InfoComm Day One Impressions: LED Everywhere, WTF Is MLED, And TCL Is Coming June 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes Sitting back in my hotel room quite impressed with myself for doing the wise thing, for a change, by getting the hell out of a cocktail party that had a live band, a very open bar and some old friends who were bent on having as much fun as possible at InfoComm in Orlando. Back …
Aboriginal Art Fills Digital Sky Inside Brisbane Office Tower Lobby June 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is a gorgeous digital art piece running on part of the street-level lobby ceiling in a Brisbane, Australian commercial building. The property developer Mirvac commissioned First Nations artist Rachael Sarra to work alongside the creative technology and design agency VANDAL to transform the building – Heritage Lanes – with a piece called Guidance from …
Sneak Preview: Creative For That Giant LED Wall At Next Week’s InfoComm Mixer June 7, 2023 by Dave Haynes The site for next week’s Sixteen:Nine InfoComm Digital Signage Mixer in Orlando is a working virtual production studio that can also be booked as an event space – so attendees will be sipping cocktails and chatting up industry friends while surrounded by a vast, curved LED video wall. There will be conventional event branding and …
Nanolumens: InfoComm Digital Signage Mixer Sponsor Profile June 7, 2023 by Dave Haynes InfoComm is next week in Orlando, and one of the key events for the digital signage side of North American pro AV is a networking mixer set for June 13th. Sixteen:Nine is doing this event with the trade association AVIXA, which owns and runs InfoComm and is, frankly, doing most of the heavy lifting on …
New Peerless-AV System Touted As Removing Time, Hassles Of Mounting LED On Anything-But-Flat Walls June 7, 2023 by Dave Haynes Av solutions firm Peerless-AV’s shiniest new object at InfoComm 2023 next week will be its new and now-shipping universal LED video wall mounting system the company says takes much of the time and pain out of getting walls to look right on uneven vertical surfaces. Called the SEAMLESS Kitted Series Universal dvLED Mounting System (DS-LEDUNV), …
Global LED Video Display Sales Up 12.8% In Q1; Absen #1 Manufacturer, But Samsung, LG Catching Up June 7, 2023 by Dave Haynes LED video display shipments recovered globally by 12.8% YoY in the first quarter of 2023, according to a summary from the research firm Omdia. The recovery was seen in most regions, except for Japan and Western Europe. Researcher Tay Taehoon Kim posted on Linkedin some of the highlights of a paywalled report – LED Video …
Orlando Sports Bar Has 60 Feet Of Fine Pitch LED Video Wall June 6, 2023 by Dave Haynes It’s insanely hot and humid in Orlando, so I have an excellent excuse for needing to visit bars there next week to rehydrate. One I will now have to visit is the Centric sports bar in the Hilton Orlando, which is right near the Orange County Convention Center – the site of InfoComm 2023. That’s …
Suspended LED Light Strings Create Cubic 3D Displays June 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes A Hong Kong-based company has adapted conventional LED technology to create a hardware and software system that produces large-format volumetric displays that genuinely have three dimensions – albeit at very low resolutions. LedPulse’s core offer is a product based around a series of suspended LED light strings that can be as tall as five meters, …
Wayfinding LED Halos Wrap Columns At Montreal’s Main Airport June 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes Here’s a different take on wrapping support columns inside a building with LED – oval halos on a pair of concrete columns at Montreal’s main airport. The LED displays from Nanolumens are up there to locate the security screening area for flights to the US. I’ve seen lots of LED displays wrapping around square and …
Content Intent: Balancing Art And Information On Digital Signage Screens May 29, 2023 by Jake Berg Guest Post: Jake Berg, Render Impact Digital signage has come a long way from its early days as a simple way to display information. While information and advertising messages were the main use cases in the past, today’s digital displays are all about experiences and WOW-factor content. Whether it’s a museum exhibit, a trade show booth, …
