Projects: North America’s 1st Transparent High-Rez LED Wall November 7, 2014 by Dave Haynes Vancouver integrator 10net has lit up what it’s touting as the first permanent install of China’s GWS Technology that’s a mash-up of LED curtains and glass. The install is in the head office of BlueShore Financial in North Vancouver. It uses a 5 mm pixel pitch LED array that instead of having a black block finish in …
Projects: World’s Biggest Hi-Rez LED Ceiling, And That’s Just The Start In Building November 3, 2014 by Dave Haynes A huge building in the southeast China city of Zhongshan has opened up with a massive focus on LED lighting. Called Star Alliance, the place is a LED lighting brand center and LED lighting effect experience showroom. The building has a huge LED canvas on the ceiling, on the top of lighting pods, and draping …
Projects: Boston’s SoWa District Gets Projection-Mapped For Illuminus October 30, 2014 by Dave Haynes A chunk of the hip, historic SoWa district of Boston was lit up last Saturday night in that city’s version of a Nuit Blanche festival, making heavy use of projection-mapping. Called Illuminus, the event was an opportunity for regional artists, designers, creative technologists, architects, performers and fabricators to push their creative chops to the limit using …
Projects: Pilot Confirms Screens Boost Sales At Outlet Retailer Last Call October 29, 2014 by Dave Haynes Here’s one of those still fairly rare instances of a retailer sharing some of the data from an in-store digital test. Fashion retailer Last Call, the outlet for Neiman Marcus, did a test with software vendor Scala at one of its stores to collect and track incoming sales impacts. The installed screen network involved three sets …
Projects: Xbox Mutants Run Amok On Streets Of Three Cities October 29, 2014 by Dave Haynes Here’s another riff on the idea of layering motion graphics into a visual of the nearby streetscape to create something of an augmented reality experience in transit shelters. This one, for a new Xbox game called Sunset Overdrive, is running San Francisco, London, and Melbourne as part of a worldwide launch. The game is set …
Projects: Whole Foods Turns On Tech In New Atlanta-Area Flagship October 28, 2014 by Dave Haynes Whole Foods opened a new flagship store a couple of weeks ago in Alpharetta, Georgia (suburban Atlanta) that includes a couple of interactive digital elements new to the grocer, developed by Portland’s Second Story agency. One is what looks to be a simply presented but clever Instagram wall showing images based on images from local …
Projects: Breeze Center Mall In Taipei October 27, 2014 by Dave Haynes One of the things that I found out about tech companies in Taiwan, while there, is that they can get a lot more involved in projects than they might in other parts of the world. VIA Technologies, much more known for CPUs and boards and small PCs, worked with the owners of a fashion district …
Projects: AB Citadele Bankas in Lithuania October 27, 2014 by Dave Haynes AB Citadele bankas in Lithuania has started deploying a network in its branches, using six displays inside and another 2 high-bright panels in street-facing windows. The set-up uses Samsung’s Smart Signage pages and signagelive as the CMS, with the project pulled together and deployed by a firm called Hansab. The screens on walls and in windows …
Projects: Vaughan Mills Mall Plugs In Digital Lounge October 24, 2014 by Dave Haynes The giant Vaughan Mills shopping mall on the northern fringes of metro Toronto got bigger this week, with a store and footprint expansion that included a new digital lounge area put together by Cineplex Digital Solutions. The lounge area is intended as a branded, experiential rest area with soft seating, Wi-Fi and a cluster of …
Projects: 4K Digital Posters On Toronto Streets October 20, 2014 by Dave Haynes Astral Out-of-Home, which is owned by Canadian communications giant Bell Media, is putting 40 new digital transit shelters on downtown Toronto streets this fall – all equipped with 84-inch LCD screens capable of 4K HD. The shelters and enclosures were designed by Kramer Design Associates, and will be installed in strategic locations throughout downtown Toronto. …
