Microsoft’s Azure Face AI Platform Phasing Out Emotion, Identity Measurements June 23, 2022 by Super User Microsoft is phasing out some key capabilities of its Azure Face audience detection and measurement system, such as identifying age range and gender and the emotional state of viewers. These are commonly marketed capabilities of the computer vision companies active in the digital signage sector, touted as ways to understand the characteristics of people who …
Company Adds Screens To Anti-Theft Totems Common At Retail Gateways June 22, 2022 by Super User A Vancouver, BC-area company is marketing a display totem product for retail that, interesting, doubles up as a loss prevention tool. Just about any consumer will be familiar with vertical totems that shoppers need to walk though as they exit a store, with embedded electronics in the devices doing what’s called Electronic Article Surveillance loss …
Digital License Plate Vendor Reviver Wins Partial Approval; Adding Texas To States That Can Use Them June 22, 2022 by Super User A company built around the idea of replacing stamped metal license plates with connected, e-paper versions is starting to gain some traction – with U.S. state government clearance to sell and use them in Arizona, California, and Michigan, and now approval for them on commercial vehicles in Texas. Based near Sacramento, Reviver uses e-paper technology …
1M Daily Commuters Take A Color Bath At Tokyo’s Hyper-Busy Shinjuku Station June 22, 2022 by Super User Just stumbled on this 2021 project from Montreal’s Moment Factory – a grand-scale synchronized multimedia experience in the east-west passageway of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station, the world’s busiest transit hub. Called The Colour Bath, the project combines video displays with audio and sync’d lighting for content that changes throughout the station’s 24/7 days. Transforming the tunnel into …
Samsung Canada Adds Moneris Payments Terminals To All-In-One Kiosks June 21, 2022 by Super User Partners are important at the best of times, and they’re particularly important for a technology company trying to wedge its way into established business systems and processes like payments – so a deal Samsung’s Canadian wing has worked out with a payments company should help market the electronics giant’s new-ish retail kiosk. Samsung’s all-in-one kiosk, …
Steel Giant’s VIP Bus Has Windows Overlaid With Transparent OLEDs June 21, 2022 by Super User All the information is in Korean and doesn’t give me many answers when translated, but I was nonetheless intrigued by this Youtube video of a bus specially kitted out with transparent OLED displays in all the windows. It was done by Hyun Sun Display, a Korean specialty display and integration company for Posco, a huge …
To Zone … Or Not To Zone June 21, 2022 by Kris VanSlyke GUEST POST: KRIS VANSLYKE, SPECTRIO The ability to create zones on a screen layout, and show different material in each of those zones, is very common across digital signage platforms. But it’s a capability that should only be used with careful thought. Here’s why … With some exceptions, digital signage is a glance medium. People …
Korean Firm Marketing LCD In Film As Projection Screen June 21, 2022 by Super User One of my routines at trade shows – revived recently at InfoComm – is doing a big walk of an exhibit hall and going first to the back and sides, bypassing the big booths up front and in the middle. That tends to avoid the crowds at the start of a day, but some of …
Tech Joint Venture Touts New Digital Signage Options, Applications For Inside Commercial Jets June 20, 2022 by Super User Airports were among the earliest adopters of digital signage, for air traveller communications, and those venues continue to add more and more displays to tell people what to do, where to go and how much time they have. But the only approximation of digital signage on commercial jets has been the use of seatback displays …
Delta Air Lines Turning On Its First Parallel Reality Display At DTW Before Month Is Done June 17, 2022 by Super User Delta Air Lines plans to switch on what it calls the first-ever Parallel Reality display on Concourse A at Detroit’s airport at the end of this month – offering a way for up to 100 people to see content personalized to each viewer, at the same time. Huh? What? The technology was developed by the …
