Projects: Westgate Las Vegas Switches On World’s Largest LED Video Wall January 22, 2016 by Super User What’s being touted as the world’s largest LED video wall has been plugged in and fired up inside the “Superbook” room at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, aka the old Las Vegas Hilton. The curved beast is 20 feet tall and 220 feet wide, and uses 1,640 2.5mm Christie Velvet LED tiles. The wall …
Projects: Twisting LED Sculpture Makes Waves In Houston Skyscraper January 7, 2016 by Super User Just stumbled across this now three-year-old project in a Houston, Texas office tower. The owners of 2 Houston Center wanted to spruce up the lobby of the 1970s skyscraper, so they commissioned Spanish multimedia artist Daniel Canogar to create what turned into “Waves” – a giant, suspended motion media sculpture made using more than 600 …
Projects: Digital Drives Happier Holiday Travel At Toronto’s Pearson Airport December 28, 2015 by Super User Traveling through airports during the Christmas holiday period can suck the joy out of just about anyone – between line-ups, delays, many more rookie travellers than normal and general mayhem. So the people at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport put together an on-premise Happier Holidays campaign that uses temporary digital displays, among several tools, to inject some fun. …
Projects: GE Aviation Opens Tech Experience Center In Dubai December 22, 2015 by Super User Here’s a look inside GE Aviation’s new Middle East Aviation Technology Center, which opened last month in the Dubai Airport Free Zone area. The facility – in one of those parts of Dubai where foreign companies are encouraged to set up shop – is there to support customers and help them optimize aviation operations in the region, …
Projects: East-Central China Mall Gets Massive Flying LED Ribbon December 20, 2015 by Super User A new retail project in Zhengzhou, in the east-central part of China, ups the game on the idea of filling the ceiling of a large area with an LED display. Called the Flying Ribbon, and located in the city’s HuiYi Times Square commercial complex, the project is 1,100 square metres of LED curtain that floats over …
Projects: LA DIY Florist Uses Digital Signage To Amplify Customer Experiences December 17, 2015 by Super User People who go into one of the two Los Angeles locations of Fleurish can design and build their own flower arrangements in what is billed as the first ever design-it-yourself flower studio. The stores get everything from individuals, to classes, and all the way to bachelorette parties (pre-cocktails, I assume). The stores use digital signage in a …
Projects: Montreal’s Arts District Adds More Projection-Mapped Buildings, Interactive Seesaws December 10, 2015 by Super User The arts quarter of the amazing city of Montreal has been a visual treat for a few years, owing to various temporary and permanent installations that use lighting and projection. But that gets amped up starting tonight, with a program that runs through the end of January. Called Impulse, the winter installation sees several buildings transformed …
Projects: Illinois Church Lights Up Simple, Logical, Nice Digital Signage Network December 9, 2015 by Super User Here’s a great example of how digital signage projects – no matter how modest – can succeed because the people or person behind it exercised solid thinking and common sense, and coupled that with some creative talent. I saw a Tweet about a church using Rise Vision’s open source content management platform and Raspberry Pi …
Projects: Vodafone Goes Big On Digital Signage Down Under December 9, 2015 by Super User Mobile network operator Vodafone’s Australian wing has gone big on digital signage in its retail stores, switching on a national network that will exceed more than 1,200 screens before the year is out. Vodafone Hutchison Australia’s business case for integrating digital into the store design was a reduction of its dependencies on printed in-store material, and …
Projects: Interactive Screen Puts Augmented Reality Layer In Holiday Postcards December 7, 2015 by Super User This is a nicely targeted and executed interactive application aimed at children and their parents shopping this season at the Indooroopilly Shopping Centre in Brisbane, Australia. Customers entering a Christmas interaction zone at the mall are greeted on a screen by various Christmas characters, such as Santa, a reindeer and a snowman. Sensors in the setting …
