How Gavin Smith’s Backyard Tinkering Led To The World’s Most Advanced 3D Volumetric Display March 15, 2023 by Super User When I was at the big ISE pro AV trade show a few weeks ago, I yet again saw several products that were billed as holograms, even though they didn’t even loosely fit the technical definition. I am always paying attention to news and social media posts that use that terminology, and once in a …
Brandon Harp On Why Electrosonic Stays Focused On Immersive And Experiential Integration Work March 8, 2023 by Super User When I see an ambitious new visual display project lit up at a new or reno’d airport, office tower or attraction, I just about assume that if it’s in the US, the company that put it in is probably Electrosonic. The company is, technically, an AV systems integrator, and there are lots of them out …
Mark Ossel Explains The Whys And Hows Of The Global Signage Alliance, And Its Ties To Samsung March 1, 2023 by Super User When I was doing my initial recon walk through the many halls of ISE a few weeks back, I went by a stand that was highlighting something called the Global Signage Alliance, which was unfamiliar to me and made me curious. The stand’s occupants weren’t there, and I was on the go, so I never …
John Hoyle On How Sook Uses Digital Signage To Power Pop-Up Retail Spaces February 21, 2023 by Super User If an entrepreneur or an established brand wants to open a temporary pop-up store on a busy retail street, there’s a lot of planning, work and cost involved in making that actually happen. So what if there was a retail space in a high profile location that could be rented for as short a time …
The Thinking Behind The 230 Million Pixels Of Display At Outernet London, With Ben Maher February 15, 2023 by Super User I spent a few days in London, UK ahead of Integrated Systems Europe – in part to break up the trip and flights, but much more so to meet with several companies and see some projects that I’d only been able to see in photos and videos. The one I particularly wanted to see was …
LED Display Analyst Ted Romanowitz Of Futuresource On What To Expect And See At ISE 2023 January 30, 2023 by Super User Ted Romanowitz has been around the commercial display and tech sectors for a whole bunch of years, and for the last two or so, has been an industry analyst for the research firm Futuresource Consulting. Futuresource is in the UK, but Ted works out of the Portland, Oregon area – spending his time looking at …
Reach Media Network Details Its Evolution From DOOH To End-To-End Digital Signage Provider January 24, 2023 by Super User Reach Media Network has been around the digital signage ecosystem since 2005, and like many of the companies in this sector, its focus and strategy has evolved a lot based on customer needs and marketplace conditions. The Minneapolis-area company got its start as a place-based media network, putting screens in venues on its own dollar, …
Jannatul Choudhury Relates How He Makes Freemium Work For His PosterBooking Digital Signage Platform January 10, 2023 by Super User Jannatul Choudhury found his way into the digital signage software business out of frustration – writing his own cloud-based platform because the one he was under contract to use and maintain gave him endless headaches. The Manchester, UK software developer wrote the code and is now growing out the functionality and installed footprint of what …
No Podcast This Week Or Next December 21, 2022 by Super User No new podcasts this week or next, but a bunch are in the works for the new year. There are also some 300 past episodes going back six or so years, so if you are desperate to hear my voice – and evidently need counselling – there should be all kinds of listening options through …
Why easescreen Has Set Sights On N. America To Grow Digital Signage CMS Business December 14, 2022 by Super User The roots of Austria’s easescreen are as a AV systems integrator, but when the company looked around in the late 1990s for software to use for jobs that weren’t yet being called digital signage, there weren’t many options. So easescreen wrote its own software, and the company is now, by far, a software company first …
