Hyundai Projection-Maps Classic Miami Hotel For Car Promo December 15, 2011 by Super User [youtube id=”7hUbV8VNYEQ” width=”600″ height=”350″] The whole 3D projection mapping thing is starting to get commonplace, and some of the stuff I have seen lately on videos has been pretty much shrug-inducing. However, while there are projects where creative takes a backseat to technical execution, there are also some very good ones still popping up. Consider …
ScreenReach Testing Mobile Shop And Buy With PayPal December 13, 2011 by Super User [youtube id=”jsP0oDaYi9I” width=”600″ height=”350″] My friends at interactive mobile start-up ScreenReach have a very intriguing trial project underway with online payment giant PayPal, effectively bridging media on shop windows with a mobile app consumers can use to browse and buy product even when the stores are closed. As reported on The Next Web, “An interface …
DSA does digital signage, but not that DSA December 9, 2011 by Super User This is kinda funny … I was on Digital Signage Today looking at a story and noticed an ad embedded in the story, to: Get Creative with Digital Signage from DSA Hmmm. The DSA, aka Digital Screenmedia Association, is directly marketing a solution??? And they have a new logo! Well, no. Turns out this is …
NYC impressions, inc. pix December 9, 2011 by Super User Back at the Bait Shop and home office after three wet, tiring days in New York. Few things are more magical than seeing the city at Christmas time amidst heaving rains, umbrella-destroying wind gusts and people who walk four-abreast on crowded sidewalks, at about a three feet an hour pace. Oh well, Thursday was …
Christie posts video and case study on massive London Stock Exchange project December 5, 2011 by Super User [vimeo id=”30825185″ width=”600″ height=”350″] Christie Digital has developed and released a nice case study and video that shows us folks on the other side of the Atlantic what that massibe MicroTiles installatiuon at the London Stock Exchange looks like in action. It’s a bit of a drive, so I’ve no idea when I might see …
Everything old is new again dep’t: Crowd games in cinema December 3, 2011 by Super User MediaPost has a story up about how National CineMedia and the Audience Entertainment Group have launched an interactive gaming element to the pre-movie entertainment content and Digital OOH advertising package. Called AudienceGame, MediaPost reports that the movie audience controls the on-screen action by moving their arms back and forth in unison (or something close to it), …
Electrosonic projection-maps a hotel for trade show party November 29, 2011 by Super User You start to realize what you once thought was really exotic stuff is starting to go mainstream when you see it used for corporate parties. In this case, big AV integrator Electrosonic rolled 3D projection mapping of a hotel facade into the bag of tricks for its 10th annual party for clients and partners at the …
Missed it by THAT much November 23, 2011 by Super User Display Daily has an insightful piece out today about the iconic Christmas windows at Macy’s on 34th Street in New York, and an attempt at introducing glasses-free 3D into the displays. As Maxwell Smart would often say, the people who pulled it together apparently “missed it by THAT much.” Macy’s put a 132-inch autostereoscopic 3D …
Russian startup projecting interactive visuals on man-made fog November 23, 2011 by Super User This seems to be cool interactive display day around the armed compound. The latest is word of a Russian start-up that is doing smaller, interactive variations on the fog screen thing a Finnish company debuted a few years ago. This company, called Displair, projects images on a steady stream of cold fog to make visuals …
Intel-InWindow launch big-dollar interactive “Experience Stations” November 23, 2011 by Super User Intel appears to be taking its digital signage concept ideas off trade show floors and getting them into the wild, most notably though “Experience Stations” being run with New York-based Inwindow Outdoor. These stations are 70-inch multi-touch screens that also respond to gestures using Microsoft Kinect. They have built-in NFC and run Intel’s Audience Impression …
