Shanghai Museum Uses Giant LED Wall To Add To City’s Iconic Riverfront Skyline October 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
St. Louis Police Upgrade Real Time Crime Center With Giant LED Control Room Video Wall September 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes It was not very long ago, at all, that the idea of LED taking over the control room display market from LCD video walls and projection cubes was thought to be an eventual thing, but not until resolutions improved and costs dropped. Well, both have happened, and we’re now seeing projects light up in command …
Projection-Mapping Drives Storytelling Inside Cavernous Niagara Falls Power Plant September 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes Anyone who has been to see Niagara Falls will know how powerful the Niagara River is as its waters spill over the escarpment and run out to Lake Ontario, but a percentage of that water is diverted above the falls into pipes that lead to giant turbines in downstream power generating stations. That’s been done …
Now There’s Buzz About Another CGI’d Store Facade … But This One COULD Be Done September 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes Oh geez … there’s another digital concept of a New York City retail store floating around social circles and being touted as real, when it’s just CGI. There’s been a huge amount of activity for a Zara store in SoHo that seemingly had an insane abstract digital store entry, prompting people to talk about it …
New Nike Flagship In Toronto’s Yorkdale Mall Uses Massive LED Feature Wall September 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a recently opened Nike store at Toronto’s lux-oriented Yorkdale mall, a cavernous two-level space that includes a very large LED feature wall backing a central stairway. The store is a partnership between Nike and the Israeli retail fashion chain Fox-Wizel Ltd, which already operates several sports and beauty stores in Canada. The store …
