Apollo 11 Moonshot Projection-Mapped On Washington Monument July 18, 2019 by Dave Haynes We are in the midst of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon – something I am old enough to remember following on an antenna-fed black and white TV in a Wisconsin campground. Technology has improved just a bit in five decades, and the amazing Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in …
Video: Mind-blowing 3D Content At Giant Seoul Duty-Free July 15, 2019 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip Gary Kayye for noting thus on LinkedIn … You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Vimeo. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers. More Information Unblock content Accept required service and unblock content This is some rather amazing three …
Faux Fireworks On Digital Canvases Complement Real Kabooms On July 4th July 15, 2019 by Dave Haynes I’d way rather see the real thing, like here, but putting digital fireworks on giant canvases like projection and LED is still an interesting way to celebrate a national holiday. The LA-based design studio StandardVision has produced and published a pair of videos from earlier this month that show July 4th efforts in Los Angeles …
Pop-Up Shop In Flashy UK Mall Uses AI To Highlight Trendiest Togs July 3, 2019 by Dave Haynes The major shopping center Westfield London has launched a pop-up store that uses artificial intelligence from Nextatlas to identify, curate and display the hottest fashion trends available in that mall. It’s a short-term demo, with proceeds going to the Save The Children charity. The online retail public Essential Retail reports: The Trending Store pop-up, which will …
Charlotte Office Tower Lobby Adds Huge, Curved 4K LED Wall July 2, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is a newly installed and fired-up direct view LED video wall in the lobby of a new office tower in the financial services-dominant downtown of Charlotte, NC, spotted on Linkedin. The thing is a beast – large enough to deliver 4K visuals even though the pixel pitch is 4.7mm, which is almost 2X the …
A Look Inside McDonald’s New Interactive Screen-Filled Global HQ June 28, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is a look inside the new global HQ for McDonald’s, which has come in from the Chicago suburbs to an older building in the West Loop area that was previously home to Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios. The space looks beautiful, and has numerous experiential interactive displays put together by the Chicago design shop Leviathan. …
Spanish Football Club Celebrates Its Past With Projection-Filled Museum At Home Stadium June 24, 2019 by Dave Haynes The Spanish La Liga football team Athletic Bilbao celebrates more than a century of top-level competition in a museum on the grounds of San Mamés stadium, where it plays home games. The museum in Bilbao has been equipped with more than 30 Christie laser projectors, using short throw lenses, to tell the club’s story through the …
Debacle On 34th Street: One Very Big, Very Out Fine Pitch LED June 20, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is the Footlocker store on 34th Street in New York, across from Macy’s. An industry colleague sent me a photo showing the huge LED wall, intersected by an escalator, was out. Not good, but I figured, cut the guys a break – it could be a maintenance issue and maybe the screen was back …
Family Fare Grocery Chain Using Digital Merchandising Displays And End-Caps June 19, 2019 by Dave Haynes Here are a couple of different digital merchandising displays put together for the Family Fare supermarket chain by another Grand Rapids’ MI-based company, Freshwater Digital. One is a digital end cap marketing what I assume are hemp-based CBD oil products, with the interesting wrinkle that a small tablet is down at waist level to enable interactive …
Deloitte’s IoT Dashboard Video Wall Logs What’s Happening In Toronto Offices June 6, 2019 by Dave Haynes Following up on that post about seeing a big BMO LED wall while on a layover, I also popped by the lobby of consulting giant Deloitte’s main Toronto office to see a video wall in its reception area that a friend said was interesting. The wall on the mezzanine level, where visitors check in, shows …
