Hong Kong’s Airport Adds Three New Creative-First Video Walls To Revitalized Terminal One July 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes The bustling, to put it mildly, Hong Kong International Airport introduced three new multimedia display walls in Terminal 1 at the start of this month, commissioning Montreal creative technology shop Moment Factory to develop content that celebrates the spirit of that amazing city. Each installation in the revitalized terminal is “strategically positioned to enhance the …
Retired Footballer John Terry Puts A 146″ Samsung MicroLED In His Man Cave July 5, 2022 by Dave Haynes
Newish Vegas Strip Attraction Uses Big Projections, Digital Signage To Drive FlyOver Experience July 5, 2022 by Dave Haynes A new theme park-style attraction on the Las Vegas Strip makes heavy use of large format projection to drive the experience in pre-show areas and on a big theatre-style, curved screen. FlyOver Las Vegas opened last fall – taking ticket-buyers on a simulated aerial journey in front of a screen, their legs dangling from suspended …
Suburban Seoul Bakery Using 38 Transparent OLEDs To Drive Unique In-Store Experience July 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes I wrote last month about a puzzling, at least to me, deployment of transparent OLED displays in a display window of a bakery/restaurant in Korea. Now there’s more detail available, with word that the store in suburban Seoul has 38 transparent OLED displays around its premises. The bakery in Pangyo is a flagship location of …
Here Are Two More Jobs Showing How LED Video Walls Are Now Mainstream Tech June 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes I have been writing for the last couple of years about how direct view LED is now a mainstream technology that is no longer just going into high-profile, big-budget projects, and a couple of new installations in this morning’s inbox really drive that home. A multimedia room gateway in a local library, and a giant …
Real-Time On-Ice Projection Mapping Shows Live NHL Finals Game Action Two Time Zones Away June 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes Projection mapping on pro hockey ice surfaces has been around for many years, but it has always been about the pre-game experience – amping up fans with visuals, music and, in the case of the Las Vegas NHL franchise, live actors. This is a very different application of the same projection systems – using embedded …
Austrian Firm Uses Interactive Digital To Update Staffers On Factory Floor June 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes A few years back I did a consulting gig for a big auto manufacturer, and one of the first things I wanted to do was see the production floor. First, because it’s almost always interesting to see things being made by people and machines, but also to see the workplace dynamics and communications needs. One …
Miami Developer Markets To-Be-Built Penthouse’s View With 67 Feet Of Virtual Windows June 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to Rene Lopez of Vanguard LED, who in reading about that LED gateway for a Miami residential tower made me aware of what another developer did to market a penthouse residence at the Miami Waldorf Astoria. Back in March 2021, a mock-up penthouse suite (with a mind-wobbling price tag of just $74 million) …
Miami High-Rise Developer Makes Big Visual Statement With LED Gateway To Sales Center June 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes I have seen big LED walls in commercial and residential real estate presentation centers, but this is the first time (I think) I’ve seen a video wall used as the outside entryway for a property developer’s sales center. It is for developer Property Markets Group (PMG) – some 500 square feet of outdoor-rated LED, using …
1M Daily Commuters Take A Color Bath At Tokyo’s Hyper-Busy Shinjuku Station June 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes Just stumbled on this 2021 project from Montreal’s Moment Factory – a grand-scale synchronized multimedia experience in the east-west passageway of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station, the world’s busiest transit hub. Called The Colour Bath, the project combines video displays with audio and sync’d lighting for content that changes throughout the station’s 24/7 days. Transforming the tunnel into …