Projects: 800 Sq Ft Curved Display At Fresno Casino January 29, 2015 by Dave Haynes Here’s a 38 foot wide by 21 high Nanolumens LED wall set on a curve at the Tachi Palace casino in the Fresno, California-area. It is touted as the largest curved video wall in North America, visible throughout the entire Casino of the Moon. I like the scale, and can only hope this is demo …
Projects: 4K Displays Create Virtual Balconies On Cruise Ship December 31, 2014 by Dave Haynes This is pretty wild. The cruise ship giant Royal Caribbean’s new Quantum of the Seas ship has installed 80-inch portrait-mode 4K displays in its interior staterooms (the ones that could never have windows anyway) to create virtual balconies. The displays get a streamed feed – I’m guessing via fiber – from a set of high-def RED …
Projects: Beverly Hills Porsche Dealer Gets Social In Showroom December 18, 2014 by Dave Haynes LA-based Enplug – which runs screens solutions built around social media – put together a program earlier this year for Beverly Hills Porsche, which was looking for a way to better engage with its customers on social media, from inside the showroom. They’d been using print, and not surprisingly finding it wasn’t working so hot. …
Projects: Wayfinding At Montreal’s World Trade Centre December 17, 2014 by Dave Haynes Long-time Montreal solutions provider iGotcha Media has installed a series of four 47-inch wayfinding kiosks in the World Trade Centre Montréal, for building operator Ivanhoé Cambridge. The centre is a combination of offices, lower level boutiques and cafes, and a hotel in downtown Montreal, across from the convention centre. iGotcha Media’s wayfinding kiosks include: floor plan maps, …
Projects: Welsh Library Projection-Mapped For Christmas December 17, 2014 by Dave Haynes This is an eye-popping 10-minute projection-mapping show put together by London’s Projection Studio as a Christmas celebration in a main square of Barry, in Wales. It was bankrolled by the local council. If you stick to the end you’ll see it was a prequel to the turning on of the town Christmas lights. Nicely done,and you …
Projects: PARCO’s Fukuoka Store Builds Screens Into Design December 17, 2014 by Dave Haynes PARCO is a Japanese department store group that is part retailer, part landlord – blending its own store space with that of independent retailers. The newest PARCO opened a few weeks ago in Fukuoka with 27 screens – providing shoppers with promotions, wayfinding and up to date information. That information is updated dynamically from external data sources via …
Projects: Ford Gets Touchy For Its Truth About Trucks December 17, 2014 by Dave Haynes This is a very nice deal … for someone. As many as 1,900 Ford dealers in the U.S. may deploy a new Truth About Trucks interactive touch product-information kiosk in their showrooms – a set-up designed to help move more Ford F-150 trucks. Much poking around has got me no closer to determining what vendors are …
Make Grand Visual’s Twitter-Powered Santa Dance December 16, 2014 by Dave Haynes The UK-based Digital OOH creative shop Grand Visual has a nice little Christmas promo going – a Twitter-powered dancing Santa. For this year’s seasonal festivities our technologists, Jon Jones and Mike Farrance, have come up with a fun little bit of tech to get you — and our team — in the Christmas mood. Meet …
Projects: Northern Lights Welcome Holt Renfrew Shoppers December 15, 2014 by Dave Haynes Your word for today is thud, as in the sound involved when the invoice for this lovely creative comes in from Montreal’s Moment Factory, which has again done the video wall outside the Toronto Yorkdale location of Canadian lux retailer Holt Renfrew. This is a place where you can drop $125 on what us regular …
Projects: Interactive Selfie Booth Welcomes, Informs College Freshmen December 12, 2014 by Dave Haynes This is a smart use of an interactive digital sign, combining the base functionality of an information station with a magnetic, playful piece that draws people to the device. Robert Morris University – a 5,000 student college in Pennsylvania – wanted a better way to communicate with and direct new students during orientation week …
