Collecting Luggage At Melbourne’s T2 Puts Travelers In Front Of 85M LED Ribbon April 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is the baggage carousel area at the Terminal 2 of Melbourne Airport in Australia – an 85 meter wraparound LED ribbon that greets arriving travelers with digital artwork. The set-up, which went in about three years ago (just learning about it now, though), uses SiliconCore’s Daffodil 2.5mm pitch LED panels, with a total display …
107-Foot High LED Tower Fills Atrium In Guangzhou Shopping Mall March 31, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a 107 foot tall, 40 foot wide direct view LED display suspended in the atrium of an upscale urban shopping mall in Guangzhou, China. The 4,328 square foot display featuring the giant, pouty Versace model covers up the elevator tower, and includes wraparound corners. The DV LED cabinets are from Yaham. No details …
Here’s A Modest But Good Example Of How DV LED Offers Up Design, Install Flexibility March 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes One of the key arguments made for using direct view LED is its modularity – the ability to build a video wall that meets shapes that aren’t just 16:9 rectangles. Here’s a modest little DV LED video display done by integrator AVI SPL for Advent Health, that shows what can be done with LED, that …
Real Estate Developer Uses Anamorphic Illusions On Indoor Corporate LED Video Wall March 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes New anamorphic 3D visuals on big LED boards located in public plazas in Asia seem to be popping up more and more on feeds like Linkedin. Like this one with a Star Trek craft flying out of a building corner. Here’s a very different take – a corporate office in Vancouver, BC that is using …
Irish Firm Planning Giant LED-Driven Selfie Statues In 21 Cities Around Globe March 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes Via Invidis An Irish company, based in Dublin, is pitching to put 21 giant LED-driven statues in 21 cities around the world, by the end of 2021. The statues have addressable LED units and support some basic movement, making it possible for the things to feature famous people, but also capture, map and then display …
Those Spinning LED Wand Thingies Find An Application – Public Art March 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes The madly spinning LED wands that started showing up at AV trade shows maybe four years ago have always been good at attracting crowds at booths, but I’ve not seen or read much that suggests broad adoption in the real world. I think the things are eye candy that stops being visually interesting pretty quickly, …
See The Difference Between Coated And “Naked” DV LED Modules March 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes I’ve written a few times about the hardened, engineered coatings that some direct view LED manufacturers are using on their modules to better protect against damage. It’s been a little hard to explain and even harder to show in trade show photos I’ve grabbed, but this close-up comparison image does a good job. This is …
Huge LED Mesh Screen At Vegas NFL Venue Coming Down, Months After Initial Install March 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to LV resident Tom McGowan The huge transparent LED mesh display that lines one side of the new NFL stadium in Las Vegas is coming down … temporarily. The 27,600 sq. ft. display on the facade of Allegiant Stadium is being temporarily removed so work can be done to tweak the mounting structure. …
Using Low-Rez LEDs And Fabric To Create Interesting Ambient Visual Experiences March 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes Most of the marketing and much of the design execution for LED has been focused, rightly, on increasingly fine pixel pitch displays and tight resolutions, but there’s an interested diversion some designers are taking with addressable LED lights. Banks and commercial property developers may regard a big DV LED video wall as a rounding error …
Giant Fine Pitch LED Video Walls Finding New Use Case As Virtual Movie Sets March 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes It has really been just three or four years since direct view LED started being demo’d and marketed as a screen alternative to projection for cinemas, and now we’re starting to see tangible examples of LED being used to make blockbuster movies and streaming series. Fine pitch LED has matured to a point that production …
