50-Foot Fine Pitch Video Wall Livestreams Symphony Concerts At NYC’s Lincoln Center December 12, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Lincoln Center in New York City, home to the New York Philharmonic, is using a 50-foot-wide fine pitch LED display as the key feature of its new “living room” area in the venue’s lobby. Located at the southeast corner of David Geffen Hall, part of the venue’s Welcome Center is the Karen and Richard …
A Giant Immersive Cylindrical LED Video Wall Lights Up At Moroccan University December 9, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a vast, custom-curved LED video wall in a main auditorium at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (known as UM6P), located near Marrakech, Morocco – billed as the largest immersive video wall in North Africa. It measures 288 feet wide by nine feet high, and has a radius of 313.46 degrees. The display uses Samsung …
Famed Man City Football Club Adding AI Crowd Intelligence Tech To Boost Gameday Experiences December 6, 2022 by Dave Haynes A technology partnership with Cisco appears to be paying off for Detroit-based computer vision firm WaitTime, which will see its real-time crowd intelligence platform installed and activated at one of the higher profile venues in global football: Etihad Stadium, home of the Premier League club Manchester City. The agreement to use the WaitTime technology, says …
New K-Pop Fan Mecca In Seoul Has Predictably Manic AV, Including Transparent OLED Floor December 5, 2022 by Dave Haynes It stands to reason that a store in central Seoul that’s focused on K-Pop groups and their fans was going to be more manic than minimalist, so there are all kinds of screens at the flagship store of Kwangya. The store was opened by SM Entertainment, which manages and promotes several big K-Pop acts, both …
48-Foot Wide Fine Pitch LED Wall Tracks Oil And Gas Ops In Kazakhstan December 5, 2022 by Dave Haynes When fine pitch LED video walls first started being marketed by pro AV companies, control room displays were touted as an obvious application – with the qualifiers that the pitches probably had to tighten and costs have to lower significantly before there were going to be many buyers. Both those issues have been resolved, with …
LED Mainstreamed: Lux Hollywood Apartment Block’s Unique 61-foot-wide LED Wall Greets Tenants, Visitors November 29, 2022 by Dave Haynes LED video walls have been talked up for the last three or four years as a new tool to attract and retain tenants in commercial office towers, by using a big digital canvas and (ideally) custom creative to drive experience and reinforce a brand. Now, as costs have come down and awareness has gone up, …
The Largest MicroLED Display In Latin America Lights Up, But It Probably Doesn’t Look Like What’s In The PR November 29, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is either very cheeky or just lazy – press about a big LED video wall installation that probably isn’t as big as the supplied photos from Samsung suggest. I came across news that a shopping mall in Bogota, Colombia had lit up what is billed as the largest Micro LED screen in Latin America, …
Massive New Saudi “Aerotropolis” Will Likely Be Using A Lot Of Digital Signage, But Not For A Few Years November 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes If your digital signage company is comfortable chasing opportunities that could take years to close, and probably involve a lot of paperwork and different kinds of negotiations, a massive new airport in the money-is-no-real-barrier land of Saudi Arabia may intrigue you. The Saudi government today announced plans for what will be called King Salman International …
Barcelona Digital Exhibit Uses Real-Time Data To Visualize City’s Elements And Surroundings November 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes I really like visualized data installations – not only because of creative output but the way they allow big video wall installations to always look different, based on incoming data. But what I’ve not liked, at times, is how it’s not often clear why the visuals are shifting and transforming, based on the data inputs. …
Global Digital Signage Awards Release 2023 Shortlist; Mixer Targeted Ahead Of ISE Week Dinner November 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes There are 39 companies shortlisted as finalists for the global Digital Signage Awards 2023, which will be announced (fingers crossed, tired of you COVID) during ISE week in February in Barcelona, Spain. Here’s a list of the companies on that list – a notable aspect being how there is a wide variety of countries represented …
