30-Meter LED Billboard Lights Up INSIDE A Munich Rail Hub November 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s more evidence of the mainstreaming of LED displays – in this case a scenario that has been using LED for a few years, but not often at this scale. This is a highway billboard-sized narrow pitch LED display at a main access point into the mass transport services below or near the Karlplatz, a …
LianTronics Boosts North American LED Sales And Solutions Via New Deal With 3Dot Technologies November 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes LianTronics is by volume on one of the larger direct view LED manufacturers on the planet, but the Chinese is not all that well-known in North America – a situation it hopes to change via a new distribution agreement with a Toronto-area company focused on video wall solutions. 3Dot Technologies, based in my old home …
New Suburban Toronto Development’s Using Big Low-Rez LED Screen As Luminous Art Wall November 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes A development called SmartVMC on the outer edges of Toronto has put in a big low-rez LED video wall to run public art for the many people who spill out of regional buses and the north end of a subway line. The outdoor display is billed as Canada’s largest low rez digital display – “a …
Nike Shanghai Flagship Uses Four-Storey LED Tower And LED Floors For Lebron Skills Challenge October 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting blend of semi-transparent LED mesh video walls, LED floor tiles, sensors and real-time visualized data used to create an interactive basketball experience in a Nike flagship in Shanghai. Nike worked with basketball god Lebron James to develop a skills challenge set that aspiring hoopers could inside the store, with sensors lighting …
Poland’s Screen Network Raising Climate Change Awareness Using Warsaw LED Countdown Clock October 28, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Polish OOH media firm Screen Network has started supporting an educational campaign that bluntly reminds people how time is running out to make the industrial and behavioral changes to stop what would be irreversible climate changes. A climate change countdown clock is now part of the content running on a big LED display atop …
Here’s A Very Clever Use Of Those LED Light Wand Thingies, For Generative Art October 27, 2021 by Dave Haynes I have hugely mixed feelings about those madly spinning LED light wand thingies that always seem to attract attention at trade shows. I think they’re gimmicks with short-term stopping power. I worry about any electronics in busy spaces that has moving parts, and these things spin like fans. And I dislike how they’re called holograms, …
Functionality Beats Wow Factor, For A Change, In Use Of Big Sony Premium LED Wall October 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s a case of a premium fine pitch video wall going into a business for functional reasons, as opposed to many of the Wow Factor jobs that are mainly intended to impress viewers in places like corporate lobbies. It’s a curved Sony Crystal LED wall being used by an aerospace contractor to review drawings and …
Three Giant LED Heads Drive “The Conversation” On Boston-Area Building October 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes This an interesting new community art project in the Somerville area of metro Boston that uses an array of LED light sticks to create three giant heads on the 90-degree corner of a building there. The six-storey tall, head-shaped LED art spectacular is called The Conversation and it formally went live this weekend at a …
New Midtown NYC Skyscraper’s Top Floors Have Much More Than Just A Great View; Features Immersive, Experiential Observatory October 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes A new tourist ands event destination opened way up high in New York on Thursday – what’s described as the world’s most immersive observatory experience. The ribbon was cut to open SUMMIT One Vanderbilt, a multi-level space put together 1,063 feet above Madison Avenue in midtown Manhattan. The features include immersive art experiences supported, in …
More Evidence LED Video Walls Are Mainstreamed: A Fish Counter At A Supermarket Has Vast Video Wall October 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes Via Invidis It really was just a few years ago when fine pitch indoor LED walls started being marketed by manufacturers, with buyers expressing a lot of excitement … until they learned how much walls like that would cost. Fast-forward to now – in a hyper-competitive marketplace with an almost countless number of manufacturers around …
