UK University Testing Big Hologram-ish Displays For Remote Guest Lectures January 24, 2024 by Super User I have my doubts about some of the retail and consumer being floated by the companies who make and market those big, shower stall-sized transparent LCD displays marketed as holographic, but I can definitely buy into this plan by a UK university to enable guest lectures by people unable to physically get to the school. …
Samsung, Chevron Testing AI-Driven Virtual Advisor For Buying Wine … At A C-Store??? January 22, 2024 by Super User Buying wine at a convenience store strikes me as the kind of thing semi-desperate, had-a-bad-day people do when regular options like grocery or liquor stores are unavailable, or not on the way. C-stores aren’t really the sort of place where the buying decisions are gratefully shaped by the recommendations of a sommelier. But that’s kinda …
Wildly Ambitious Plan Makes Saudi Stadium One Big Experiential Display January 19, 2024 by Super User We’ve seen ambitious sports and entertainment stadiums go up in recent years that made LED displays – like halos in Atlanta and LA – a big part of the design and venue experience, but here’s a somewhat mind-blowing plan for a new stadium in Saudi Arabia that sees much of the building inside and out …
Shoes And Bags Designer Kurt Geiger Makes 24 Sq. Meter LED Video Focal Point Of London Flagship January 18, 2024 by Super User A Linkedin post by UK solutions provider Pixel Inspiration reminded me of a forgotten photo I shot while walking along London’s busy Oxford Street on a visit last fall – a big and impressive video wall in the flagship for London-based shoe designer Kurt Geiger. It is a 24 square meter display at the service …
That Giant LED Statue Concept Finally Finds A First Home January 17, 2024 by Super User The Irish company that’s been touting, for a few years now, the idea of giant LED-driven humanoids that show images of famous people has finally found a first home – in a US shopping mall that is all about the bling. A couple of news outlets – including AV Interactive – are reporting that Dublin …
LED Mainstreamed: Chicago Cocktail Lounge Uses Fine Pitch Video Wall To Drive Experience January 10, 2024 by Super User New and different evidence of how LED is mainstreaming as a display and experiential option – a cocktail lounge in Chicago with a fine pitch LED video wall. It is for a bar called Valedor and involves four 55-inch LED cabinets tiled together – four wide and two high – to create the video wall, …
Apparel Retailer Uses Big LED Header As Product-Explainer In LA Flagship January 10, 2024 by Super User Big screens in fashion retail is nothing new, but I like how the body-positivity retailer Good American has worked a big LED header into the overall store design for a flagship store at the Westfield Century City Mall in LA. The store – opened last summer – has a custom 31.5-feet-wide LED ribbon that runs …
MSG Abandons Plans To Replicate The Vegas Sphere In London January 9, 2024 by Super User It appears any aspirations to replicate the Las Vegas Sphere in London, UK have been abandoned – with news that Madison Square Garden (MSG), the parent company of Sphere Entertainment, has withdrawn its planning application. The company has complained that the project had become a political football, and it was evidently not enjoying being kicked …
Add How Buildings Can Move To Your List of Planning Considerations For Big LED Displays January 9, 2024 by Mikell Senger GUEST POST: MIKELL SENGER, SNA DISPLAYS Both in terms of scale and beauty, the construction world continues to produce more and more amazing structures. As a mechanical engineer and senior project manager for SNA Displays, I’m very fortunate to be a part of projects with complex construction elements, and I’m constantly marveling at the work-product …
Ladies And Gentleman, Elvis Is Coming Back To The Building … Virtually, In London Later This Year January 4, 2024 by Super User Via AV Interactive … Ladies and Gentleman, Elvis may have left the building and planet, but he’s coming back … sorta. Hat Tip to AV Interactive for reporting that Elvis Presley is being virtually raised from the dead to perform as a hologram-ish projected entity at a new immersive attraction targeted to open later this …
