New Cruise Ship Features 305 Foot LED Barrel Ceiling November 4, 2019 by Super User Moving to a coastal city that’s a tourist magnet means I now see giant cruise ships all summer and fall when we get down to the harbor. Some days, there are as many as five ships docked in Halifax. I am steadily amazed at how insanely big the newest ships are, and one that’s launching …
30,000 Feet Of Programmable LEDs Drive New Guitar Hotel’s Media Facade November 1, 2019 by Super User This is the LED lighting show on the newly opened Guitar Hotel at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino just outside of Miami. The 34-story destination resort has nearly 30,000 linear feet of programmable LEDs that wrap the building and conform to the unique contoured exterior. The vertical guitar strings on the building extend …
Puma Opens Screen-Filled Immersive Skill Cube In NYC Flagship Store October 30, 2019 by Super User A lot of athletic shoe flagship stores in NYC seem to build their signature customer experiences around hoops, which makes sense for many reasons, but Puma’s new flagship is focused instead on what the Brits call footy. The Skill Cube immerses visitors in a room fitted 270° floor to ceiling with narrow bezel LCD screens, supplemented …
A Quick Look At New Digital Signage In Downtown San Francisco October 29, 2019 by Super User I was in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago to see all the Samsung/PrismView LED and smart displays at the new Chase Center, but I also had a couple of free hours to have a quick look around. I’ve seen the LED displays in the lobbies of the cluster of Salesforce office towers downtown, …
1,312 Dining Positions Projection-Mapped For Amway Celebration Dinner October 29, 2019 by Super User Hat Tip AV Magazine The multi-level marketing company Amway celebrated 60 years in business with a massive dinner for 1,300 in Las Vegas, using projection-mapping at each diner’s seating position. The private dinner at the Mandalay Bay was pulled together by event agency Wilson Dow, which contracted the projection mapping company Skullmapping, which has a background doing this …
Canada’s CBC Fills Election Night Set With Direct-view LED October 29, 2019 by Super User Canada had its federal election last week – a five week or so sprint of an election instead of the ones south of us, in the US, which seemingly never really end. One of the national broadcasters – the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – had a one-night elections set that heavily used direct view LED to …
Houston Office Block Enlivens Lobby With 32′ by 18′ LED Wall October 28, 2019 by Super User Here’s another example of what I assume will continue to be a trend in the commercial property business to enliven the lobbies of their big buildings with large format LED displays. In this case, it is 1100 Louisiana, an office block owned by the international real estate firm Hines. Ground-floor renovations to the building included …
Another Shape-Shifting LED Screen Surfaces, This Time In Malaysia October 28, 2019 by Super User You’d think when a top five global brand has a dismal failure with its splashy, expensive and very high profile robotic LED display, that would get around to the potential user base and put the brakes on other deep-pocketed companies trying the same thing. Apparently not … This is somewhere in Malaysia – probably Kuala …
NBA’s Warriors Light Up LED-laden New Home Court Building In San Francisco October 21, 2019 by Super User Sports and entertainment venues have long been an opportune market for digital signage vendors because of the need for owner/operators to both communicate a lot of changing information, and drive the visual excitement of the event experience. They’re also opportune because venue operators are pretty steadily looking to up their technology game, particularly with newly …
Vitamin Shoppe’s New Innovation Store Includes Clever Product Look-Up Screen October 11, 2019 by Super User This is the newly-opened innovation store/store of the future for Vitamin Shoppe, which sells guess what. The store in Edgewater, NJ (pretty much across the Hudson from the Harlem district of NYC) has been updated with a new design and layout, but I mention this job because the store does a couple of things with …
