Sao Paulo Office Block Lit Up By LED Art Project July 11, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil with a low-rez LED light facade, with content put together by the Istanbul, Turkey HQ’d creative shop Ouchhh. I like what they did, but the explanation/description is one of those art gallery “Ummm-OK-yeah-yeah-I-see” narratives that is a little too out there for my bottom-feeder brain. And I quote …
The Tech Behind Those Furiously-Spinning LED Holograph-ish Hypervsn Walls July 4, 2018 by Dave Haynes I’ve been to a few trade shows now where the fast-spinning LED light sticks – marketed as Hypervsn – attract big crowds and have a lot of people whipping out their phone cameras. The technology definitely creates buzz, so I wanted to know more about the technology and the company behind it. It uses the …
LED Pixel Pitch Is About Viewing Distance, AND Brightness June 14, 2018 by Dave Haynes I thought this was an interesting way for a display company to show what pixel pitch differences mean, not only in the tightness of the image when seen from a distance (I was maybe 12-15 feet back) but also the brightness you get when you have more LEDs packed into a module. You can see …
Generative Visuals Derived From Famous Artworks Fills Huge LED Canvas At Dolby’s HQ June 13, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a set of digital motion graphics art pieces running at the Dolby Gallery in San Francisco, on a 62-foot wide street-level LED in the lobby. Developed by Chicago experiential design agency Leviathan, Metamorphosis is described as an audiovisual odyssey that extracts brilliant color data from masterpieces of the past century to create an …
DC-area Office Tower Uses LED To Visually Energize Lobby June 12, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is the lobby of the 31-story CEB Tower in Arlington, Virginia, in the immediate orbit of Washington, DC. The building’s centerpiece visual is a 19 feet high by 38 feet wide 4mm pitch LED wall that fronts and wraps around the end of the facade of the elevator shaft. It uses Sansi’s LED technology and content …
Right-Angle Fine Pitch LED Wall Centerpiece Of Arab National Bank Branch In Riyadh June 12, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a major branch of Arab National Bank in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with the digital components just completed and switched on by Dubai-based digital signage solutions firm 2point0 Concepts. The branch on Tahlia Street, which is Riyadh’s main shopping strip, has a big mix of direct view LED and interactive LCD screens. The main feature …
InfoComm 2018 Day One Impressions June 7, 2018 by Dave Haynes LAS VEGAS – It’s very hot. The Las Vegas Convention Center has renovated the food services area in the north and central hall areas so it looks more polished and the options don’t all lead to desperation eating. But there’s still nowhere enough seating. AVIXA has a DJ playing dance music in the main entry …
LG To Show Its Full Color Transparent LED Film This Week At Infocomm June 4, 2018 by Dave Haynes North American pros will get a first look this week at Infocomm at the transparent color LED film that LG first showed a few months ago at ISE in Amsterdam. The film is touted as a way to turn any window or glass surface into a customizable digital canvas. If you were at Infocomm a year …
Shenzhen Ops Center Gets 121-Foot Wide Fine Pitch Monitoring Wall June 1, 2018 by Dave Haynes It hasn’t really happened in North America or, likely, EMEA, but in China, fine pitch LED is increasingly supplanting projection tiles, edge-blended projection and narrow bezels LCDs as the tech of choice for big control room environments. If the room is big enough and operators are set back enough, the clarity is there for …
Chicago Skyscraper’s Observatory Plans Appear To Bake In Vast LED Display Walls June 1, 2018 by Dave Haynes I don’t really think of 16:9 as a lead identification tool for vendors, but here’s a pretty damn warm lead for integrators and direct view LED manufacturers: The AON Center is one of Chicago’s best-known office towers, with a position near Lake Michigan and overlooking the city’s vast Millennium Park, which attracts about 13 million …
