SNA Wins That Massive Times Square LED Video Wall Job That Includes Embedded Stage May 17, 2019 by Super User Sansi, more widely known as SNA Displays, has won the LED job for that big new Times Square video wall that includes a built-in live performance stage. A press release says real estate investment firms L&L Holding Company, Fortress Investment Group and Maefield Development, alongside consultant Sensory Interactive, chose SNA to manufacture and install the …
Sneak Peek: Big 4mm LED Wall Ready To Go In Charlotte Office Tower Lobby May 17, 2019 by Super User This a 4mm pitch LED wall – a Nanolumens one – going in at the Charlotte head office of the real estate services firm Lincoln Harris.
Dan Hagen Of 10Net, On Building Digital Signage In The Pacific Northwest May 15, 2019 by Super User Dan Hagen is a relatively young guy, and a bit of an Energizer Bunny. I know of him as the 10net guy from Vancouver, but I was surprised to learn in a conversation that he has been involved in digital signage since before it was called digital signage. He was a funding founder of Mercury …
Seattle DSF Mixer Gets The Understory On Amazon’s Spheres May 9, 2019 by Super User It took going to Seattle to remember and realize a few things about the city and region. First, there are some really big, impactful companies out here – like Amazon, Microsoft, Costco, Boeing and a little coffee chain called Starbucks. Second, there’s more of a signage ecosystem than is maybe obvious. I am in Seattle …
Cruise Line Uses Robotic Arms For Choreographed LED Screen Shows May 4, 2019 by Super User Four Royal Caribbean cruise ships – the newer ones that are the size fully loaded container ships – are now using screens on robotic arms for entertainment. The cruise line’s Quantum Class ships – like the Spectrum of the Seas – have lounges with these dancing screens, using ABB robotics arms. The first ones went …
From Oldest To Newest: Barclays Refreshes Massive LED Facade in NY Times Square May 3, 2019 by Super User The UK-based investment bank Barclays has refreshed the LED displays on the facade of its New York City headquarters on Seventh Avenue, putting on 7,046 square feet of new direct LED. “The enhanced signage system is a powerful example of how we infuse digital innovation into everything we do here at Barclays,” says Richard Haworth, …
Another, Very Different Digital Signage Fail At Timmies May 2, 2019 by Super User This is a Tim Horton’s in downtown Toronto this morning, as spotted by a digital signage vet. I’ve seen lots of Timmies where one or several screens are out – notably at Montreal’s airport – but this is a new one. Things are working – but the screens all have on-screen messaging for SICOM, weirdly …
San Francisco Venue Using Projection Mapping To Create Immersive Dining Experience May 2, 2019 by Super User Projection-mapping seems to be finding its way, more and more, to full-time or extended run indoor projects that are about entertainment and experience. This is F.E.A.S.T – an immersive and interactive dining experience at a San Francisco entertainment, arts and events venue called Onedome. It is a dining experience that combines interactive digital art, music, a …
Vancouver Office Tower Uses OLED Video Wall To Replace Directory, Renew Lobby May 2, 2019 by Super User This is a tiled LG 2 by 6 OLED video wall built into the lobby wall of an office tower in downtown Vancouver, BC. The displays are set into a bamboo wood wall set against a granite wall. They replaced a physical building directory. The project at Park Place, at 666 Burrard Street, was put …
Canada’s Mountain Equipment Coop Outsources In-Store Digital Signage To Cineplex April 30, 2019 by Super User Immediately on the heels of my rant about a sporting goods retailer doing digital signage badly comes word of another Canadian retailer – also kinda sorta in the same category – expanding and revising its in-store digital signage. Mountain Equipment Coop, or MEC, is very much like REI in the United States – with goods …
