Australia Roadways Engineers Using Water Projections As Giant Emergency Stop Signs April 20, 2022 by Super User Where I live, there are regular tales of commercial truck drivers ignoring low clearance warnings and taking out the overhead barriers at toll booths on one of the harbor bridges. I suspect every locale of any size has similar problems, with truck drivers blithely ignoring how their rides are too tall for overpasses and tunnel …
PepsiCo Using Big Displays, Projection-Mapping In Experiential Pop-Up For New Nitro Soda April 12, 2022 by Super User Soft drinks giant PepsiCo is using a combination of projection-mapping, interactive gesture software and large format displays to drive the experience at a pop-up venue opened to drive awareness and buzz for a new version of its flagship soda. The company gas taken over the lounge at the High Roller ferris wheel in Las Vegas …
Barcelona To Be Lit Up With Projection Mapping During ISE In May April 7, 2022 by Super User The organizers of Integrated Systems Europe have announced a set of immersive visual experiences around Barcelona next month to coincide with the giant pro AV show. Dubbed Light Up Barcelona, the short-term events will include the work of one of ISE’s keynote speakers, generative data artist Refik Anadol. The three events are: I RISE at …
Kids Cancer Ward In UK Uses Playful Projected Characters To Engage Donors April 6, 2022 by Super User The digital arts collective Universal Everything – which is not easily explained in a few words (so go here) – is behind a really interesting take on hospital donor walls that marries custom creative with short-throw projection and a mobile app for both controls and donations. Parade is described as a playful digital donor wall, …
Projection Mapping Program Illuminates 25 Toronto Sites With Public Art April 5, 2022 by Super User Projection-mapping on buildings has been around for many years, and technology advances have made it much easier to pull these things off. But there is still much to admire about a program done in Toronto that involved 25 different sites across the city. BigArtTO was a city-wide temporary public art campaign launched to help residents …
How About Projection Systems So Small They Could Be Part Of Merchandising Displays? March 29, 2022 by Super User Texas Instruments is marketing a new line of teeny projection modules, with vary brightness levels and resolutions, that are touted for applications like consumer appliances but could, in theory, be useful for some commercial digital signage applications like product displays. The newest DLP digital micro-mirror device (DMD), says TI, reduces the projection module size by …
Commercial Flat Panel Display Volume up 20.1% Year-On-Year, Projection Flat: Futuresource March 22, 2022 by Super User Year-on-year volume global sales for commercial flat panel displays jumped 20.1% in 2021, according to new data from the UK research firm Futuresource Consulting, but commercial projector growth grew by just 0.2%. Given these numbers are tied to an exceptionally weird period of lockdowns, deferred projects and supply chain shortages, they may not be indicative …
Dead-Simple Triggered Floor Projections Drive Workplace Safety March 8, 2022 by Super User This is an interesting take on the idea on the idea of using sensors to trigger content to displays, based on things like motion or other activity. Just about every use-case in digital signage for this sort of thing has been for managing line-ups or product marketing in retail, but here’s a simplified solution meant …
New Lisbon Hotel Makes Projection-Mapped Garden-Patio Its Main Draw March 4, 2022 by Super User Permanent projection mapping jobs are growing common for a bunch of technical and cost reasons, to a point that the technology and creative can now be used for efforts like the ambient entertainment at a hotel. This is the enclosed garden-patio area of the Lumen Hotel in Lisbon, which now runs a daily “Light of …
Electrosonic, Igloo Vision Partner On Projection Mapping For Workspaces March 2, 2022 by Super User The PR needs to be read a few times to cut through all the marketing blah-blah-blah stuff, but if you stick with the effort, you learn the experience-focused pro AV integrator Electrosonic has developed a partnership with Igloo Vision to kit out workplaces with immersive collaboration spaces – rooms filled floor to ceiling with visuals. UK-based …
