Giant 62-Foot Tall W Made From LED Greets Visitors To WWE’s New HQ October 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes The ability to create shapes that aren’t just flat rectangles has always been a big selling advantage of LED displays, and that advantage really gets pushed here with a truly giant 62-foot high letter W made from custom LED cabinets in the new Stamford, CT headquarters of World Wrestling Entertainment. The fully custom display is …
Clearing Up Confusion Around What Is Truly MicroLED October 1, 2024 by Ross Noonan Guest Post: Ross Noonan, LED Studio Let’s clear up some of the confusion, once and for all, around microLED. The true definition of microLED can vary depending on who you ask, leading to industry confusion and the false claims. Let’s clarify this debate with some clear facts. MicroLED, miniLED, and standard LED are defined by …
KC’s New Airport Terminal Latest To Adopt LED Displays To Guide Passenger Journeys September 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes It’s pretty clear that big video walls for meat and potatoes passenger messaging are becoming part of the standard build for new or renovated airport terminals, with the new 39-gate Kansas City International Airport terminal the latest example. A $1.5 billion project includes screens for guiding passengers at curbside drop-off and then inside at check-in …
Ambitious New Pop-Up Store On London’s Oxford Street Borrows On Nearby Outernet London’s Visual Scale September 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes Something that might be described as a pop-up retail version of the immersive, LED-driven Outernet London attraction is opening soon just a couple of blocks away, on the UK capital’s busiest high street. Future Stores will fill the Oxford Street-facing ground floor of a commercial block, using big entryways and curtain wall glass to give …
LED Curtain Creates Ambient Three-Dimensional Low-Rez Visuals In Paris Concert Hall Lobby September 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes A three-dimensional display has to have some dimension and volume to be more than marketing 3D – though lots of 2D products trick the eye with transparency and clever creative. Here’s a very low-rez 3D display related to the beauty products brand CLARINS, a 360° art installation in the lobby of the Salle Pleyel concert …
Watch: A Giant Butterfly With LED Wings September 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is not what I’d call digital signage, bur it is using LED to offer up something that is the definition of experiential – a giant butterfly with some 39,000 LEDs that flaps its wings as people below use an oversized porch swing. The 26 x 14 foot butterfly is 15 feet above the ground. …
Storied Kentucky College Basketball Program Using That LED In Glass Dynamic Surface For 2024-25 Season Launch September 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes In what is likely a preview of what may grow increasingly common among deeper-pocketed, alumni-supported programs, the storied University of Kentucky basketball program will introduce its 2024-25 teams next month on one of those multimedia LED sports floors out of Germany. An ASB GlassFloor – the same tech used for the NBA All-Star Skills night …
Vancouver Airport Upgrades Include New Digital Gateway At Screening Checkpoint September 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes Canada is so freaking big it is easier and faster, based on my living way out on the east coast, to get to Europe than it is to Vancouver, BC, which is way on the west coast. So … I have not been through Vancouver’s airport in ages, and certainly haven’t seen in person some …
LG Now Marketing The Kinetic LED Wall Product It Used As Booth Eye Candy At Big Trade Shows This Year September 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes The previous post on here goes into Panasonic’s water vapor projection system, and in looking to make a point about trade show eye candy that never gets commercialized, I was going to use LG’s stands at ISE and InfoComm as Exhibit A – because of the Korean electronics giant fronting its mega-stands with a shape-shifting …
Turns Out Panasonic’s Profoundly Underwhelming Mist Projection System Is Also Profoundly Impractical For Pro AV Uses September 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes One of the things I wanted to see when walking the floor at InfoComm back in June was an eye candy thing that Panasonic was touting at its stand – a super-fine water spray system that created a mist that had enough volume to it to show projected visuals. I walked in to the stand, …
