Jacksonville’s Airport Managing TSA Screening Communications Via 100-Foot Wide LED Ribbon February 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is interesting in at least a couple of ways … It’s about 100 feet of Nanolumens LED ribbon on a bulkhead wall over the entries to TSA security screening at Jacksonville, Florida’s airport, assigning and locating different lines – like TSA Pre Check – and running background content specific to that day. It’s interesting …
Tokyo’s Shinjuku District About To Get Even More Animated With Nightly Projection Mapping Shows February 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes The bustling Shinjuku business and entertainment district of Tokyo is about to host what is billed as the largest permanent projection mapping experience – nightly shows on a 48-storey office tower. Starting Feb. 25th, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government is hosting the free nightly projection mapping displays – calling it “Tokyo Night & Light.” The year-round …
New JFK T6 Taking Digital-First, Screen-Led Approach To Passenger Experience February 14, 2024 by Dave Haynes The travel retail trade publication TRBusiness has an interesting post up about the digital-first plan for the new Terminal 6 at JFK airport in the New York area – noting how information screens are fundamental to the travel experience in the new design. The $5B terminal will open its first phase in two years and …
Clever NYC CampaignCombines Full-Time Mural With Projection-Mapped Animations After Sunset February 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes Projection-mapping when done well can be quite awesome, but using that technology for advertising and special events has always been somewhat constrained by projection’s greatest adversary – natural light. So I was intrigued and impressed by an effort in New York that blends a colorful full-time mural for a brand in a high profile space …
Projection Used To Explain Port Wine Production On Giant Barrels February 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes I’ve always liked projection for digital signage but the technology has often had limited application because of the battle it faces with ambient light. But I found a really nice application for it yesterday at a port cave in Portugal. In Gaia, on the other side of the river from Porto, there are numerous port …
Dubai Mall Lights Up Massive 980 Sq. M. LED Wall February 6, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is touted as the biggest indoor LED screen on the planet, taking out what had been described as the biggest OLED video wall on the planet. It is, of course, in bling-loving, deep-pocketed Dubai, at the vast Dubai Mall. The LG OLED wall only went live in 2017, in front of the mall’s aquarium, …
UK University Testing Big Hologram-ish Displays For Remote Guest Lectures January 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
