Nexmosphere’s Sensors, Controllers And Toolkit Aimed At Making Interactive Retail Easy February 14, 2023 by Dave Haynes Way, way back in the day – in my dark period doing business development work for software companies – the company I was with did a fair amount of custom work that involved triggering content to screens using sensors. If someone came within a certain range of a screen, or lifted something that made a …
Accenture Ventures Makes Strategic Investment In Holographic Display Maker Looking Glass February 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes The huge professional service/consulting company Accenture has made what it describes as a strategic investment through its Accenture Ventures wing in the holographic displays developed and marketed by Brooklyn-based Looking Glass Factory. Accenture says tech like the Looking Glass displays – which have some depth and change what viewers see based on angle – “offers …
Big Oops: Windows Error On DOOH Screen At NYC World Trade-Fulton Concourse February 9, 2023 by Dave Haynes A reader passed along this visual reminder about the risks of using consumer operating systems on digital signage jobs. This is a big video wall in one of the walkways connecting the World Trade Center are in New York with transport hubs. The error message has to do with hard disk storage. It has been …
Vast 360-Degree Projection Set-Up Drives Ohio University’s Maker Space February 9, 2023 by Dave Haynes It seems like every case study and press release I’ve read lately that involved blended projectors was for an immersive attraction – like Illuminarium or Montreal’s Oasis Immersion. So it’s interesting to get a story about a US university using a series of blended projections as the core aspect of a new lab built to …
Hat Tip To rAVe For Knocking Out 1,700+ ISE Exhibitor Videos February 8, 2023 by Dave Haynes A tip of the hat to the team at rAVe Publications for running around madly last week shooting video demos all over Integrated Systems Europe, including 100s of stand-ups involving vendors in the digital signage ecosystem. North Carolina-based rAVe has been doing this sort of thing for many years, and it is a little mind-wobbling …
Why “Holoport” People To A Screen When There’s A Physical Back Door? February 8, 2023 by Dave Haynes There are always some specialty display manufacturers at pro AV trade shows – like last week’s Integrated Systems Europe – demo’ing some version of transparent LCDs with finished enclosures that allow for putting product inside – making the LCD screen an overlay that can do things like pricing and promotional messaging related to the product. …
Scoreboard-Sized LED Wall Greets Student Athlete Prospects At Univ. Of Florida February 7, 2023 by Dave Haynes US college athletics programs – particularly football and basketball – are highly, highly competitive, and a lot of effort and money goes into developing training and locker room facilities that make student athletes commit to attending and playing for a school. Bling is increasingly a big part of the recruitment process – with top college …
Video: Dave’s Daily No. 3 – Chatting at ISE 2023 About Visual Solutions February 4, 2023 by Dave Haynes Here’s the third edition of what my friends at invidis are calling Dave’s Daily – this one looking at visual solutions seen at ISE 2023. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers. More …
Full List Of Winners & Finalists: Global Digital Signage Awards 2023 February 3, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Global DIGITAL SIGNAGE AWARDS for 2023 were handed out last night in Barcelona, with the big winners projects at property developments and airport passenger experience systems. The awards were at the same venue, up a set of stairs, as last night’s Sixteen:Nine digital signage networking mixer during ISE 2023. Sixteen:Nine has been a media …
ISE 2023 Day Two Impressions – Seriously Packed Event February 2, 2023 by Dave Haynes When Integrated Systems Europe announced it was shifting locations from its longtime home of Amsterdam to Barcelona, there were questions from some quarters about the business viability of the giant pro AV trade show about its ability to attract the same kinds of vendor counts and crowds as it was seeing in the 2010s. The …
