One World Trade Center Adds Giant LED Welcome Wall, 140-Screen Video Mosaic September 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a new exhibit that welcomes visitors to the observatory attraction at the top of One World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, on the site of the twin towers brought down almost 20 years ago on 9/11. Developed and delivered by Montreal creative and tech shop Float4, there is a set of video displays …
Syracuse Restaurant Goes To Town With Projection Mapping For Immersive Dining July 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes The notion of using projection-mapping to create immersive dining experiences in restaurants is not entirely new, but a Syracuse, NY restaurant really goes to town with the concept – with visuals not only on the table, but the surrounding walls. The Spot 625 Restaurant uses Optoma short-throw projectors and a lot of custom content to …
NJ Realty Corp. Uses Projection Mapping To Create Experience In HQ Lobby July 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes There’s been lots of activity in pro AV circles, using large format LED to deliver an experience for tenants and visitors in commercial building lobbies. But in the right conditions, projection is an effective (and probably cost effective) alternative. This is the lobby of Mack-Cali Realty Corporation in Jersey City, NJ, as tricked out by …
Sharp/NEC Start Formally Marketing Smart Window Film For Privacy, Digital Signage June 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes The conjoined Sharp/NEC display company has started formally marketing the projection on switchable glass solution that the old NEC started showing at trade shows about three years ago. The idea is that you have electrically controlled interior glass that can be clear when it needs to be, or switched to opaque – for privacy or …
Chicago Museum Celebrates Famed Art Deco Train With 170 Foot Projection Wall June 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting take on the idea of using video walls to create the sense of motion outside a museum object – in this case a train. Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) celebrates the famed Zephyr rail line in the U.S. – a super-streamlined engine and cars clad in stainless steel – …
Vegas Margaritaville Entertains Bar Guests With Transformed Projection Mapping Show May 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is inside the Margaritaville on the Las Vegas Strip, which has a new projection-mapped and display show. It is called the Volcano Show, which from poking around online seems to be some sort of regularly scheduled multi-sensory event in the bar (walked by that place a billion times, but never been in). This new …
Another Big Robotic Video Wall Surfaces, But This One’s Safe Inside, And Done With Projection March 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s another example of one of those robotic, kinetic, three-dimensional walls that has cubes that push out and slide back in based on programmed sequences. It is is the same motion technology as what was used for that ill-fated Coca-Cola spectacular LED display in Times Square, but the biggest difference with this one is that …
Brazilian Mega-Development Uses Mosaic LCD Video Wall To Drive Leasing Sales March 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes Mosaic video walls used to be something that I’d see used quite often in digital signage projects, but the rise of DV LED seems to have curbed their use. Here’s a great example of one that went up at a sales center for a big real estate project in Brazil. Parque Global is billed as …
NYC Financial Services Offices Add Experiential Digital To Workplace Atmosphere February 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is the lobby and an upstairs lounge that have been digitally re-imagined by ESI Design for a financial services company in its New York City offices. ESI doesn’t say who, which means it can’t – as is often the case with big-name accounts. The client wanted to rejuvenate the arrival experience in the building’s …
Denys Lavigne Surfaces; Opening An Immersive Experience Venue In Montreal Tomorrow February 24, 2021 by Dave Haynes Denys Lavigne built up one of the most respected and awarded creative shops in digital signage, but Arsenal Media unfortunately petered out as a company in the wake of its 2014 acquisition by Christie. Denys eventually left, and I suspect a lot of people in digital signage have been wondering what he’s been up to. …
