How About LED Spheres As Creepy, Probing Eyeballs? July 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes LED displays shaped into spheres is not a new thing, but the Chinese LED manufacturer Ocolour Technologies has a Linkedin post on a distinct and, some might suggest, seriously creepy small format version – LED as giant, shifting eyeballs. I don’t know what the use-case would be, but you could imagine this sort of thing …
That Giant Wraparound LED Billboard In LA Already Running 3D Illusion Creative July 6, 2022 by Dave Haynes When that big wrap-around LED display in downtown LA’s entertainment district went live about three weeks ago, I wondered how long it would take for a forced perspective/3D illusion piece of creative to get developed and booked on the screen. Not long at all, it seems. This is a nice piece done to promote the …
LED On Film Getting Tighter And Brighter July 5, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to industry vet Alan Brawn, who noted this transparent LED tech on Linkedin … As he said in sharing this, transparent LED on glass is getting steadily tighter and generally better. A Chinese firm, Shenzhen MVX Device, has started marketing Muxwave transparent LED displays that can have pixel pitches as tight as 4mm …
Probably The Best 3D Illusion Yet Done For Big LED Boards … July 5, 2022 by Dave Haynes With the usual qualifier that this sort of thing looks best at a very specific viewing angle, this is nonetheless one of the best three-dimensional illusion pieces I’ve seen to date – a promotion for the opening in May of Dior Seongsu, the fashion brand’s first concept store in Korea. It looks like glass cabinets …
Here Are Two More Jobs Showing How LED Video Walls Are Now Mainstream Tech June 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes I have been writing for the last couple of years about how direct view LED is now a mainstream technology that is no longer just going into high-profile, big-budget projects, and a couple of new installations in this morning’s inbox really drive that home. A multimedia room gateway in a local library, and a giant …
Miami Developer Markets To-Be-Built Penthouse’s View With 67 Feet Of Virtual Windows June 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to Rene Lopez of Vanguard LED, who in reading about that LED gateway for a Miami residential tower made me aware of what another developer did to market a penthouse residence at the Miami Waldorf Astoria. Back in March 2021, a mock-up penthouse suite (with a mind-wobbling price tag of just $74 million) …
Here Are Details And Video Of That Stunning Lenticular LED Wall At Rebuilt Laguardia Airport June 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes If you get past the sheer wonder of New York’s LaGuardia Airport going from quite awful to quite nice, one of the true highlights of Delta’s brand new Terminal C is a grand-scale fine pitch LED mural that welcomes passengers into the departure hall. It was designed to borrow on the concept and delivery of …
Miami High-Rise Developer Makes Big Visual Statement With LED Gateway To Sales Center June 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes I have seen big LED walls in commercial and residential real estate presentation centers, but this is the first time (I think) I’ve seen a video wall used as the outside entryway for a property developer’s sales center. It is for developer Property Markets Group (PMG) – some 500 square feet of outdoor-rated LED, using …
Enough With The Naked Eye 3D LED Stuff, Please! June 23, 2022 by Dave Haynes I have had polite arguments with sales people from a few Chinese LED manufacturers, through Linkedin comments, about their assertions that there is something technically special about their display hardware that enables outdoor screens to deliver Naked Eye 3D viewing experiences. They don’t. It’s all in the creative, and in many cases contingent on viewing …
New Mesh LED On UK Campus Cycles Between Public Art And Messaging June 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting use of low-rez mesh LED on the corner of a structure – in this case a new building in a busy part of the campus of the University of Kentucky, In Lexington, KY. The 55×24 foot video wall – called the Cornerstone – was schemed in from the design stages and …
