Toronto Commuter Transport Network Expanding Use Of Real-Time Digital Signage Across Hubs November 2, 2021 by Super User People who need to regularly get around and across the Toronto area will be familiar with that busy city’s mass transport system, which involves commuter rail and buses and hooks in, where it can, with the city’s subway system. There has been digital signage for years inside stations, but now Metrolinx, the umbrella organization that …
Modernizing Corporate Digital Signage In The Enterprise November 1, 2021 by Daniel Hurtado Guest Post: Daniel Hurtado, Userful In today’s corporate landscape, interconnection is paramount for organizations to thrive, and maybe even survive. Increasingly, our interconnectedness is visual, and companies are using visual tools to communicate, leveraging video, images, dashboards and more. The need for those visual tools, along with the decreased price of screens, advancements in technology …
Video: We Go Walkies At InfoComm 2021 With Manny And Ben Of Q Division October 28, 2021 by Super User Manolo Almagro and Ben Gauthier from the consultancy Q Division are down at InfoComm walking the floor and getting set to speak tomorrow morning. They very kindly offered to give me a quick walk-around and impressions from the floor. The quick summary: it’s busier than expected, but in the context of digital signage, there’s not …
Here’s A Very Clever Use Of Those LED Light Wand Thingies, For Generative Art October 27, 2021 by Super User I have hugely mixed feelings about those madly spinning LED light wand thingies that always seem to attract attention at trade shows. I think they’re gimmicks with short-term stopping power. I worry about any electronics in busy spaces that has moving parts, and these things spin like fans. And I dislike how they’re called holograms, …
Functionality Beats Wow Factor, For A Change, In Use Of Big Sony Premium LED Wall October 26, 2021 by Super User Here’s a case of a premium fine pitch video wall going into a business for functional reasons, as opposed to many of the Wow Factor jobs that are mainly intended to impress viewers in places like corporate lobbies. It’s a curved Sony Crystal LED wall being used by an aerospace contractor to review drawings and …
AVI-SPL Launches New Experiential Tech Business Unit October 26, 2021 by Super User Pro AV integrator giant AVI-SPL has launched a new business unit – XTG (Experience Technology Group) – focused on servicing the increasing demand it says it is seeing for immersive, and interactive brand and employee experiences. XTG is building on AVI-SPL’s rich heritage and reputation, says the company in announcing the service, by specializing in …
London Coffee Shop Uses Projection To Create Wall-Filling, Animated Ordering Menus October 26, 2021 by Super User When industry people think about digitizing menus for the quick service and fast casual restaurant industries, they’re almost certainly thinking about how many flat panel displays will be needed, and where they’ll go. But using projection on the walls behind counters offers an interesting, very flexible alternative solution. This is a coffee shop in London …
AV Vendor Draper Nearing Funds Goal For Wounded US Military Vet October 22, 2021 by Super User Hat Tip to the folks at the AV mounts and gear firm Draper, which is nearing a fundraising goal that would provide a mobility chair to a catastrophically wounded U.S. military veteran. Sue Downes, a mother of two from Tazewell, TN, sustained serious injuries while serving as a Corporal with a military police unit in …
New Midtown NYC Skyscraper’s Top Floors Have Much More Than Just A Great View; Features Immersive, Experiential Observatory October 22, 2021 by Super User A new tourist ands event destination opened way up high in New York on Thursday – what’s described as the world’s most immersive observatory experience. The ribbon was cut to open SUMMIT One Vanderbilt, a multi-level space put together 1,063 feet above Madison Avenue in midtown Manhattan. The features include immersive art experiences supported, in …
More Evidence LED Video Walls Are Mainstreamed: A Fish Counter At A Supermarket Has Vast Video Wall October 22, 2021 by Super User Via Invidis It really was just a few years ago when fine pitch indoor LED walls started being marketed by manufacturers, with buyers expressing a lot of excitement … until they learned how much walls like that would cost. Fast-forward to now – in a hyper-competitive marketplace with an almost countless number of manufacturers around …
