New Saudi Gov’t Back Giga Project Involves E-Sports Arena With Massive 3,600 Sq. Meter Chandelier-Like LED Screen December 21, 2023 by Dave Haynes Given the extraordinary cost and the need in much of the world to clear planning hurdles and local objects about light pollution and energy usage, it’s widely thought the next variation on the Las Vegas Sphere might rise up in a money-is-no-object place like Dubai or Saudi Arabia. And now there is word of a …
Interesting Cutaway View Of Sphere Interior … December 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes Came across this online – an interesting cutaway view of the Sphere in Vegas, showing the exoskeleton and how the seating and common areas are set up. There have been countless external photos, as well as shots of the U2 concert and the nature film, but not many of the common areas inside. There’s a …
NYC’s 5th Ave Snowflake Gets Big Digital Upgrade From i5LED December 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes Most of the LED display project news I see out of New York City involves either big outdoor displays in Times Square or big indoor video walls in flagship retail, but here’s a very different project supplied, in part, by an LED display firm – a giant Christmas snowflake suspended over Fifth Avenue. The Fifth …
KC’s Dimensional Innovations Helps Drive Visual Experience For Ted Lasso-Filled Thundergong Charity Concert December 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes This isn’t digital signage, but some great set design and supporting creative done by a company that is well known and very active in digital signage and creative technology jobs – Dimensional Innovations. If you’ve been on YouTube and come across videos of a charity concert involving some of the cast of Ted Lasso, that …
Office Tower Elevator’s Controls Tied To Digital Mirrors To Show Floor Location December 18, 2023 by Dave Haynes A UK company called iFaceMirror has been putting LCD-backed digital mirrors in the interiors of elevator (lift) cars for a bunch of years, with their purpose heavily focused on advertising and branding for the venue or the businesses in that office tower, hotel or shopping space. So I was intrigued by this video (below) that …
1,100 Custom LED Light Strips Drive Experiential Visuals At Bangalore’s Main Airport December 18, 2023 by Dave Haynes Wide LED walls over the entry to the big security screening areas of new or modernized airport terminals are almost becoming something of a standard – with great examples from Singapore to Newark, NJ – but I haven’t seen one like this variation in Bangalore, India. It involves almost 1,100 custom LED light strips, using …
Watch: 164 Smartphones Stacked Like Christmas Tree To Create Unique Video Wall December 14, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is a fun retail project in Chile that somehow or other sync’s up 164 Samsung Galaxy smartphones to deliver messages on a digital Christmas tree. The set-up uses Novisign’s CMS software and its “Screen Sync” to get all the phones mapped and capable of behaving like a very big and complicated video wall, except …
Black Rifle Coffee Starts Rolling Out CRI’s Digital Signage Solution Across Its Chain December 13, 2023 by Dave Haynes Creative Realities, Inc. has announced a deal that will see its digital signage solutions built in to the customer experience for locations of Black Rifle Coffee, a US coffee chain that has close ties with active-duty military members, veterans, and first responders. The solution is in place in a new-design store, and the intention is …
Showcase Cinemas Sees 20% Lift In Food And Bev Sales After 568 Screen Modernization December 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes Wide ribbons of digital menu displays isn’t an overly new feature in the cinema business, but what’s interesting with a rollout across the Showcase Cinemas U.S. estate is word that the screens generate a 20% lift in sales at moviehouse snack counters. One of the world’s oldest and most recognized global theatre chains out there, …
Huge Digital Facade Draws Eyes To Canadian Outerwear Brand Arc’teryx’s Toronto Flagship December 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is a very impressive digital facade for the Canadian outerwear brand Arc’teryx, which has a flagship store in Toronto’s high-end Yorkdale Mall. I’ve seen lots of digital facades popping up in retail as LED has, in tandem, become less costly and more durable. But I’ve not seen one done at this kind of scale …
