Eastidea Marketing 2nd-Gen Of Integrated Projection Systems For Elevator Media November 8, 2023 by Dave Haynes A very, very long time ago, when TVs had tubes and cell phones were too big to slide into pockets, I got my start in digital signage with a company that put screens in office tower elevators. Back in 1999, it was hugely expensive and hugely complicated. PCs were still, generally, the size of carry-on …
Korean Creative Tech Shop D’Strict Opening Projection-Driven Arte Museum On Las Vegas Strip November 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Korean creative shop that has produced some of the more amazing large format visuals seen on big public displays – including among the first anamorphic illusions – is opening what it calls an Arte Museum on the Las Vegas Strip in later this month. The projection mapping attraction will compete directly with Illuminarium and …
Genuinely Engaging And Immersive Projection Exhibit Lets Kids Draw, Color Fish For Virtual Aquarium October 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes Love this … an interactive exhibit that allows kids to draw and color fish or other marine life, have it scanned, and then appear on a big set of projection-mapped screens. Terms like immersive and engaging are wildly over-used, and quite often terribly applicable, but this is very immersive and very engaging for the target …
Virtual Models Prowl Projected Catwalk In Dutch Fashion Show October 5, 2023 by Dave Haynes This isn’t really digital signage, but an interesting application of technologies used for signage – a fashion show that uses a variation of the Pepper’s Ghost illusion to create a virtual runway/catwalk at a Dutch fashion show. A start-up called Future Front Row developed the show for Amsterdam Fashion Week. Pepper’s Ghost is an illusion …
Seoul Interactive Wall Blends Projection Mapping With Conductive Ink September 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is a fun interactive wall that blends projection mapping with conductive ink – done back in 2020 at an art center in Seoul. You can see how someone trying out the Netmarble Game Academy exhibition is seeing visuals that just arrive or are highlighted by clever projection mapping from a ceiling projector. You can …
Almost 30 Christie Laser Projectors Used To Bathe New Toronto Immersive Venue In Visuals September 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes Those are Christie projectors being used at the new Toronto location of the immersive experience company Illuminarium. The new venue in Toronto’s Distillery Historic District, an old Victorian-era warehouse quarter near downtown, uses almost 30 Christie RGB laser projectors to bathe the 13,500 square foot space in visuals. From PR: Illuminarium at The Distillery District …
UK Shops Projection-Mapped For AMEX Shop Local DOOH Campaign August 23, 2023 by Dave Haynes Most of the projection mapping we’ve seen lately has to do with experiential attractions that use a lot of tech to deliver big visuals in a controlled, darkened environment, so it is interesting to see the same kind of tech used for temporary Digital OOH ad campaigns on the streetscapes of towns and cities. This …
Napa Winery Uses Projections To Visualize Data On Fermentation Room Dome August 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes Real-time data visualization as dashboards are increasingly common use-cases for digital signage technology in production environments but a wine producer in California’s Napa region is using it in a very interesting way – projecting the data coming from its fermentation tanks on the ceiling of the room where they’re operating. Six Christie laser projectors are …
Rear Projection Set-Up Pretty Nicely Puts A Person In NYC On A Conference Panel In Atlanta August 9, 2023 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting variation of technology efforts to get a speaker or panelist at a business event, without asking the person to travel – a rear-projection set-up on a stage that reasonably nicely integrates with the stage and the other people on it. Emory University’s Goizueta Business School used a set-up from Toronto-based ARHT Media …
Touring Projection Mapping Show Firm Lighthouse Immersive Files For Bankuptcy Protection August 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes A Toronto company in the business of touring immersive indoor projection mapping shows has filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy, a sign that perhaps there has to be more to these shows than just visuals at scale. Lighthouse Immersive is best known for running temporary shows around North America that project the works of famous, long-dead …
