Amazon’s LED-filled Visitor Center Explains Its New Rainforest Office Space In Seattle April 5, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is an area called Understory – an LED-filled exhibit and visitor center tied in with The Spheres – three giant intersecting, plant-filled domes that are part of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters building. The domes house more than 40,000 plants from the cloud forest regions of over 30 countries – making for a workplace that feels, …
Here Are The DSE 2018 Project And Creative Award Winners … March 30, 2018 by Dave Haynes Here are the winners from this year’s awards program at Digital Signage Expo, announced and handed out Wednesday at a reception. Arts, Entertainment and Recreation McCann Systems for 150 Media Stream Business and Government Services Dreambox Visual Communications for 22nd World Petroleum Congress Official Opening Ceremony Education and Healthcare Forge Media + Design for Holomodor …
Grocery Digital OOH Network Has 1,000-Plus Screens Up At Checkouts, With Plans For As Many As 25,000 March 26, 2018 by Dave Haynes Denver-based Ping HD has done a potentially lucrative deal to be the CMS under the hood for an ambitious digital OOH network going into U.S. supermarkets – primarily at the checkout lanes. Adcorp Media Group is putting 10 to 12 32-inch Samsung System on Chip (SoC) displays in stores, with roughly 100 already up and …
16:9 Projects Podcast: A 16K LED Ceiling On Chicago’s Magnificent Mile March 23, 2018 by Dave Haynes While shopping at Chicago’s Magnificent Mile mall patrons can look to the ceiling and see a 190 foot long canopy of trees. Or, if they look at another moment, they may see a kaleidoscope of colours or a flock of local birds. That’s because the skylight is actually a high definition LED canvas with content …
Projects: Big LED Greets Arriving Passengers At Atlanta Hartsfield March 22, 2018 by Dave Haynes Making a quick stop in Atlanta – which was seriously chilly last night and is again this morning – for the last of eight speaking sessions on Samsung’s Resolution Tour. It had been a while since I more than connected through Hartsfield, so it was interesting to get off that train that runs between terminals …
Chopper Hauls 300-Ft Projection-Mapped Screen Across Dubai Skyline March 20, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is the world’s largest aerial projection screen, executed (unsurprisingly) in or more accurately over Dubai recently. It involves a 300-foot fabric aerial screen towed by a Bell 212 Helicopter, while a second Bell 212 projected the video onto the screen, using projection mapping. The content is a visual tribute to Shaikh Zayed, who Wikipedia …
Oslo’s Main Rail Station Adds 31 Sq. Meter Curved LED March 15, 2018 by Dave Haynes I like the curve on this new JCDecaux indoor LED at Oslo’s central train station. It is 31 square meters of LED, and you can see there are nearby screens that sync the same content. The specs page for the install – which is in front of about 1 million commuters and travellers weekly – …
Projects: Bank Of Hawaii’s Main Branch Uses 33 Feet Of 3MM LED In Refreshed Lobby March 13, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a good example of what I call the new lobby water fountain – a tight pitch LED video wall that’s the visual centerpiece of a big bank renovation. In the old days, big companies and office property developers put in water features in the lobbies and common areas. Now they’re putting in LED …
Video: BMO’s 200 Years Marked On Interactive Timeline Video Wall In Toronto March 13, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a nice interactive wall Cineplex Digital Media put together for BMO Financial Group (Bank of Montreal) to celebrate that company’s 200th anniversary. The timeline-based wall was installed in the underground walkway system that links much of downtown Toronto – in this case on a stretch below the company’s head office. The video strongly …
Projects: Interactive At Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian March 1, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., which has a series of touchscreens that connect visitors to the stories behind the images and objects on display, as well a web-based mobile experience. It’s all about the use of American Indian imagery and iconography as part …
