French Theme Park Creates 360-Degree LED Theater For Tornado-Chaser Experience October 5, 2022 by Dave Haynes Via AV Interactive … Tornadoes are mainly associated with the US Midwest, but they also happen in other areas and countries – including France. There’s enough of an interest in twisters, and the weather violence that they generate, that a theme park in France has invested more than 21 million EU to create a new …
LED Display Marketplace Forecast To Grow At 21% CAGR Through 2026: Futuresource October 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes The total LED marketplace is expected to reach sales of some $19.5 billion by 2026, growing at a compound rate of 21%, suggests UK-based research firm Futuresource in its 2022 Global LED Display Market Report. This is a category in its ascendancy, says the firm in a brief on the fee-based report, with new projections indicating a …
NYC’s Historic Tin Building Gets What’s Described As Biggest US Install Of LED-Embedded Glass October 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes What is described as the largest US Installation of architectural-grade LED-embedded media glass has been switched on at the newly renovated Tin Building in NYC’s South Street Seaport District. The historic building uses some 1,140 square feet of 20mm transparent LED glass on a divider between the marketplace area and the escalator – allowing patrons …
Fashion Icons Use LED Column As Centerpiece At Famed Paris Department Store September 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes Just about every example of an LED based on a vertical column has been for DOOH advertising in places like airports and rail stations, but that form factor is used as a key feature in a specialty leasing set-up that pairs fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld with supermodel Cara Delevingne at a famed Paris department store. …
Christie Adds Pair Of Super Fine-Pitch LEDs To MicroTiles LED Line September 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes Christie is getting deeper into fine pitch LED, launching a pair of super-tight, flip chip-based displays to its MicroTiles LED product line. There are now 0.75mm and 1.0mm models in the MicroTiles line-up, supplementing the existing line-up of 1.25 and 1.5mm pixel pitches. The units were previewed this year at ISE and InfoComm. The two …
Energy Debate Over Switching Off Digital Ad Displays Expands To Ireland September 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes The debate and discussion about digital ad displays being turned off to save energy has spread from mainland Europe to Ireland. Sinn Féin Senator Lynn Boylan has called for the Irish government to restrict the operating hours of LED billboards to reduce energy demand during peak hours. “The Government should follow the example of Germany …
Small Venue In San Antonio Makes Big Investment In LED For Events Experience September 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes We’ve grown accustomed to new and upgraded venues for pro sports teams to include a lot of digital displays in the technology and game-day experience mix, but here’s a smaller and very different kind of new-build facility also filled inside and out with LED displays. The new Tech Port Center + Arena is a …
Vast Shanghai Stadium Builds Motion LED Into Seating Bowl Canopy September 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes Giant LED displays at new or upgraded sports and entertainment stadiums have grown increasingly column, with the most noteworthy examples to date the halos suspended over the playing surfaces in Atlanta and at LA’s SoFi Stadium. But I haven’t seen a stadium done with LED the way it’s been applied at the renovated 80,000-set Shanghai …
This Clever Creative Makes The Corner Of A Dallas Office Block Come Alive September 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes One of the great visual tricks that LED is particularly useful for is picking up the characteristics and look of the immediate surroundings, and then creating surprises by transforming into something entirely different. The first time I saw this was inside, years ago, at the Comcast head office tower lobby in Philadelphia. The whole back …
Spanish Apparel Retailer Lefties Opens Digital-Filled Store Of Future In Barcelona September 12, 2022 by Dave Haynes Details are hard to find, but this is the newly-opened “store of the future” from an apparel brand called Lefties – at a mall in Barcelona. Lefties os part of the giant Inditex retail group and I think it is positioned as an outlet store for fast fashion giant Zara. The store has one hell …
