Future Stores Opens Up In London; Almost 1,900 Fine-Pitch LED Cabinets On Walls And Ceiling October 31, 2024 by Dave Haynes The immersive pop-up retail venue Future Stores has now opened in London, with Intel as the first short-term tenant. I cannot find any formal announcement on the launch, but have done a couple of posts about it and did a recent podcast with the guy behind it, Ariel Haroush of Outform. So I am shamelessly …
Charlotte’s NASCAR Track Upgrades To 200 Foot Wide LED Board October 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina has lit up one of the larger LED displays on the planet – a 200 foot wide by 77 high beast visible to pretty much everyone who comes to watch NASCAR racing. The display was built and installed by Dallas-based GoVision, using DigiLED’s product. It is described as being …
This Window Glass Dynamically Shapeshifts, Grows Virtual Plants To Create Shade October 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Dutch start-up VideowindoW had a big moment this week at a trade show called Glass Technology Live, showing its very interesting dimmable glass that can use animated creative to block the glare and heat flooding a space like an airport departure seating area. Working with a consortium that included Arnold Glas and LamiPress, VideowindoW showed a …
64 LCDs Stacked, Tiled To Create Massive 52K By 8K Trade Show Video Wall October 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here is an interesting technical reminder that LCD video walls are still out there … a demo of a massive video wall canvas by the French firm Analog Way and its partners, for a trade show in Hamburg this week. The system is thought to be the world’s largest syncrhonized pixel canvas, using a 61,440 …
Preview: Pix From Launch Event For Future Stores In London October 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes That very ambitious, digitally-driven pop-up store on Oxford Street in London had a preview party the other night, ahead of its formal opening next week. Future Stores is a space that brands can lease for short-terms – if for example a consumer device company with, I dunno, AR eyeglasses, wanted to make a big splash …
Big 3 By 5 Meter Kinetic LED Tower Now Shape-Shifting At LG-Backed Korean Cultural Space October 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s a real world example of that kinetic LED tower that LG has shown this year at ISE and then InfoComm, an installation at a new cultural space in the Korean port city of Incheon. It is a bit of an inside job, so to speak, in that the venue – called Museum L – …
Sphere’s Owners Partner With Abu Dhabi Government To Put A Vegas-Scale Version In That Emirate October 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Most observers will have long ago concluded that if another version of the Las Vegas Sphere was going to be built, it would likely be in the Gulf region – where big-money Wow Factors projects are regularly announced and often built. Sphere Entertainment, the live entertainment company that owns Sphere, has announced intentions to bring …
Downtown Dallas Sports Bar Installs Giant LED Halo Over Drinks Area October 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is a sports bar in Dallas that now how has a center-hug halo LED display over one of the drinks stations and visible to presumably everyone in the place. The Hero Bar at 3090 Nowitzki Way is next to the American Airlines Center, home arena to both the NHL’s Dallas Stars and NBA’s Dallas …
Telecom’s Tech Arm Makes Immersive LED Cube A Main Feature Of New Flagship Space In Madrid October 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes Telefónica Tech, the technology arm of the telecom giant Telefónica, has added an LED-driven immersive cube experience to its new flagship venue in Madrid, the Espacio Movistar. The cube is a five-sided installation that enables 360-degree immersive experiences using visual effects and surround sound. Visitors enter through a big stainless steel portal. The set-up uses …
Fans Could See Themselves As Adele On Giant LED Screen During Singer’s Munich Concert Residency October 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes Singer Adele’s month-long run at a pop-up concert venue in Munich this summer attracted a lot of attention for the sheer scale of the very wide LED backdrop, but the show also had a clever social media/AR thing happening that allowed fans to have their faces swapping out the star performer’s face. They did that …
