Kids Cancer Ward In UK Uses Playful Projected Characters To Engage Donors April 6, 2022 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Projection-Mapped Illuminarium In Atlanta Sweats Asset By Adding Immersive Bar To Experiences February 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes Temporary and permanent indoor projection-mapping experiences are starting to grown common in big cities – large, open spaces like old loading docks and storage rooms in which the walls and floors are painted in edge-blended motion and still graphics. The main business model for these spaces is as large-scale art spaces that people can walk …
Subtle Mini Projection On Tabletop Fixture Helps Market Lab-Grown Diamonds February 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes A lot of what gets attention these days in digital signage and pro AV has to do with scale – the biggest this or that. Here’s something quite effective in retail at small, almost miniature scale. It’s a tabletop projection display by Dallas-based Glass Media for the lab-grown diamond brand Clear Origin. I don’t have …
Is The Beijing Bird’s Nest Floor One Big LED Display? February 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes I watched a little of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony this morning as Nespresso very slowly re-animated me, and thought to myself, “That’s some serious projection-mapping going on there.” But looking online at some of the images coming out of the Bird’s Nest stadium, I am now thinking the whole stadium floor and the ramp …
