DSE Reboot Pushed Back To November; Q4 Time Window Going Forward January 26, 2022 by Dave Haynes The industry-specific trade show re-booted as Digital Signage Experience has been pushed back to November 2022 – another event affected by the pandemic that keeps on going. The show was supposed to run in late March in Las Vegas as a new take on the Digital Signage Expo show and conference that ran for some …
Expo 2020 Exhibit Mashes Up Kiosk, AR, Selfies And Projection Mapping January 26, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Al Wasl Plaza is one of the signature locations at the Expo 2020 exhibition that was COVID-delayed and now running through March in Dubai. There is a lot of technology all through the Expo site, but a Linkedin post via Christie shows a particularly inventive way to blend interactive kiosks, selfies, AR and projection …
Quebec Restaurant Chain Starts Deploying Touchless Kiosk Screens January 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes The pandemic has triggered a lot of discussion about the merits of touchless technologies over physical touchscreens, but there’s not a lot of evidence that touchless is being adopted. The core argument is around how touchless removes the health safety risk of physically touching a screen to do things like orders, payments and information look-ups. …
Fun Interactive DOOH Campaign Takes Dark Turn With Passersby January 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes The province of Quebec’s auto insurance arm ran an interactive, gesture-driven Digital OOH campaign that started out as fun but then turned very dark about the dangers of jaywalking on city streets. The Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec campaign traces back to 2018 but I missed it first time around. A video has been …
NYC’s JFK Airport Getting $9.5B Terminal One That Very Likely Includes A LOT Of Digital January 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes Huge construction projects present very long lead times and a lot of paperwork and patience for anyone getting involved, but there appears to be some pretty good display technology opportunities for what’s being called a new mega-terminal at New York’s JFK airport. The existing and former sites of Terminals 1, 2, and 3, on the …
Health Care A Great Target Vertical For Digital Signage, But The Competition Is Not Just From Rival Providers January 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes Health care is a heavily pre-occupied right now by the pandemic, but I think that sector is a huge, longer-range target for digital signage applications that has largely been untouched to date. Just in the same way workplaces developed into a huge vertical market for displays, addressing communication and operating issues through screens in common …
Amazon Launching Bricks And Mortar Apparel Store, With Fitting Room Touchscreens As Hubs January 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes Amazon is planning to open its first bricks and mortar store dedicated to apparel, and one of the key components of the in-store customer experience will be touchscreens. The first Amazon Style store will be in suburban LA and will open later this year – showing women’s and men’s apparel, shoes, and accessories from a …
Mvix’s V3 Of CMS Platform Buffs Up UX, But Puts Focus On Device Management, Security Features January 18, 2022 by Dave Haynes The DC-area digital signage software and solutions firm Mvix has announced a major version release of its enterprise platform that adds functionality and streamlines workflows, but perhaps most importantly focuses on mission-critical matters like device health management and security. A pretty, friendly UX is always nice, but on networks that have 100s or 1,000s of …
The Normally Big NRF Retail Show Is Happening In New York, And Appears To Doing OK January 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes Much of the attention as we have shifted into the new year and trade show season was focused on CES in Las Vegas, but that event is mainly about consumer technology. The tech-centric National Retail Federation show in New York is very arguably more relevant to the digital signage ecosystem, and it opened its exhibit …
CMS Software Start-Up Raydiant Acquires Dutch AI Computer Vision Spin-Out SightCorp January 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes More consolidation news today in the digital signage ecosystem, with word that San Francisco start-up Raydiant has acquired Amsterdam start-up SightCorp, giving the US CMS software firm in-house computer vision capabilities. Raydiant, which describes itself as an in-location experience management platform (that’s a new one!), also gets more of a footprint into the EU, where …
