Projects: The Gorgeous Linq LED Marquee and Vortex On LV Strip October 2, 2014 by Super User I forget the name of the grubby hotel(s) that used to be beside the Flamingo on the LV strip, but it’s been replaced by a project called The Linq. I like the little commercial laneway that takes you back to the giant ferris wheel, but I really like the design and quality of the LED …
Projects: Interactive Ad Pods In Bangalore September 26, 2014 by Super User I have my doubts about Digital OOH executions that require gesture interaction, or what I fondly call Stupid People Tricks. There’s a dynamic at play that limits how many people want to try something that might embarrass them. There’s also the simple question of whether gesture is there for the sake of novelty versus it …
Projects: StubHub Center Goes Digital Display September 23, 2014 by Super User Here’s a nicely-done video case study (I’ll say it again, video in a visual business is a no-brainer) about the use of digital displays around the concessions at the StubHub Center in greater LA, which is home to the LA Galaxy MLS team, as well as high-level tennis and track cycling. The facility is using …
Projects: Glenfiddich’s Interactive Malt Whisky Bar September 22, 2014 by Super User The Scottish distiller Glenfiddich extended the experience of a whisky tasting and you of its Speyside plant by setting up a tasting bar inside a century-old library in Bangkok, Thailand. The feature piece is the bar itself, a MultiTaction display from Finland’s MultiTouch. Choose a particular dram of whisky, say a 15-year-old, and put the …
Projects: Interactive Gesture Wall For Sick Kids September 19, 2014 by Super User The Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware has turned on an interactive “Discovery Zone” video wall that works of Kinect2 gesture technology and shows on 45 NEC 46-inch displays. The 50-foot wide by 9-foot tall wall is located in a new atrium area of the hospital. It’s designed to allow up to 30 kids, …
Projects: KLM’s Trans-Ocean High Five Machine September 4, 2014 by Super User Here’s a nice, obviously ruggedized-like-crazy interactive screen project for KLM. Big daylight-readable touchscreens are installed in public plazas in Amsterdam and New York. There’s a live cam feed and audio and the engagement piece has strangers on two continents trying to sync a virtual high five to win freebie airline tickets. [embedplusvideo height=”388″ width=”690″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1unCU4Y” …
Projects: Horizon Video Wall At Eurostar St Pancras, London September 3, 2014 by Super User The Eurostar ticketing/checkin kiosk area at London’s St. Pancras rail station now has a Mega HD resolution video wall – running a dozen tiled Samsungs, to create a 1080 x 23040 resolution horizon wall. The wall runs on Signagelive, and as the video points out, the software platform is barely breaking a sweat managing a …
Projects: Aopen’s Gen2 Retail Evolution Lab In Melbourne August 28, 2014 by Super User The down-under wing of AOPEN has opened the latest in a string of showcase labs, this new one a multi-million dollar job in Melbourne. Built to demonstrate future applications for shopping and retail technology, the lab shows everything from transparent displays and digital labels to virtual touchscreens and waiter-less restaurants. This is the first Retail …
Projects: Back To School LED Towers At NYC UNIQLO August 27, 2014 by Super User UNIQLO’s NYC 34th St. flagship store is a place I often reference as a great example of retail digital signage – not because of big Wow, money didn’t matter. screens everywhere stuff. I like it because the signage is built-in and ever-present, but understated. The Japanese apparel retailer added some additional screens for the big money …
Projects: Virtual Paparazzi At The Movie House August 27, 2014 by Super User The Cineplex Digital Solutions team turned on experiential video walls in three of the parent company’s Toronto-area movieplexes this week, creating something of a virtual paparazzi experience for people heading in to see the latest blockbuster. The walls have three components – two very large LCDs with touch overlays on either side of a rectangular …
