Napa Winery Uses Projections To Visualize Data On Fermentation Room Dome August 10, 2023 by Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 …
Epson Touts New Short-Throw Projector That Can Blast 160 Visuals From Inches Away June 8, 2023 by Super User I’d need to be much more of a projection nerd to appreciate most of what Epson is touting as its must-see products for its presence next week at InfoComm in Orlando, but there was one new advance I can easily get my head around – a short-throw projector that can blast a 160-inch diagonal image …
It’s Now Possible To Map And Project On Moving Objects In Real Time June 7, 2023 by Super User Projection mapping has steadily grown easier and better through the years, and is now at a point that a software-hardware technology stack can do all the work to accurately map and project on moving objects … in real time. It was not all that long ago that mapping a stationary object – like a building …
Watch: Miami-Area Resort Lobby Pairs Rainfall Water Feature With Projection-Driven Multimedia Experience May 19, 2023 by Super User Multimedia installations have sometimes supplanted fountains and other water features in office, mall and hotel lobbies because digital is changeable and problems with digital are usually much easier than problems with pumps and filters, but here’s a casino resort lobby that blends sync’d lighting and projection with a giant rain head shower feature. It …
Clever Dublin Billboard Campaign Customizes Messages To People, Groups Passing By May 2, 2023 by Super User This is quite clever – a billboard campaign in Dublin that uses projection mapping to flash cheeky messages in real-time to people walking through a neighbourhood. The awareness campaign for a new Tesco Express c-store in the Charlemont Square uses high-bright projection to push messages to a blank static billboard that people can see from …
Visual Merchandising Demo Pairs Content Trigger With Projection Mapping At Fixture April 28, 2023 by Super User This is an interesting mash-up of a conventional display and small-scale projection mapping for visual merchandising in retail. It’s a trade show demo done by the UK firm Motion Mapping, which does projections on everything from big building facades to small surfaces in retail and elsewhere. I THINK that’s an LCD paired with projection, but …
LG Launches “First” Digital Signage-Specific Projector, With Built-in SoC Smarts And webOS Support March 29, 2023 by Super User LG Electronics has taken the interesting step of developing and marketing a new 4K laser, 7,000 lumens projector it says is specifically tuned to the needs of digital signage applications. LG has been manufacturing and marketing projectors for years, but the main use-cases have been applications like corporate boardrooms and lecture theaters. What’s perhaps interesting …
Hotel Near Disneyland Uses Displays, Projection To Make “Grand Magic” In Lobby March 24, 2023 by Super User The hotels sector has long been an active investor in digital signage, but with the notable exception of casino resorts, most properties have paid for projects that would be described as modest. Like a video wall behind the check-in and directory displays. Then there’s the Grand Magic Hotel near Disneyland Paris … Schroders, the investment …
