Expo 2020 Exhibit Mashes Up Kiosk, AR, Selfies And Projection Mapping January 26, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Al Wasl Plaza is one of the signature locations at the Expo 2020 exhibition that was COVID-delayed and now running through March in Dubai. There is a lot of technology all through the Expo site, but a Linkedin post via Christie shows a particularly inventive way to blend interactive kiosks, selfies, AR and projection …
Projection-Mapping Campaign In London Hints At Countdown Timer Tension For TV Bomb Squad January 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes A lot of the projection-mapping on large buildings has been for special events and longer-term, scheduled public shows, but here’s a case in London in which it was used for a short period to count down to the opening episode of a new TV series. A countdown clock was projected this past weekend on the …
Venetian Resort’s Faux Venice Streetscape in Vegas Projection-Mapped For Holidays December 28, 2021 by Dave Haynes People involved in projection mapping work on buildings have to – when necessary – explain to clients that the visual experience only works when the sun goes down, but here’s a case in which projecting on a historic streetscape could work any time of day … because the building facades are indoors. The Venetian Resort …
Boston Market Building’s Atrium Transformed Through Indoor Projection-Mapping December 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a really interesting use of an otherwise unproductive atrium space in a market building in Quincy, MA, a south Boston suburb. The Gallery at Kilroy Square is now an interactive canvas for local and regional digital artists that will switch out exhibitions easily, because the main delivery mechanism is projection mapping. The program …
Hershey School Use Large-Scale Projections, Interactive Displays To Tell Story In Its Founders Hall December 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes I did not know that buying Hershey’s chocolate products helps fund a boarding school in Pennsylvania that provides a high-level but free education to 1,000s of kids from working-class, lower-income families. The Milton Hershey School, named after the famous chocolatier, has been providing free education to primary through high school kids for more than a …
High-End Guangzhou Restaurant Uses Projection On Walls, Table To Create Immersive Dining Experience November 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a fine-dining restaurant in the south China port city of Guangzhou that set up a dedicated VIP dining room that uses wall and overhead projection to create an immersive dining experience. The restaurant adopted a unique “Maritime Silk Road” theme that relates a time when that area was not the world epicenter of electronics …
London Coffee Shop Uses Projection To Create Wall-Filling, Animated Ordering Menus October 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes When industry people think about digitizing menus for the quick service and fast casual restaurant industries, they’re almost certainly thinking about how many flat panel displays will be needed, and where they’ll go. But using projection on the walls behind counters offers an interesting, very flexible alternative solution. This is a coffee shop in London …
Bowling Lanes Go Experiential With Projection-Mapped Lanes And Real-Time Ball Tracking October 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is not digital signage, but the tech applied and the underlying software applications are very similar. A company based in Orlando has started delivering a product and service called Unreal Bowling, which uses projection mapping to light up the lanes in bowling alleys with interactive content experiences and breathe new life into a decades-old …
LaGuardia Turns The Tap On For Giant Projected Water Curtain Show In Reno’d Terminal B September 27, 2021 by Dave Haynes I’m not sure I’d reference this water fountain projection thingie at the renovated (thank God!) NY LaGuardia Airport as a digital signage job, but it kinda sorta is, I suppose. The Water Feature in the hugely improved (by the looks of it) Terminal B is like a giant, computer-controlled rainfall shower in the terminal that …
Heathrow Express Mashes Up Projection, Sensors To Urge Travellers To Take Express Train In From Heathrow September 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes I thought Microsoft killed off the Kinect sensor program years ago, but it evidently exists in a much more sophisticated, commercial-grade form aimed at interactive and mixed reality applications. This version is called Azure Kinect and it is being used, as one example, for an interesting “activation” at London’s Heathrow Airport. If you have ever …
