Sphere’s Owners Partner With Abu Dhabi Government To Put A Vegas-Scale Version In That Emirate October 16, 2024 by Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 …
Info Screen In Way Of Subway Station Renos, So Construction Crew Just Builds Around (Most Of) It October 8, 2024 by Super User There will hopefully be some logic to this, but here’s a screwball workaround to dealing with passenger information displays while a subway station is undergoing renovations. Instead of taking a ceiling-mounted display down, the framing crew just built around the screen, so that just a portion of it is now visible to riders. This is …
The Biggest Indoor DOOH Billboard In Europe Derailed At London Station, Just A Year After Lighting Up October 8, 2024 by Super User Europe’s largest indoor digital billboard has been switched off less than a year after being installed, but not for technical or energy conservation reasons. The government-owned company that manages the UK’s train network and stations has ordered the big ad display shut off because of larger problems, like overcrowding, at London’s Euston Station. Network Rail …
Near-Transparent LED Panels Create Faux Water Feature At Guilin, China Exhibition Hall October 4, 2024 by Super User The flowery descriptions and misuse of holographic and invisible are a bit much, but this installation using super-thin mesh-like display panels made by the Chinese company Muxwave is nonetheless interesting. There was a point when big video walls started replacing things like high-maintenance water features in the lobbies of commercial buildings, and now we have …
Super-Clever LED Fins Make Store’s Media Facade On Narrow High Street Visible To People Approaching On Foot October 3, 2024 by Super User This is a fantastically well-conceived, engineered and executed digital media facade on the front of a perfume company’s flagship store and HQ in Andorra. A set of vertical LED fins enable views from people walking toward the building, even though the pedestrian-only high street is very narrow. Barcelona-based creative technology studio Instronic did the job …
Giant 62-Foot Tall W Made From LED Greets Visitors To WWE’s New HQ October 2, 2024 by Super User The ability to create shapes that aren’t just flat rectangles has always been a big selling advantage of LED displays, and that advantage really gets pushed here with a truly giant 62-foot high letter W made from custom LED cabinets in the new Stamford, CT headquarters of World Wrestling Entertainment. The fully custom display is …
Mexican Sam’s Clubs Using Floor Projections To Promote Brands October 1, 2024 by Super User Cavernous retail warehouse stores like Costco and Sam’s Club don’t tend to have the best sightlines for using big digital displays because of the concrete floor to metal ceiling shelving units that sit above eye-level shelves, so one workaround is using projectors to put media on the floor. That’s what Walmart-owned Sam’s Club is doing …
