Three Giant LED Heads Drive “The Conversation” On Boston-Area Building October 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes This an interesting new community art project in the Somerville area of metro Boston that uses an array of LED light sticks to create three giant heads on the 90-degree corner of a building there. The six-storey tall, head-shaped LED art spectacular is called The Conversation and it formally went live this weekend at a …
New Midtown NYC Skyscraper’s Top Floors Have Much More Than Just A Great View; Features Immersive, Experiential Observatory October 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes A new tourist ands event destination opened way up high in New York on Thursday – what’s described as the world’s most immersive observatory experience. The ribbon was cut to open SUMMIT One Vanderbilt, a multi-level space put together 1,063 feet above Madison Avenue in midtown Manhattan. The features include immersive art experiences supported, in …
More Evidence LED Video Walls Are Mainstreamed: A Fish Counter At A Supermarket Has Vast Video Wall October 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes Via Invidis It really was just a few years ago when fine pitch indoor LED walls started being marketed by manufacturers, with buyers expressing a lot of excitement … until they learned how much walls like that would cost. Fast-forward to now – in a hyper-competitive marketplace with an almost countless number of manufacturers around …
New Seattle Arena Has 224 Distinct Daktronics Displays; Touted As Most LED-Filled Venue In Sports October 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes The new sports and entertainment venue in Seattle – Climate Pledge Arena – opens tomorrow with 224 distinct LED displays around the building – 28,175 square feet of digital signage totaling more than 145 million pixels of display. The arena is the home of the new pro hockey franchise – the Seattle Kraken – but …
Edmonton Library System Blends LED And LCD For Big Wall In Flagship Branch October 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes I am highly skeptical of the assertion that this is the “biggest digital wall in North America” – unless there are some qualifiers in there – but this installation in a public library in Edmonton, Alberta is nonetheless impressive. The Edmonton Public Library’s flagship Stanley A. Milner Library had a recent re-design that included a …
LED Mesh Displays In Windows Turn Iconic Madrid Bank Building Into Media Facade October 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a flagship Caixabank branch in Madrid, in Plaza Colón, that uses much of the facade of a Norman Foster-designed building as a screen. The digital aspect used see-through mesh LED displays in the windows, and there is a LOT of full-wall LED inside the branch, all running custom experiential content that does not …
Video Wall-Filled Bus “War Room” Sitting Unused In New York: Report October 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
