Anti-Racism Center Uses AR, Contactless Payments To Raise Funds Off Sidewalk DOOH Screens November 14, 2018 by Super User This is an interesting mash-up of augmented reality, sensors, contactless payment tech and digital OOH displays executed by JCDecaux in Norway, for the Norwegian Centre Against Racism In Lillestrøm. The fundraising campaign shows a bunch of white power thugs, on a street furniture screen, approaching people and chanting their nasty bile. That stops and they …
Sony’s Crystal LED Wall Spotted In Real World Retail Install November 9, 2018 by Super User A reader, doubling as a volunteer operative, sent me pix from Toronto’s ritzy Yorkdale mall of an actual, real installation of that giant, gorgeous Sony “crystal LED” screen that’s shown up at trade shows for the last couple of years. The CLEDIS display – new tech that is micro/mini/something LED versus the normal surface-mounted LEDs …
New Content Program Brings Famed Artworks From MOMA Collection To NYC Rail Platforms November 9, 2018 by Super User We can only wonder what Vincent van Gogh would have thought, in his more lucid moments, of seeing his work running on screens in New York subway stations. From my perspective, Starry Night beats the hell out of career college and Learn To Speak English posters. The media company OUTFRONT has launched a content program …
Taking Analog Style, And Going Digital With It November 9, 2018 by Super User Here’s a digitized take on those analog flip-flap, flip-disc boards, like the ones coming out of Philadelphia profiled yesterday. The New Zealand wing of the Flight Centre travel agency chain, if it is like Flight Centres I’ve seen elsewhere, has for many, many years had signs in windows and inside that list airfare costs for …
LED Light Displays Show The Ebb And Flow Of Boston’s Tides, Using Data Visualization November 8, 2018 by Super User This is one of those projects that treads the line between light and signage – though I’d probably argue it’s much more about lighting. But very smart lighting, that is visualizing data. So kinda signage. Which is why I am writing about it. Tidal Light is a public data sculpture that uses addressable LED light …
Towering Statue Projection-Mapped At Night To Honor Late Indian Statesman November 1, 2018 by Super User This is pretty wild – projection mapping on the world’s tallest statue, a 182-meter tall bronze-clad tribute to an Indian statesman. The Statue of Unity in the state of Gujarat honors the late Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, often called the “Iron Man of India” for his role in the nation’s struggle for independence. For some sense …
GameStop Rolls Out Entire Retail Signage Network On Chromeboxes November 1, 2018 by Super User GameStop has long had digital signage in its video and PC gamer-focused stores, but now the full network of screens across 3,800-plus locations is running on ChromeOS and commercial Chromebox players. GameStop TV features product promotions, game previews, developer interviews and other customized content, as well as advertising. All content is targeted to video game …
Cinemex Using Creative Video Walls To Elevate Moviehouse Experiences November 1, 2018 by Super User Here’s a of glimpses at the ambitious and interesting digital signage implementations happening with the Cinemex moviehouse chain in Mexico. Across the 300 site chain, Mexican integrator Multimedia Corp. has put in 8,000 screens driven by some 1,300 players. The company is a longtime Scala reseller/solutions provider. At times, the content is also sync’d, even …
IAC Refreshes Giant NYC HQ Lobby Video Wall, Using 1.4mm LED October 31, 2018 by Super User This is the second iteration of a massive video wall in the lobby of the NYC-based internet media company IAC. The first version went up in 2012, using Prysm laser phosphor display cubes. Six years on, V2 uses 1.4mm pixel pitch LED modules. The 117×10-foot wall was designed, engineered and integrated by Video Corporation of America …
Projection Mapping Used To Tell Concorde’s Story, With The Jet As The Screen October 29, 2018 by Super User Here’s a great example of projection mapping being used to tell a story, with the subject of that story doubling as the digital canvas. A specially constructed hangar at Aerospace Bristol in England is home to the last Concorde supersonic passenger jet ever built, and the long, lean jet itself is used as the projection surface …
