Big Interactive POS In Grocery Aisle Takes Place Of Merchandised Items, Because Goods Are Locked Up Elsewhere April 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes I was surprised, when stumbling across a retail trade publication story about in-store screens, that a touchscreen-embedded point of sale print piece was taking up such a big chunk of prime merchandising space on a grocery shelf … until I read on and learned it was all about reducing theft on high-value goods. The British …
LED Mainstreamed: Madrid Spin Class Studio Use One Big Video Wall To Drive Cycling Experience April 8, 2025 by Dave Haynes In yet another example of LED being mainstreamed, here’s a fitness facility with a spin bike room that has a very sizeable fine pitch LED video wall – showing a mildly immersive cycling route as video. It is at Abada Club in Madrid, described on Linkedin as “a space where innovation and design merge to …
Edgefactory Transforms IT Software Firm’s Event From Sales Kickoff To Immersive Experience April 3, 2025 by Dave Haynes While big LED video wall or projection backdrops are now common for business events – particularly those involving tech companies – Quest Software really went to town with its recent NXT 2025 sales kickoff meeting in Boston – hiring on event production company edgefactory to transform a traditional corporate gathering into an immersive, engaging experience. …
Soaring Stratosphere Tower In Vegas Becomes 1,100-Foot Temporary Billboard March 26, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Sphere consumes almost all the marketing buzz oxygen when it comes to doing monumental-scale media in Las Vegas, but a projection-mapping job during last fall’s F1 race week shows there are other giant canvases available. The soaring concrete tower of the Stratosphere resort, just past the north end of the Strip, was laser-mapped and …
Automaker Renault Uses LED-First Future Stores For Pop-Up London Showroom For EV March 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes I’m not through London that often, so it’s not clear to me if the hyper-ambitious, LED-first Future Stores pop-up experiential retail set-up on Oxford Street is steadily or only periodically booked. The Future Stores website suggests the Renault event on March 22-30 in the flashy high street store is the first since a Nordic fashion …
Video: Barcelona Hospital Uses Data Visualization On Video Wall To Show Real-Time Pulse Of Facility Operations March 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes Data visualization on big video walls can sometimes be a bit of a miss because the only people who are really going to understand the shape-shifting and swirling visuals are the people who designed the experience and the people who commissioned it, but here’s a case where context makes it work. It’s a video wall …
LED Mainstreamed: 850 Sq. Ft. Video Wall Dominates New Charlotte, NC “Sports Lounge” March 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes In another indicator that LED has most definitely been mainstreamed, a new sports hangout about five minutes outside of downtown Charlotte, NC has an 850 sq. ft. display behind and above the main bar that is described as the largest immersive LED screen on the US East Coast, outside of a stadium or casino. I’m …
Singapore Getting Its First Dedicated Immersive, Projection-Mapped Art Space Late This Year March 20, 2025 by Dave Haynes Singapore will, a little surprisingly, finally have a full-time immersive arts venue by the end of this year – with word of the planned launch of IMBA Theatre in an area called Gardens by the Bay. It’s a little surprising because of the sophistication of that city-state and an airport that has invested in a …
Health Tech Company Adopts Hollywood Sci-Fi Look For Display-Filled Welcome Center March 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes The very ambitious new headquarters of the Draper, Utah health tech firm LifeWave has a welcome center reminiscent of the set of a sci-fi movie and has what is described as the largest deployment to date of the super-skinny, architecture-focused Ventana LED display tiles. It also uses Sony OLEDs and LG Transparent OLEDs, as well …
LED Mainstreamed: A Squircle Of LED Displays Creates Animated Halo For Coastal Spain Shoe Store March 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes I don’t think it’s necessary to reinforce anymore that LED displays are now a mainstream pro AV option, as it is pretty much everywhere. But it is endlessly interesting to see how big ideas for this display tech get adopted for much less ambitious use-cases – like a halo display in a shopping mall shoe …
