20,000 voice assistant solutions at over 400 locations, says the announcement, Volara now launches Uniguest’s voice technology division, positioning the company to bring voice-based contactless engagement …
Toronto Commuter Transport Network Expanding Use Of Real-Time Digital Signage Across Hubs November 2, 2021 by Super User People who need to regularly get around and across the Toronto area will be familiar with that busy city’s mass transport system, which involves commuter rail and buses and hooks in, where it can, with the city’s subway system. There has been digital signage for years inside stations, but now Metrolinx, the umbrella organization that …
Modernizing Corporate Digital Signage In The Enterprise November 1, 2021 by Daniel Hurtado Guest Post: Daniel Hurtado, Userful In today’s corporate landscape, interconnection is paramount for organizations to thrive, and maybe even survive. Increasingly, our interconnectedness is visual, and companies are using visual tools to communicate, leveraging video, images, dashboards and more. The need for those visual tools, along with the decreased price of screens, advancements in technology …
Video: We Go Walkies At InfoComm 2021 With Manny And Ben Of Q Division October 28, 2021 by Super User Manolo Almagro and Ben Gauthier from the consultancy Q Division are down at InfoComm walking the floor and getting set to speak tomorrow morning. They very kindly offered to give me a quick walk-around and impressions from the floor. The quick summary: it’s busier than expected, but in the context of digital signage, there’s not …
Poland’s Screen Network Raising Climate Change Awareness Using Warsaw LED Countdown Clock October 28, 2021 by Super User The Polish OOH media firm Screen Network has started supporting an educational campaign that bluntly reminds people how time is running out to make the industrial and behavioral changes to stop what would be irreversible climate changes. A climate change countdown clock is now part of the content running on a big LED display atop …
Rebooted DSE Lines Up Data Viz Artist Refik Anadol As Keynote Speaker October 25, 2021 by Super User In a move I would describe as cheeky, the team pulling together the DSE reboot in March has announced its keynote speaker – just as InfoComm starts its exhibits and conferences this week in Orlando. It’s a great “get” for Questex – Refik Anadol, the most known and arguably successful creator in the emerging discipline …
Kramer, Zignage Partner On Data-Triggered Emergency Alerts For Education, Workplace AV Control Systems October 21, 2021 by Super User Pro AV gear supplier Kramer Electronics has done a partnership with the digital signage management software firm Zignage that enables a range of emergency notifications to be integrated with Kramer’s VIA and Control platforms for the education and workplace markets. This solution, says PR, will help manage hybrid campuses and workplaces and to escalate alerts …
