Streaming On-Premise Content Platform Atmosphere Completes $100M Raise To Further Grow Footprint January 5, 2022 by Super User The Austin, TX-based streaming content platform Atmosphere has announced a big cash raise intended to continue expanding its on-premises TV entertainment for business footprint in the U.S. and other countries. The company has completed an $80 million Series C funding round, led by Sageview Capital, and secured a $20 million debt facility (a loan, for …
UV-C Light Touted As Quick Disinfecter For Touchscreens, Payment Terminals, But Is It A Feasible Alternative To Hand Gel? January 4, 2022 by Super User I’ve not yet seen much at all in the way of digital signage and commercial AV-related product announcements coming out of the (in normal times) giant CES electronics trade show in Las Vegas, but was a little curious about a Florida company called LumixUV that has what it calls “groundbreaking robotic disinfection technology” that would …
A Very Different CES Offers Glimpse Of How Big Trade Shows Will Work This Quarter January 3, 2022 by Super User The normally huge and people-crammed CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas kicks off the trade show circuit for numerous companies and individuals involved in the digital signage and pro AV sectors, but as we all know too well, nothing continues to be normal. The show is still on this week, though a pile of …
Delivery Cubes For Scooter Delivery Get Little LED Media Facades December 29, 2021 by Super User We’ve seen, through the years, LCD screens tied in with harnesses so they loom over the heads of people hired to walk-around with these portable digital signs. And we’ve seen, for many years, LCD and then LED screens attached to the tops of taxis and, more recently, ride share cars. Now LED displays are being …
Boston Market Building’s Atrium Transformed Through Indoor Projection-Mapping December 22, 2021 by Super User This is a really interesting use of an otherwise unproductive atrium space in a market building in Quincy, MA, a south Boston suburb. The Gallery at Kilroy Square is now an interactive canvas for local and regional digital artists that will switch out exhibitions easily, because the main delivery mechanism is projection mapping. The program …
Motion Tracking Dynamically Animates St. Louis Arts Center’s Digital Donor Wall December 20, 2021 by Super User The new University Campus of the Center of Creative Arts in St. Louis, MO has made a 20-foot wide interactive display a visual centerpiece for the multidisciplinary community arts organization, using a motion-tracking system to react to the actions of onlookers. The wall was put together by the Boston-based creative technology firm SOSO. From start …
Does The Digital Signage CMS Software Sector Have A Security Issue? December 17, 2021 by Super User Coders at a whole bunch of digital signage management software companies, as well as all the solutions providers and integrators out there who use CMS software, may be paying close attention to the status and fixes for a security vulnerability found last week in widely-used logging software that’s based on Java. The vulnerability in what’s …
Re-booted DSE Revives Awards Program Under A Very Vegas-Appropriate Handle: The DIZZIES December 16, 2021 by Super User The re-boot of DSE is continuing, with the Digital Signage Experience team announcing today it has revived the awards program that was directly tied for many years to the now-defunct version of that trade show and conference. What were the APEX awards before the original show backers Exponation ran into crippling financial troubles will now …
LG Starts Showing TV That Runs On Batteries, Pivots To Portrait, And Has Wheels December 16, 2021 by Super User Hat Tip to Display Daily for noticing this … LG In South Korea has started showing a new TV that can swivel from landscape to portrait mode, be easily moved around a house, and run on batteries for as long as three hours. The LG 27ART10 TV, which also goes by the much more marketing-friendly …
Creative Technology Shop StandardVision Starts Marketing Own LED Display Product December 15, 2021 by Super User LA-based StandardVision has developed a reputation for designing and delivering great-looking digital experiences, particularly in the commercial real estate sector. But the creative technology shop recently took the unusual step of starting to market its own display technology. The company has launched Luma Canvas – modular, fine-pitch LED cabinets that are aimed primarily at the …
