Some Perspective, And Explanations, On Forced Perspective 3D LED Illusions July 12, 2022 by Jake Berg GUEST POST: JAKE BERG, RENDER IMPACT It’s next to impossible to go anywhere these days without coming across an LED display. Once reserved for places like Times Square, casinos and sports stadiums, you can now find video walls in hospitals, banks, hotels, restaurants – the list goes on and on. Simultaneously, content creators are using …
DSF Plans Aug. 4th Meet And Mingle In Minneapolis July 12, 2022 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation is getting back to its pre-COVID rhythm and routine of pairing scheduled in-person board meetings with evening mixers in different cities – with a new event set for a few weeks from now in Minneapolis, which is awesome in the summer and not so much in January. The August 4th DSF Meet …
Finnish Interactive Display Firm MultiTaction Bankrupt, Prompting Re-Org Move In US, Bundled Solutions From Competitors July 11, 2022 by Super User The Finnish firm MultiTaction, known for slick multitouch display hardware and software, has gone under, compelling an evidently separate US wing of the company to says it will buy the assets and do a re-organization. Multitaction Americas Inc. has signed a memorandum of understanding to acquire the assets of the group, it says, and will …
Business Critical Digital Signage Yearbook, Almost 200 Pages, Now Available As Free Download July 11, 2022 by Super User The excellent yearbook the German digital signage consulting and content firm Invidis has for many years produced annually for the Europe and Middle East markets now has North American content, and is available as a free download. It’s a nearly 200-page PDF file loaded with subject matter expert-level content (in English) from the Invidis team …
Display Mounts Firm Ergotron Changes Owners In $650M Cash Deal July 11, 2022 by Super User One of the more well-established names in AV mounting hardware – 40-year-old Ergotron – has been acquired by a Houston-based private equity firm. Based in St. Paul, MN, Ergotron mounts are mainly used for desktop monitors and things like moveable AV carts in environments like healthcare, education and manufacturing. They are particularly strong in things …
How About LED Spheres As Creepy, Probing Eyeballs? July 7, 2022 by Super User LED displays shaped into spheres is not a new thing, but the Chinese LED manufacturer Ocolour Technologies has a Linkedin post on a distinct and, some might suggest, seriously creepy small format version – LED as giant, shifting eyeballs. I don’t know what the use-case would be, but you could imagine this sort of thing …
LA Startup Toli 360 Marketing Interactive Try-On Mirror Displays … For Home Use July 6, 2022 by Super User A small LA start-up called Toli 360 is marketing interactive full length bedroom mirrors as AI-driven shopping malls that would allow consumers to source and try on clothing at home – borrowing on what has mostly been a concept in retail for the last few years. While there have indeed been flagship stores and stores-of-the-future …
Touchscreens Represent Biggest Slice Of $18B Revenue Pie In Digital Signage July 6, 2022 by Super User The biggest revenue generator in the digital signage hardware side of Pro AV right now is, surprising to me at least, the interactive/touchscreen market, according to new research from the research firm Omdia. 2022 industry revenues are forecast to hit $18B, and Omdia suggests more than a third of that revenue went to investments in …
LED On Film Getting Tighter And Brighter July 5, 2022 by Super User Hat Tip to industry vet Alan Brawn, who noted this transparent LED tech on Linkedin … As he said in sharing this, transparent LED on glass is getting steadily tighter and generally better. A Chinese firm, Shenzhen MVX Device, has started marketing Muxwave transparent LED displays that can have pixel pitches as tight as 4mm …
Outfront Now Has About 1,000 Livecard Digital Posters On NYC Commuter Rail Cars July 1, 2022 by Paul Fleuranges GUEST POST: PAUL FLEURANGES, OPEN TO WORK I took the Metro-North Railroad out of New York City recently, and as I rode along the Harlem Line, I noticed my train car was outfitted with OUTFRONT Media “Livecard” digital screens. The screens were installed inside the door vestibule area of a set of M-7 cars — …
