Watch: Midtown NYC Office Block Gets Fantastic Digital Makeover In Common Spaces April 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a fantastic example of a corporate client buying entirely into the advice that creative should drive the decisions and designs when using technology as an architectural design feature. The big NYC commercial property developer Vornado Realty Trust engaged Montreal’s Moment Factory to rethink the lobby and common spaces experience at PENN 1, a …
Fine Pitch LED Takes Over From LCD, Rear-Projection Systems At Houston Automation Firm April 26, 2022 by Dave Haynes Fine pitch LED is now at a price-point and resolution that it is replacing set-ups like LCD video walls and projection cubes for such uses as corporate showrooms and presentation spaces – as is the case with an automation company in the Houston area. Emerson Automation Solutions engaged integrator AVI Systems to design and put …
82 LED Displays Sync’d For One Night Swarovski Branding Event At Saudi Retail Complex April 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes Wow. Just wow. This is a screen takeover done for the crystal glass brand Swarovski – a VERY ambitious one-night branding event at a retail complex. It is sync’d content across 82 screens of varying shapes and scales. The on-screen content was developed and delivered by the Belgian creative technology shop Bureau Beatrice, which recently …
Verizon Rolls Out 100s Of Touchscreen-Driven Pickup Lockers For Outside Its Stores April 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting look at why and how the US telecoms giant Verizon developed a largely frictionless pickup locker system for retail locations, first testing it out last year at a location in Omaha, Nebraska. That’s two posts from Nebraska today! Writes Grady Milhon, who runs digital at retail for Verizon, on Linkedin … During …
Stockholm “Space” Touted As World’s Largest Gaming Center Adds Experiential LED Canopy April 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes German content partners Invidis put up a post today about an interesting and vast new digital culture center that’s opened in central Stockholm, with some very big LED walls and a hell of a lot of smart monitors. Called Space, is a multi-level “physical meeting place” for people into all things digital, most notably esports. …
Nebraska Transport Company Using Digital Signage To Reach 1,000s Of Drivers When They’re At Facilities April 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a relevant working example of how a company uses digital signage to reach a workforce that is very much deskless – some 5,200 truck drivers on the road for a Nebraska transportation company. Crete Carrier, based in Lincoln, uses screens at 17 distribution locations and at the head office to get messaging out …
Mitsui Foundation Lights Up 10 Big LED Displays With Custom Content In NYC Lobby April 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a very nice, quite different take on using digital display to enliven a corporate office tower lobby. While a lot of projects these days are about one very large, wall-filling display as the showpiece, the Mitsui Foundation’s renovated lobby at 1251 Avenue of the Americas in New York uses 10 LED displays notched …
Giant 60-Foot Projections In Four Cities Help Promote Gaming-Inspired TV Series April 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes I sometimes feel like some annoying, overly-cynical guy at the back of a meeting room quietly muttering, “That’s not a hologram.” But on behalf of all the little companies and labs out there working on light field displays and other three-dimensional display tech, that really does meet the definition of displays that have volume and …
Australia Roadways Engineers Using Water Projections As Giant Emergency Stop Signs April 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes Where I live, there are regular tales of commercial truck drivers ignoring low clearance warnings and taking out the overhead barriers at toll booths on one of the harbor bridges. I suspect every locale of any size has similar problems, with truck drivers blithely ignoring how their rides are too tall for overpasses and tunnel …
Tech Giant Hewlett Packard Using Big LED To Immerse, Inspire At Houston HQ April 19, 2022 by Dave Haynes Tech giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has worked a series of large LED displays into its global headquarters in the Houston area, with a goal of providing immersive experiences, as well as artistic and inspirational pieces, and branded content. The displays are all from SNA Displays, are using Scala as the CMS, and were put …
