Yowza: Digital OOH Network’s Looking For $400K VP Sales February 26, 2012 by Super User Not sure who (though I can guess), but a NY headhunter has a job posting up for: Vice President, National Advertising Sales Music & Entertainment Channels, Digital Out of Home Networks One of the world’s most successful interactive and DoubleClick accountable digital networks broadcasting DOOH interactive entertainment is seeking a talented senior most advertising sales executive …
Virtual Flat Lady Now Chattering Away At The Bay February 23, 2012 by Super User The Globe and Mail, one of Canada’s national newspapers, has a piece up this week about retail marketing technology and the latest appearance of the talking flat lady – those virtual greeters that use projectors, Vikuiti film and actors who have no tendencies for talking with their hands. The concept was interesting four or so …
Rave Cinemas Starts Full Digital Signage Rollout With Real Digital Media February 14, 2012 by Super User Rave Cinemas, one of the biggest cinema chains by box office volume in the US, has moved from pilot to rollout of a full digital screen experience across its chain, using Real Digital Media as the digital signage technology platform. First deployed about a year ago at an 18-screen site in Hurst, Texas, Rave is …
Advanced Physics Institute Lights Up Crazy Hexagonal MicroTiles Wall February 13, 2012 by Super User One of the big value propositions around the display tiles like those done by Christie and Prysm is the whole idea of introducing new shapes to a video wall business that has long been about squares and rectangles. A new installation at a research institute named after Stephen Hawking certainly takes shape in a new …
Interactive: Starry Night Set In Motion February 11, 2012 by Super User [vimeo id=”36466564″ width=”600″ height=”350″] Oh wow. As seen on tech blog The Verge, Greek visual artist Petros Vrellis has taken one of the most famous paintings ever done and made it into an interactive, multi-touch project. Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” uses “80,000 ‘particles’ which flow around the 1920 x 1080 resolution environment at 30 frames …
Zoom In, And Again, And Again, And Again, And … February 8, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”4S1ER6Ya53A” width=”600″ height=”350″] This is pretty darn cool – an infinitely zooming interactive touch application developed by Toronto-based Content Interface. You pinch an image and zoom in to realize the pixels that define that image are actually images themselves, and when you zoom in more, the effect repeats. Endlessly. Every straight teenaged boy on …
Sightings: Citibank Time-Lapsed Video Wall At JFK February 7, 2012 by Super User [vimeo id=”32455924″ width=”600″ height=”350″] I can’t find a whole bunch of detail about the timing or status of this project, but it’s another example of effectively using the long runs of digital screens in a concourse at JFK’s American Airlines International Terminal in New York. This is the same run of screens, I think, that …
Corning Posts Day Of Glass Sequel Video February 6, 2012 by Super User [youtube id=”jZkHpNnXLB0″ width=”600″ height=”350″] There are a whole bunch of things in this video I would like to order today, please and thank you, staring with the solar panel roof, the digital privacy glass and the TV the size of my living room wall. However, I don’t personally control an old Soviet republic oil supply, …
Sightings: Retail Fixtures That Put Product In Context February 2, 2012 by Super User Me and Hellberg are on the road, and were out last night walking off too much dinner, when we wandered into a Sports Authority store. Pat pointed out the simple logic of attaching a screen to a fixture in an aisle that immediately showed why someone would want to buy the thing right below the …
rAVe at ISE: Top Five Pre-ISE Picks January 30, 2012 by Super User by Michael Moore (rAVe) In the RAI, stray nails and empty cardboard boxes crowd the aisle ways. If I were cliché I would say there’s “anticipation in the air,” but I like to consider myself more original. But really, I can’t wait. I’ve been posting press releases for the last three weeks so our readers …
