DC-area Office Tower Uses LED To Visually Energize Lobby June 12, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is the lobby of the 31-story CEB Tower in Arlington, Virginia, in the immediate orbit of Washington, DC. The building’s centerpiece visual is a 19 feet high by 38 feet wide 4mm pitch LED wall that fronts and wraps around the end of the facade of the elevator shaft. It uses Sansi’s LED technology and content …
Right-Angle Fine Pitch LED Wall Centerpiece Of Arab National Bank Branch In Riyadh June 12, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a major branch of Arab National Bank in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with the digital components just completed and switched on by Dubai-based digital signage solutions firm 2point0 Concepts. The branch on Tahlia Street, which is Riyadh’s main shopping strip, has a big mix of direct view LED and interactive LCD screens. The main feature …
Shenzhen Ops Center Gets 121-Foot Wide Fine Pitch Monitoring Wall June 1, 2018 by Dave Haynes It hasn’t really happened in North America or, likely, EMEA, but in China, fine pitch LED is increasingly supplanting projection tiles, edge-blended projection and narrow bezels LCDs as the tech of choice for big control room environments. If the room is big enough and operators are set back enough, the clarity is there for …
Transparent Shop Window LEDs Drive Brand, Foot Traffic At San Francisco Levi’s Flagship May 29, 2018 by Dave Haynes The flagship Levi Strauss & Co. store at Market and 4th Street in San Francisco is using a nice pair of transparent LED screens in the big shop windows to drive the brand and pull people inside. The shop windows are running video pieces using Reflect’s CMS and two FLEXClear transparent LED video displays from …
New Sphere Touted For Vegas Would Have 170,000 Sq. Ft. High-Rez LED Display May 25, 2018 by Dave Haynes Las Vegas is up there with Dubai and China for over-the-top buildings and attractions, but a new entertainment complex touted to be open in 2-3 years may top them all. The MSG Sphere is giant see-through ball that will house an 18,000 seat concert and events venue. The Sphere would be 360-feet-tall and 500-feet-wide, and …
New Boston QSR Mashes Up Robot Cooks, Touchscreens And Digital Order Signs May 25, 2018 by Dave Haynes A new quick restaurant has opened up in Boston that mashes up touchscreen order tablets and digital order status displays with a largely robotic food prep line. Cooked up by a set of MIT grads, Spyce opened at the start of the month in one location – using robotic dispensers and wok-like heating pans on …
Big LCD Video Wall Greets Visitors To New LA Stadium District May 18, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is what I assume is a feature video wall in the sales and information center for the Los Angeles Stadium and Entertainment District, a massive 300-acre urban redevelopment site that has the focal point of a 70,000-seat stadium for the Los Angeles Chargers and Los Angeles Rams – pro football teams, if you don’t …
Massive Projection-Mapping Set-Up Shows Potential Impacts Of Disappearing Louisiana Coastline May 17, 2018 by Dave Haynes Here’s an unusual but great example of projection-mapping that, for a change, is about education rather than the razzle-dazzle of sports or special events. The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and Louisiana State University (LSU) Center for River Studies worked with integrator Interstate Electronics Systems (IES) and Christie on a 90 by 120 foot movable physical …
Projects: An LED Veil And LED Floor Energize Kuwait City Mall Expansion May 15, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a series of gorgeous curved displays in The Avenues mall, a mega mall in Kuwait City. The project, called Electra, was put together by the solutions provider StandardVision in a new part of the shopping center. There is a 360 degree, 600 square meter immersive LED video veil and an interactive LED floor. All …
Freelance AV Tech Marketplace AV Junction Tops 1,000 Members May 7, 2018 by Dave Haynes AV Junction, the start-up that’s set up a dedicated online marketplace connecting AV freelancers with hiring companies like integrators, now says it has more than 1,000 entries in its database and is helping get work done globally. Founder Paul Weatherhead says he’ll have a booth at InfoComm 2018 in early June and will be launching software …
