Microsoft Closing Doors On All Of Its Terrific, Digital Display-Filled Stores June 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes Say whatever you want about Microsoft products, but their retail stores have always been fantastic examples of high impact digital signage. The side walls in the stores are all digital and do everything from marketing to instructions. So I am saddened by news this morning that the tech giant has opted to shut the stores …
Navori Releases AI-Driven Access Control Solution For Retail, Public Spaces June 9, 2020 by Dave Haynes I could do almost nothing else but re-post PR about digital signage and pro AV companies releasing their take on a solution for problems brought on by COVID-19, but they’re all quite similar. So I’m not doing that – focusing on ones that have a different spin or come from a “major” player in the …
Digital Displays Fix The Hacks Retailers Are Using To Communicate With Shoppers June 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes Longtime digital signage solutions provider Freshwater Digital has a good little post up on its company blog, and Linkedin, about the emerging utilitarian aspect of digital signage displays in retail. I’ve been doing a lot of moderating on web video panels, or talking on them, and often mentioning how retailers have been resorting to rough-looking, …
Q-Better Release Free QR-based Menu Software For Restaurant Operators June 3, 2020 by Dave Haynes There was much rolling of eyes, for many years, when companies in this sector would bring up QR codes as an exciting part of the communication mix. At its silly height, there were highway billboard ads that had QR codes on them – 300 feet away from the people seeing them. But the pandemic, and …
Intuiface Launches Reference Designs For Key “New Normal” Interactions May 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes The French software firm Intuiface has released a pair of what it calls reference designs for common challenges facing retail, restaurant and facility managers as they manage access and interactions in the midst of this pandemic. The idea is to develop and document framework designs that make it relatively easy for third parties – like …
Dutch Mall Uses Motion-Sensing Software And Real Time AR On LEd Wall, To Drive Social Distancing Guidelines May 20, 2020 by Dave Haynes The new, Westfield-owned Mall of the Netherlands – which is positioned to be in easy reach of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and The Hague – is using a big direct view LED, camera sensors and some relatively simple AR to encourage social distancing among shoppers. The software scans and senses passing shoppers along a mall concourse, …
Crimson AV Launches Hybrid Thermal Sensor/Gel Dispenser/Display May 20, 2020 by Dave Haynes Here’s another variation on the idea of a hybrid display/sanitizer, the difference with this one being the addition of an IR body temperature reader for sensing fevers and dispensers for face masks and gloves. The station is from Crimson AV, the Chicago-based mounts and displays company. The dispenser holds a gallon of gel. That stuff …
Dutch McDonald’s Offers Glimpse Of Possible Future For Dining In QSRs May 19, 2020 by Dave Haynes Photo – REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw Drive-thru lanes have saved many QSR operators in North America who would otherwise have seen business slow to just take-out and delivery, with dining areas in most jurisdictions closed or greatly restricted. But there are lots of QSRs that don’t do drive-thru or never made it that much of …
BrightSign Debuts Contactless Capabilities For Interactive Screens, Menus May 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Silicon Valley-based media playback device firm BrightSign has announced new supporting software for its little purple boxes that enables them to digitally throw touchscreen controls and lookup information to smartphones. BrightLink is a software module that enable consumers who have smartphones to scan a QR code and get a URL that transfers control of …
Burger King Re-Purposing Screens Inside Lockdown Stores To Celebrate Workers May 12, 2020 by Dave Haynes QSR giant Burger King has found an interesting way to re-purpose self-service order screens that are not being used right now, because in-store dining is barred in most or maybe all jurisdictions. The company’s order-ahead smartphone app allows users to write thank you notes and props to staff, that then appear on the self-service screens …
