Tech Mash-Up Blasts Interactive Fan Pix On Lux Hong Kong Hotel Facade May 3, 2018 by Dave Haynes Here’s a cool video showing how projection mapping, holograms, virtual and real light painting were mashed up for an interactive experience piece that was part of the Lumieres HK festival in Hong Kong. The LUX Experience gave visitors to Lumieres Hong Kong the chance to make light art and have it blasted on to a …
Big LED Posters Light Up Retail Space Near NYC World Trade Center May 3, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a series of new digital OOH displays in a office tower mall in the area around the rejuvenated World Trade Center complex in New York. The displays are all SNA (Sansi) LEDs – a mix of 2mm with remote power supplies and 6mm indoor modules that use outdoor-rated diodes (brighter) due to the location …
Microsoft Invests Big In Retail Interactive At Canadian Best Buys May 1, 2018 by Dave Haynes Microsoft has bankrolled and installed a series of high-profile product demo stations at eight Best Buys across Canada – presumably their primo, high-traffic stores. Each of the stores has the same installation of three kiosks, which use proximity sensors to activate marketing spots and adjust how the demo experiences operate based on the number of …
Why Bolt On A Screen When You Can Zip Tie It In Place? April 30, 2018 by Dave Haynes A reader who travels a lot doing PROPER digital signage deployments pays attention to the varying quality of work done by others and spotted this in a bar at Charlotte, NC’s international airport. The screen is being held to the support column by a zip tie, and that’s it. An injury, and then a lawsuit, …
Projects: Giant LED Tower Visually Dominates Central Court In Oman Mall April 27, 2018 by Dave Haynes The is what’s touted as the biggest LED tower in the Middle East, a 40-foot tall by 15 foot wide structure that also has an LED floor surround, now up and running at the Muscat Grand Mall in Oman. The tower which used 4mm LEDs and adds up to 263 square meters of visual canvas, …
Digital LED Waterfalls At Casino Lounge Replicate Real Falls In Nearby Mountains April 20, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a really interesting use of fine pitch LED in a new resort casino in New York state’s Catskills region. It’s a 2.5mm pixel pitch curved wall behind the Empire Lounge bar stage at Resorts World Catskills, which opened about 10 weeks ago. The 42 feet wide, 13 feet tall canvas has a resolution …
Projects: Mosaic Video Walls At Stella McCartney Flagships April 18, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is the video wall set-up being put in at 11 Stella McCartney flagship stores across Europe, the US and Asia, highlighting the spring and summer collections for the fashion house. UK integrator Freehand put the project together, developing visual interesting mosaics instead of just grouping them in big rectangles in the high street windows. …
LED And The Perils Of Public Reach April 17, 2018 by Dave Haynes Medium to fine pitch LED displays can have tremendous visual impact in the right environment, but the thing customers should always bear in mind is that the little surface-mounted LED chips that produce the colored light are fragile – attached to their substrates with microscopic wiring. In plain terms, if they’re within public reach – …
Menu Board Hack – Using Extending Mounts To Compensate For Bad Design April 9, 2018 by Dave Haynes Spotted by a regular reader at a food stand in T2 at SFO airport – QSR menu screens with mounts that pull the screen out from the wall recesses when they need to be serviced … except they just left them out. Doesn’t look good, with cables hanging down, tilted screens and so on. And …
Projects: Century-old Garden Center Group Takes (Some Of) Its Messaging Digital April 5, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a straightforward menuboard and messaging boards set-up at Notcutts Garden Centres Ltd – which has 18 individual garden centres across England and has been doing this sort of thing for more than a century. The family-owned company cut over from pure print and some tablet-sized displays manually updated by thumb drive. The company did …
