Backdrop For New Surf Musical In Vegas One BIG Video Wall June 19, 2012 by Super User I’m sure this has been done to some degree before, but video walls on a theatrical set make a bunch of sense now that the costs have dropped and the seams nartrowed to a point that they’re somewhat irrelevant. When Sharp’s senior VP Mike Marusic spoke at the DisplaySearch conference in Las Vegas last week, he mentioned …
Video: Visix Does Preview of New Pots And Pans For InfoComm June 7, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”_Qpl2gLRcWY” width=”600″ height=”350″] The Atlanta-area software company Visix did a nice video ahead of InfoComm last year and they’ve banged out another one this year. I liked the one last year more because it was a little more personal, following President Sean Matthews around the offices to demo things. But the 2012 version is …
Buckingham Palace Gets Projection Mapped, As Madness Plays On Roof June 5, 2012 by Super User The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations in London had a big moment last night with a concert and some great projection mapping work on Buckingham Palace – probably among the last buildings you might expect to get that treatment. I just caught a snippet on the news and it showed Madness, the old ska/pop band from …
Belgian Travel Agency Makes The World Its Video Wall May 30, 2012 by Super User Hat tip to OOH-TV for spotting this the other day … Video walls seem to be an area of genuine growth in this sector, owing a lot to thinning seams and also to lowered costs. But apart from some interesting stuff done at trade shows, how often have you seen a deployed video wall (setting MicroTiles …
Talking Flat Lady Now Being Ignored By Travelers At Major NYC Airports May 23, 2012 by Super User A hat tip to the sales guys who managed to get the New York Port Authority to drop $180K on those eternally stupid Talking Flat Lady things for use at the city’s three main airports. ABC News says the devices were unveiled this week at Newark Liberty and La Guardia airports, and JFK will also have the …
Sightings: U of T Adds MicroTiles Wall At Conference Centre May 15, 2012 by Super User I like stuff that looks built in and not bolted on, so a new video wall that just turned at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs has some appeal. The front wall of the Vivian and David Campbell conference facility at the U of T now has a 6 by 6 MicroTiles …
Caesar’s Palace Gets Projection-Mapped (video) May 7, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”vQ8N-J9JADg” width=”600″ height=”350″] 3D Projection-mapping seems to really be taking off as a medium. I used to see odd video here and there, but now I am seeing releases and videos regularly. DWP Live and Monster Media did one on part of the facade of Caesar’s Palace in Lost Wages recently – tied in …
Telus Opens Digital-Heavy NextGen Store In Montreal (w/video) May 7, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”aeHTxp6_a0I” width=”600″ height=”350″] Here’s a nice example of blended interactive and ambient digital, using display monitors and projection, worked fully into the design of a new Telus concept store in suburban Montreal. Telus is a top 3 wireless carrier, based in Vancouver. The company’s first “Next Generation” at Carrefour Laval was designed “to bring the …
Sightings: NHL Team Floods Ice With Digital Projections April 19, 2012 by Super User The National Hockey League playoffs are in full flight and the boys are beating the living hell out of each other, seemingly even more so than normal. Canada’s big hope for bringing the Stanley Cup trophy back to the cradle of hockey is the team from Vancouver, though there is a 50:50 chance the team …
Sightings: Office Lobby Network In UK Re-brands April 18, 2012 by Super User I got into the still strange world of digital signage and digital OOH almost exactly 13 years ago, finding myself wearing a hard hat and riding on top of an elevator up a skyscraper in Calgary. I was putting screens in elevators, and part of the deal was figuring out how to get the signal …
