Video Wall-Filled Bus “War Room” Sitting Unused In New York: Report October 18, 2021 by Super User Photo: NY Post The public transport authority for the city of New York opened a flashy, video wall-driven command and control center in Brooklyn a a couple of years ago, but those big screens have few or no viewers because the bus dispatch “war room” is already falling apart, the New York Post is reporting. …
Bowling Lanes Go Experiential With Projection-Mapped Lanes And Real-Time Ball Tracking October 15, 2021 by Super User This is not digital signage, but the tech applied and the underlying software applications are very similar. A company based in Orlando has started delivering a product and service called Unreal Bowling, which uses projection mapping to light up the lanes in bowling alleys with interactive content experiences and breathe new life into a decades-old …
QSR Chain Uses Transparent LCDs On Grab’n’Go Lockers To Guide Order Pickups October 14, 2021 by Super User Transparent LCD displays have been around for a decade or more, but aside from those screens in grocery chiller doors, I’ve not seen widespread adoption or many use-cases that looked all that good or effective. But here’s one … This is a flagship location in Austria of True Chicken, a QSR chain that specializes in …
Toronto Office Tower Uses Cascade Of LED Windows To Transform Otherwise Stark Lobby October 8, 2021 by Super User This is actually a couple of years old, but just came across a case study about a really nice lobby LED installation in Toronto. My first reaction to a video wall at the Globe and Mail Centre was, “I thought newspapers were running on financial fumes?” But digging into the case study, it appears Canada’s …
Shanghai Museum Uses Giant LED Wall To Add To City’s Iconic Riverfront Skyline October 6, 2021 by Super User A new museum that’s opened along Shanghai’s famed riverfront features a huge LED video wall that is easily seen by looking across Huangpu River from the Bund at the ultra-modern skyline. In a press release I would politely call confusing as hell, Chinese LED manufacturer LianTronics relates the story behind “Shanghai’s Largest Outdoor Small-pitch LED …
New Disney Epcot Restaurant Uses LED Video Walls To Create Out-Of-This-World Dining Experience October 1, 2021 by Super User Via CollectSpace There are a few bars and restaurants that have used video walls and displays designed into the decor to create the sense of being somewhere else, like on a train with the countryside digitally whizzing past. But the Disney people have really stepped up that idea with a new immersive restaurant that puts …
LaGuardia Turns The Tap On For Giant Projected Water Curtain Show In Reno’d Terminal B September 27, 2021 by Super User I’m not sure I’d reference this water fountain projection thingie at the renovated (thank God!) NY LaGuardia Airport as a digital signage job, but it kinda sorta is, I suppose. The Water Feature in the hugely improved (by the looks of it) Terminal B is like a giant, computer-controlled rainfall shower in the terminal that …
Samsung’s Full Meal Digital Signage Deal Going Into Freedom Mobile Stores In Canada September 24, 2021 by Super User The retail locations for the Canadian wireless retailer Freedom Mobile have started a technology upgrade in some 80 stores in B.C., Alberta and Ontario to a digital signage feature set heavily driven by Samsung’s solutions – LED and LCD, but also its CMS software. The retailer, part of the Shaw Communications group, has a new …
Time’s Running Out – Get Your Entries In For The 2022 Global Digital Signage Awards! September 21, 2021 by Super User A last reminder that vendors, service providers and end-users like network operators and agencies have a little more than a week left to pull together submissions for the 2022 edition of the global Digital Signage Awards, which are backed, in part, by Sixteen:Nine. As I have noted a number of times, a little bit of …
Giant LED Board For Times Square Includes Doors That Swing Open And Shut (With Video) September 16, 2021 by Super User The TSX Broadway multi-use development now under construction in NYC’s Times Square district has, to no one’s surprise, a big LED display component on a corner that also wraps around a permanent outdoor stage for live performances. So if you already think Times Square is the world capital of sensory overload, just wait ’til you …
