Tokyo’s Shinjuku District About To Get Even More Animated With Nightly Projection Mapping Shows February 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes The bustling Shinjuku business and entertainment district of Tokyo is about to host what is billed as the largest permanent projection mapping experience – nightly shows on a 48-storey office tower. Starting Feb. 25th, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government is hosting the free nightly projection mapping displays – calling it “Tokyo Night & Light.” The year-round …
Clever NYC CampaignCombines Full-Time Mural With Projection-Mapped Animations After Sunset February 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes Projection-mapping when done well can be quite awesome, but using that technology for advertising and special events has always been somewhat constrained by projection’s greatest adversary – natural light. So I was intrigued and impressed by an effort in New York that blends a colorful full-time mural for a brand in a high profile space …
Projection Used To Explain Port Wine Production On Giant Barrels February 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes I’ve always liked projection for digital signage but the technology has often had limited application because of the battle it faces with ambient light. But I found a really nice application for it yesterday at a port cave in Portugal. In Gaia, on the other side of the river from Porto, there are numerous port …
Barcelona’s Iconic Casa Batlló To Again Be Projection-Mapped Next Weekend Ahead Of ISE January 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes If you are into projection mapping and going to Barcelona for ISE, you might want to put this free public show on your schedule if you get in next weekend, ahead of the show’s formal start date. From ISE’s PR: To commemorate the 20th anniversary of ISE and the 200th anniversary of Passeig de Gràcia, …
Projection-Mapped Church Show Draws Almost 100K Paid Viewers Over Its Run In Bordeaux January 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes A lot of the recent attention around projection-mapped environments lately has been with commercial attractions – like Illuminarium and Montreal’s Oasis Immersion – but there’s also interesting work going on that delivers experiences but also has broader benefits. A projection-mapped show, mixed with live orchestral music, sold almost 100,000 tickets during a just-finished run at …
Ladies And Gentleman, Elvis Is Coming Back To The Building … Virtually, In London Later This Year January 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes Via AV Interactive … Ladies and Gentleman, Elvis may have left the building and planet, but he’s coming back … sorta. Hat Tip to AV Interactive for reporting that Elvis Presley is being virtually raised from the dead to perform as a hologram-ish projected entity at a new immersive attraction targeted to open later this …
CES Is Imminent, And The Big Consumer Brands Are Once Again Previewing Interesting But Dubious Concept Products January 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes The giant consumer-focused tech trade show CES is next week in Las Vegas, and there will be all kinds of digital signage and pro AV people going and enduring the line-ups and even-higher-then-normal prices for rooms and transport. The show doesn’t have a whole bunch to do with commercial AV, other than offering glimpses of …
Seoul Creative Shop d’strict Opens Arte Museum On LV Strip December 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Seoul creative shop that generates some of the most compelling video wall content on the planet has opened a bricks and mortar showcase in Las Vegas that features, among many things, some of its best-known work. d’strict has opened up the Arte Museum in the steadily evolving City Center complex at Las Vegas Boulevard …
Exhibition Hub Founder Mario Iacampo Has Passed Away November 22, 2023 by Dave Haynes Photo: Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press A service is set for Saturday in Brussels for Mario Iacampo, one of the pioneers in the steadily emerging and evolving immersive attractions space. Iacampo was the CEO and Creative Director of Exhibition Hub, which was putting on touring projection-mapping attractions around the world, most notably Van Gogh: The Immersive …
Grocer In Andorra Uses Floor Projection, LED-Wrapped Column To Create Entryway Experience November 17, 2023 by Dave Haynes A grocer in the small principality of Andorra is blended projections on the floor with a big LED-clad support column to put some experience into the arrivals of shoppers. The French retail chain E. Leclerc wanted its store in Andorra (the country is in the Pyrenees on the Spain-France border) to offer a special shopping …
