Projects: Interactive Gesture Wall For Sick Kids September 19, 2014 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Projects: Projected Messi Runs The Streets Of Barcelona August 21, 2014 by Dave Haynes I’ve seen references to this as projection mapping, but that implies the visuals are being precisely tuned to the the dimensions and contours of a structure. That’s not in play here, but it is nonetheless very clever and effective. To celebrate the return of Argentine football superstar Lionel Messi to FC Barcelona for the new …
Projects: Interactive At SF 49ers’ New Stadium August 21, 2014 by Dave Haynes The NFL’s San Francisco 49ers have moved into the new Levi’s Stadium, which has all the expensive bells and whistles that seem to be inherent in monster sports facilities these days. Among the attractions in this $1.2 billion facility is a museum about the storied franchise, and an attached education center that has a set of …
Projects: Tim Hortons Concept Store Includes Tabletop Interactive August 15, 2014 by Dave Haynes Here’s a video from a trade show last month in which the iconic Canadian coffee chain – which sells 8 of every 10 cups of coffee up here – showed what a store “could” look like one day. Too much white plastic for me, but I did like the stab at tabletop interactive ordering stations. …
Projects: Nike’s House Of Mamba Lights Up Shanghai Hoops August 15, 2014 by Dave Haynes When I first saw this video and read the descriptions, I couldn’t figure out how or why it was being described as an LED floor – because it looks like the basketball court was projection mapped. But after watching it a few times, I realized, no, it’s a very big tiled HD-LED floor. You can …
