LG Starts Touting Direct View LED As Cinema Screens June 16, 2020 by Dave Haynes LG has joined Korean rival Samsung in actively marketing a direct view LED solution for cinema operators, as an alternative to projection systems. The big pitch behind the new 3.3mm pitch LED product is image quality – like deep blacks and color uniformity – and the ability for cinema operators to win back space and …
Westfield Stratford City In London Upgrades Giant “Four Dials” LED Display On Facade June 12, 2020 by Dave Haynes The big Westfield Stratford City shopping mall on the east side of London, around where the 2012 Olympics were staged, has been around long enough now that it is refreshing some of its digital. This is a 10mm Daktronics display applied as a gentle curve on a facade of the mall. It replaces an earlier …
SID Converts Its 2020 Display Week To A Virtual Event June 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes The display industry nerd-fest known as SID/Display Week has been converted to a virtual event, scheduled for August 3-7. Formally known as the 57th International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition, the event put on by the Society for Information Display “will bring together the brightest minds in the display industry to provide insight into the latest …
Danish Football Club Uses LED Boards, Zoom To Bring Fans To Empty Grounds On Game Day June 1, 2020 by Dave Haynes A Danish pro football club has started using direct view LED displays mounted in the stands of its home grounds to allow hardcore fans to be virtually attend matches. AGF Aarhus put in rental LED boards near ground level and used the web conferencing platform Zoom to show the tiled screens of fans – live …
South Beach Condo Complex Adds 29-Foot LED Wall … To Parking Garage Lobby May 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a 29 foot wide by 7 foot high direct view LED video wall in the waiting area of a parking garage of a luxury condo complex in the South Beach section of Miami Beach. Yeah, the area where you wait for an Uber, Lyft or taxi. The video wall is one component of …
Giant 736 Foot-Wide LED Board Lights Up In LA, Focused On Freeway Traffic May 20, 2020 by Dave Haynes Strangely, whenever I use the term big ass in relation to LED billboards I see all kinds of unrelated search traffic in my Google Analytics. So in the spirit of upping my traffic numbers, this is a big, big ass billboard in LA – 55 feet high and 736 feet wide – wrapping around the …
Dutch Mall Uses Motion-Sensing Software And Real Time AR On LEd Wall, To Drive Social Distancing Guidelines May 20, 2020 by Dave Haynes The new, Westfield-owned Mall of the Netherlands – which is positioned to be in easy reach of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and The Hague – is using a big direct view LED, camera sensors and some relatively simple AR to encourage social distancing among shoppers. The software scans and senses passing shoppers along a mall concourse, …
This Fantastic Sloshing Virtual Wave Looms Over A Seoul Shopping District May 12, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is just flat fantastic creative work by the Seoul digital shop d’strict. It’s a three-dimensional illusion of a wave washing around inside a big glass cube looking over a heavily trafficked section of Seoul. It is showing on a 90 meter wide by 20 meter tall direct view LED board. It’s just art, and …
Gobright Adds Purple Light To Indicate Shared Workstations Need Cleaning May 12, 2020 by Dave Haynes As digital signage and workplace technology companies pivot to develop solutions for the challenges brought on by a global health crisis, they’re working with things like thermal scanners and dispensers that were rarely part of normal, or any, projects. The Dutch firm Gobright, which focuses on workplace tech, has debuted an interesting new solution that …
Tech Firm Okta Adds Big, “Bold” LED Wall To SF Bay HQ Lobby April 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a very nice, very big direct view LED wall at the downtown San Francisco headquarters of the secure cloud company Okta, Inc. The building is located on the south end of the city’s financial district, halfway between the bay and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and is across the street …
