Lowes Strips Down To One Security Camera Platform; Multi-tasks It To Also Do In-Store Audience Analytics May 7, 2024 by Dave Haynes Security camera deployments in retail don’t get a lot of attention here, but a post in the publication Chain Store Age got my interest because of the way DIY giant Lowes is multi-tasking its newly upgraded and harmonized network of in-store cameras – including using them for in-store analytics. Lowes already had security cameras all …
7-Eleven Japan Rolling Computer Vision-Informed Retail Media Network Across 500 Stores May 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Japanese wing of convenience store giant 7-Eleven is rolling out what looks and sounds like a retail media network in 500 locations around that country, placing a big emphasis on in-store analytics by using a Sony computer vision platform. The retail giant is using the edge AI-sensing platform AITRIOS developed and supported by Sony …
Chicago 360 Goes Heavy With Digital Display In Update To 94th Floor Entry Experience May 1, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Chicago 360 attraction high up in one of Chicago’s tallest skyscrapers has opened a new immersive entry kicks off the visitor experience, using a lot of digital done in interesting and offbeat ways. The 5,000 sq. ft, gives visitors a way to explore the history of the city, its iconic architecture and distinctive neighborhoods, …
Touring Experiential Digital Shrine To Footballing Deity Lionel Messi Opens In Miami April 29, 2024 by Dave Haynes Photos – Bruno Aïello-Destombes/Moment Factory An immersive attractions company that had previously been touring projection-mapped shows featuring painting masters like Van Gogh and Monet has now turned its attention to a very modern master, with very different skills – footballing’s biggest star, Lionel Messi. The Messi Experience opened last week in Miami – a nine-room, …
Flexible LEDs Create Giant Digital “Wisdom Tree” April 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Shenzhen LED manufacturer Ocolour seems to specialize in somewhat unconventional products – both in shape and where they go. I see lots of interesting stuff from them posted on Linkedin, but I don’t tend to write about much of it because the descriptions often don’t do much more than say something is round, or …
Huge Digital Mirror Adds Experience In Sevilla Shopping Mall April 23, 2024 by Dave Haynes This has been operating for a while, but I just stumbled across it this morning … It’s about the biggest digital mirror I have seen to date, in a shopping mall in Sevilla, Spain. Most of the displays I have seen that have a digital layer behind the glass have been in dressing rooms and …
LED Mainstreamed: A Retail POP Fixture On A Pallet, With A Display On Its Front Face April 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes I have seen merchandising tables in big box environments like Best Buy and even Costco that have LED displays below the counter, so to speak, to draw attention and market product – but in another sign of this stuff being mainstreamed, it’s now being used for temporary POP displays on pallets that get plopped in …
Paris Mall Refreshes 250 Sq. Meters Of LED For DOOH-Focused “New Digital Dream” April 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes The operators of one of the larger shopping malls in Europe and its OOH media partner pushed a big red symbolic button last week to officially turn on 250 sq. meters of new LED display in its central courtyard, under the name New Digital Dream. The display set-up includes a big feature screen intended to …
Digital Creative Collective Universal Everything Ding Months-Long Exhibit In Melbourne April 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes Another creative studio well known for generating visuals for big screens has got into the exhibition game – with the UK-based art and design collective Universal Everything putting on a special months-long event at the ACMI (formerly Australian Centre for the Moving Image) in Melbourne. The ticketed show is called Beings and will run from …
Light Festival In Emirate Includes Projection Mapping A Mountain April 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes All kinds of big man-made structures have been used as the canvas for projection mapping shows – from grain terminals to mosques to the Empire State Building. But here’s a very different, and challenging, projection surface – a mountain. German language content partner invidis has a post up on its site about a light festival …
