Preview: Pix From Launch Event For Future Stores In London October 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes That very ambitious, digitally-driven pop-up store on Oxford Street in London had a preview party the other night, ahead of its formal opening next week. Future Stores is a space that brands can lease for short-terms – if for example a consumer device company with, I dunno, AR eyeglasses, wanted to make a big splash …
Big 3 By 5 Meter Kinetic LED Tower Now Shape-Shifting At LG-Backed Korean Cultural Space October 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s a real world example of that kinetic LED tower that LG has shown this year at ISE and then InfoComm, an installation at a new cultural space in the Korean port city of Incheon. It is a bit of an inside job, so to speak, in that the venue – called Museum L – …
Sphere’s Owners Partner With Abu Dhabi Government To Put A Vegas-Scale Version In That Emirate October 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Most observers will have long ago concluded that if another version of the Las Vegas Sphere was going to be built, it would likely be in the Gulf region – where big-money Wow Factors projects are regularly announced and often built. Sphere Entertainment, the live entertainment company that owns Sphere, has announced intentions to bring …
Downtown Dallas Sports Bar Installs Giant LED Halo Over Drinks Area October 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is a sports bar in Dallas that now how has a center-hug halo LED display over one of the drinks stations and visible to presumably everyone in the place. The Hero Bar at 3090 Nowitzki Way is next to the American Airlines Center, home arena to both the NHL’s Dallas Stars and NBA’s Dallas …
Telecom’s Tech Arm Makes Immersive LED Cube A Main Feature Of New Flagship Space In Madrid October 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes Telefónica Tech, the technology arm of the telecom giant Telefónica, has added an LED-driven immersive cube experience to its new flagship venue in Madrid, the Espacio Movistar. The cube is a five-sided installation that enables 360-degree immersive experiences using visual effects and surround sound. Visitors enter through a big stainless steel portal. The set-up uses …
Fans Could See Themselves As Adele On Giant LED Screen During Singer’s Munich Concert Residency October 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes Singer Adele’s month-long run at a pop-up concert venue in Munich this summer attracted a lot of attention for the sheer scale of the very wide LED backdrop, but the show also had a clever social media/AR thing happening that allowed fans to have their faces swapping out the star performer’s face. They did that …
LED Displays Now A $9B Global Market; Biggest Sales Growth Now In Americas: Futuresource October 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes The research firm Futuresource Consulting has pushed out a new fee-based report about the global LED display market, suggesting it expanded by more than 6% in 2023 and hit sales of $9.0 billion. In a summary of the report, Futuresource says the APAC region (including China), is the most active market, representing almost two-thirds of …
The Biggest Indoor DOOH Billboard In Europe Derailed At London Station, Just A Year After Lighting Up October 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes Europe’s largest indoor digital billboard has been switched off less than a year after being installed, but not for technical or energy conservation reasons. The government-owned company that manages the UK’s train network and stations has ordered the big ad display shut off because of larger problems, like overcrowding, at London’s Euston Station. Network Rail …
Near-Transparent LED Panels Create Faux Water Feature At Guilin, China Exhibition Hall October 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes The flowery descriptions and misuse of holographic and invisible are a bit much, but this installation using super-thin mesh-like display panels made by the Chinese company Muxwave is nonetheless interesting. There was a point when big video walls started replacing things like high-maintenance water features in the lobbies of commercial buildings, and now we have …
Super-Clever LED Fins Make Store’s Media Facade On Narrow High Street Visible To People Approaching On Foot October 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is a fantastically well-conceived, engineered and executed digital media facade on the front of a perfume company’s flagship store and HQ in Andorra. A set of vertical LED fins enable views from people walking toward the building, even though the pedestrian-only high street is very narrow. Barcelona-based creative technology studio Instronic did the job …
