Harvard Biz School Adds Massive 62-Foot Fine-Pitch LED Screen To Main Auditorium November 8, 2019 by Super User The adoption rate for direct view LED seems to to be steadily increasing, at the same time as the variety of potential applications keep broadening. I’d not really considered giant fine-pitch LED displays as workable options for lecture hall backdrops, but when you’re the Harvard Business School and have many very rich graduates, all things …
Live Data Sculpture On Warsaw Mall Facade Reacts To Nearby Pedestrians, Traffic November 7, 2019 by Super User This is a live data sculpture on a large street-facing LED display on a mall in Warsaw, Poland. Called Symulakra, the visualized content is directly influenced by things like car traffic on the nearby street and data from cell phones of people gathered around the screen, such as the general intensity of mobile internet usage, …
Sports Teams Adopting LED Video Walls As Changeable Media Room Backdrops November 5, 2019 by Super User Technology companies are always looking for new markets or at least new use cases, and LED manufacturers have found one few would have predicted – media rooms for sports teams. They’re using fine pitch direct view LED displays as the backdrops for pre and post-game interviews with the athletes and coaches of college and professional …
New Cruise Ship Features 305 Foot LED Barrel Ceiling November 4, 2019 by Super User Moving to a coastal city that’s a tourist magnet means I now see giant cruise ships all summer and fall when we get down to the harbor. Some days, there are as many as five ships docked in Halifax. I am steadily amazed at how insanely big the newest ships are, and one that’s launching …
30,000 Feet Of Programmable LEDs Drive New Guitar Hotel’s Media Facade November 1, 2019 by Super User This is the LED lighting show on the newly opened Guitar Hotel at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino just outside of Miami. The 34-story destination resort has nearly 30,000 linear feet of programmable LEDs that wrap the building and conform to the unique contoured exterior. The vertical guitar strings on the building extend …
A Quick Look At New Digital Signage In Downtown San Francisco October 29, 2019 by Super User I was in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago to see all the Samsung/PrismView LED and smart displays at the new Chase Center, but I also had a couple of free hours to have a quick look around. I’ve seen the LED displays in the lobbies of the cluster of Salesforce office towers downtown, …
Canada’s CBC Fills Election Night Set With Direct-view LED October 29, 2019 by Super User Canada had its federal election last week – a five week or so sprint of an election instead of the ones south of us, in the US, which seemingly never really end. One of the national broadcasters – the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – had a one-night elections set that heavily used direct view LED to …
Houston Office Block Enlivens Lobby With 32′ by 18′ LED Wall October 28, 2019 by Super User Here’s another example of what I assume will continue to be a trend in the commercial property business to enliven the lobbies of their big buildings with large format LED displays. In this case, it is 1100 Louisiana, an office block owned by the international real estate firm Hines. Ground-floor renovations to the building included …
Another Shape-Shifting LED Screen Surfaces, This Time In Malaysia October 28, 2019 by Super User You’d think when a top five global brand has a dismal failure with its splashy, expensive and very high profile robotic LED display, that would get around to the potential user base and put the brakes on other deep-pocketed companies trying the same thing. Apparently not … This is somewhere in Malaysia – probably Kuala …
NBA’s Warriors Light Up LED-laden New Home Court Building In San Francisco October 21, 2019 by Super User Sports and entertainment venues have long been an opportune market for digital signage vendors because of the need for owner/operators to both communicate a lot of changing information, and drive the visual excitement of the event experience. They’re also opportune because venue operators are pretty steadily looking to up their technology game, particularly with newly …
