3D-Printed Skyscraper Miniatures Drive Slick Interactive Touch-Table November 28, 2017 by Super User This is a slick interactive application that uses 3D printed miniatures of landmark buildings in Singapore to explain the building technologies behind them, by placing the miniatures on a touchscreen that has built-in optical marker recognition capability. The project is for the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore. Make Studios created a 3D printed skyline …
16:9 Projects Podcast: The Story Behind That 13K LED Wall In Netflix’s HQ Lobby November 24, 2017 by Danica Trapara Imagine, while sitting in the lobby waiting for your next meeting, three walls around you change, placing you in a cocaine manufacturing camp in the jungles of Colombia. Minutes later, they change again to drop you into a prison cafeteria in upper New York state. When Netflix was designing the lobby of their new Hollywood …
Video Walls Can Be Amazing Even With Very Low Rez LEDs: Exhibit A November 23, 2017 by Super User The lion’s share of the buzz these days with LED displays is with the increasingly fine pitch modules that provide HD visuals even on outdoor jobs. But there’s a lot to be said for clever work that uses low-rez, anything but fine pitch, LED products to create a great visual experience. This is the College Football …
Big Curving LED Welcomes Visitors To Stanford’s New House Of Champions November 21, 2017 by Super User This is the new Home of Champions hall of fame-ish center at Stanford University – an old basketball gymnasium in the athletic department’s building on campus that is now a central showcase for the school’s sports teams and individual athletes. Opened to the public in September 2017, the museum now houses over 40 displays celebrating the …
Renovated Abu Dhabi Telecom Retailer Has Wall To Wall Screens November 20, 2017 by Super User Via Linkedin This is the renovated Axiom Telecom store in Dalma Mall in Abu Dhabi – which has a Microsoft Store-like approach to LCD displays not just being screens on walls, but largely being the walls. I like. Axiom is a big retailer and distributor of wireless products in the region.
Starbucks Markets Seattle Office Space It Owns Using Vast Projection Wall In Lobby November 17, 2017 by Super User There is so much fine pitch LED stuff going in as video walls these days that it is easy to forget about other ways of doing a big digital canvas, like projection. This is a project in Seattle in a building owned by Starbuck’s – but it is NOT the head office, just commercial property …
ASU’s New Law Center Adds Three Very Different Video Walls November 16, 2017 by Super User This is the new Arizona State University Beus Center for Law in downtown Phoenix,, which includes three very different video walls put in by integrator Level 3 Audiovisual. There is: An 11.5 ft high by 33 ft wide, multi-window-capable Nanolumens video wall that adjusts to the desert sun through the day; A 2×6 interactive Multitaction …
Here’s A Giant Whirly-Twirly LED Sign In A Chinese Public Park November 16, 2017 by Super User This is a set of rotating screens on pylons in a public park/square in Shandong, China, which is between Beijing and Shanghai. The watermark on the video clearly shows it is a Unilumin LED product. It’s interesting. There’s a bit of a debate going on through a Linkedin post about it, suggesting this is pointless …
Chicago Mall Gets Stunning Makeover With Huge LED Canopy November 15, 2017 by Super User This is great – a stunning use of fine pitch LED in the ceiling of a seven-level shopping and lifestyle center on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. The centerpiece of a makeover at 900 North Michigan Shops is a massive, 190-foot-long digital art installation spanning the ceiling of the nearly 30-year-old complex. Visible from all floors, and built in …
16:9 Projects Podcast: Wells Fargo Center In Philadelphia October 27, 2017 by Danica Trapara Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia is home to both the 76ers basketball team and Flyers hockey team, as well as the usual stream of arena-scale concerts and events (I’m looking at you Disney On Ice). So imagine trying to install almost 20,000 square feet of interior LED displays throughout the venue without being able to …
