NOLA’s Airport Using Big, Curved LED Ribbon To Dynamically Locate, Brand Airline Check-in Counters May 2, 2022 by Dave Haynes Here’s another example of an airport adopting LED displays as a core part of the passenger experience – a horizontal LED ribbon display that runs on a curved wall behind the airline check-in counters at the new terminal in New Orleans. It’s a Nanolumens display and one of the rationales for using this sort of …
Big Spanish Integrator Trison’s Financial Backers Looking To Cash Out April 29, 2022 by Dave Haynes Sixteen:Nine’s German language partner Invidis is reporting this morning that the big European digital signage and pro AV integrator Trison is up for sale, having appointed a financial advisor to guide a hoped-for transaction. The For Sale sign for the Spanish firm was triggered by Madrid-based financial investor Portobello Capital looking to cash out after …
Watch: Sony R&D Playing With Projected Light Field And Transparent Displays April 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip Ed Tang for noting this on Linkedin I have nowhere near the technical chops/smarts to explain this properly, but Sony has a post up on a corporate R&D site talking about work in a company lab in Tokyo focused on light field-like and transparent displays. The Linkedin description from Sony says: Sony has …
Watch: Midtown NYC Office Block Gets Fantastic Digital Makeover In Common Spaces April 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a fantastic example of a corporate client buying entirely into the advice that creative should drive the decisions and designs when using technology as an architectural design feature. The big NYC commercial property developer Vornado Realty Trust engaged Montreal’s Moment Factory to rethink the lobby and common spaces experience at PENN 1, a …
Fine Pitch LED Takes Over From LCD, Rear-Projection Systems At Houston Automation Firm April 26, 2022 by Dave Haynes Fine pitch LED is now at a price-point and resolution that it is replacing set-ups like LCD video walls and projection cubes for such uses as corporate showrooms and presentation spaces – as is the case with an automation company in the Houston area. Emerson Automation Solutions engaged integrator AVI Systems to design and put …
Verizon Rolls Out 100s Of Touchscreen-Driven Pickup Lockers For Outside Its Stores April 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting look at why and how the US telecoms giant Verizon developed a largely frictionless pickup locker system for retail locations, first testing it out last year at a location in Omaha, Nebraska. That’s two posts from Nebraska today! Writes Grady Milhon, who runs digital at retail for Verizon, on Linkedin … During …
Stockholm “Space” Touted As World’s Largest Gaming Center Adds Experiential LED Canopy April 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes German content partners Invidis put up a post today about an interesting and vast new digital culture center that’s opened in central Stockholm, with some very big LED walls and a hell of a lot of smart monitors. Called Space, is a multi-level “physical meeting place” for people into all things digital, most notably esports. …
OOH Industry Vet Reviews State Of Times Square LED Boards, And Gives It A D+ April 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes Out of home and display industry veteran Alan High periodically sends me an email with his industry impressions, and often his phone camera shots, from travels into New York City. He’d not been into Manhattan in 18 months, because you know why, and in his latest observations, says much has changed, and not all of …
NEC Launches Suite Of Workplace Management Solutions, Including Signage, Tied To Its Cloud Services April 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes NEC Corporation of America (NEC), the non-display side of NEC not part of the 2020 Sharp-NEC Displays joint venture, sees an opportunity to make workplaces smarter through what it calls a “comprehensive suite of Workplace Management solutions” that include digital signage and wayfinding. The solutions are designed to complement the company’s Univerge Blue Cloud Services, …
2nd Gen Looking Glass Light Field Displays Add Larger Sizes, Richer 3D Viewing Experiences April 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes A post yesterday went into how an impressive grand-scale projection for a TV series promotion was billed as a hologram, but wasn’t really. So to give you a sense of technology that is MUCH closer to being a three-dimensional hologram that has volume, here’s a look at the second generation of light field displays from …
