Oldie But Goodie: A Look At The Transparent LED Displays That Madrid Store’s Five-Level Atrium August 14, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is a now eight year old project that lined the atrium of a five-level Primark store in Madrid with mesh LED and populated the displays with purpose-designed and sync’d creative. It’s at Primark’s Gran Via location in the Spanish city – an historic 1920s department store re-made as one of the larger outlets of …
LED Mainstreamed: New Food Court In Dublin’s Airport Has 31-Meter LED Ribbon August 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes Here’s yet more evidence of how LED is now a mainstream option for designed spaces that work in digital signage – a new food court area in Terminal 2 of Dublin’s airport. The Mezz is a street food-themed concept with five different options, as developed by SSP Group, a major operator of food and beverage …
Napa Winery Uses Projections To Visualize Data On Fermentation Room Dome August 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes Real-time data visualization as dashboards are increasingly common use-cases for digital signage technology in production environments but a wine producer in California’s Napa region is using it in a very interesting way – projecting the data coming from its fermentation tanks on the ceiling of the room where they’re operating. Six Christie laser projectors are …
NYC Armani Exchange Flagship Uses LED Ribbons As Part Of Visual Experience August 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes Ribbon LED displays are common in sports venues and specialized environments like stock trading rooms and sports books, but I don’t know if I have ever seen one set up in a high-end apparel store. The Armani Exchange flagship store in New York’s SoHo district has a 2.5mm fine pitch LED banner that runs just …
Rear Projection Set-Up Pretty Nicely Puts A Person In NYC On A Conference Panel In Atlanta August 9, 2023 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting variation of technology efforts to get a speaker or panelist at a business event, without asking the person to travel – a rear-projection set-up on a stage that reasonably nicely integrates with the stage and the other people on it. Emory University’s Goizueta Business School used a set-up from Toronto-based ARHT Media …
JD Sports Pairs AR Virtual Try-On Solution With Big Video Wall In Two US Stores August 4, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is an AR mirror set-up used in a couple of U.S. locations (New York Times Square and Chicago State Street) for the retailer JD Sports, which sells guess what. Virtual try-on mirrors have been around for ages, and have improved by leaps and bounds in terms of the way they work and look. This …
Cylindrical Shenzhen Telecom Building Half-Wrapped In LED To Create Billboard August 4, 2023 by Dave Haynes This in an interesting use of cladding and partially wrapping around a small, cylindrical commercial building in Shenzhen, China. It is on the Nanshan Telecom building in the Nanshan district of that tech-centric city near Hong Kong. The main half cylinder visible to the street is more than 1,200 sq. meters of Sansi 16mm pitch …
Japanese Railway Auto-Translates Customer Queries As Chats On Transparent Screens In Station August 3, 2023 by Dave Haynes A Japanese passenger railway has started testing a service that auto-translates conversations at customer information counters – enabling foreign travellers with little or no Japanese to get answers returned in their language on a transparent screen that sits between the railway staffer and the traveler. Seibu Railway is testing what it calls polyglot simultaneous translation …
Upgraded Munich Commuter Rail Lines To Get Some 15,000 Screens August 3, 2023 by Dave Haynes German language content partner invidis is reporting today how the commuter trains in its home city of Munich will be upgraded in roughly five years with scores of stretched LCD displays and two-by-two video walls. The new S-Bahn trains, made by Siemens, are scheduled to go into service with passengers from the end of 2028. …
Austrian Plastics Giant Puts Big LED Video Wall In Its Local Football Club Hospitality Suite August 2, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is the corporate suite at a football stadium for a big Austrian firm called Greiner, which is one of the biggest manufacturers of plastic and foam on the planet. The company’s head office is near Linz, a small city about halfway between Vienna and Munich. Its home football club is Lask, which has a …
