Watch This Great Animation Showing How LED On Film Goes In Shop Windows May 20, 2021 by Super User One of the reasons that LED display manufacturers have turned to bundled products and fixed sizes is that they say the pro AV ecosystem, as a whole, is still somewhat unfamiliar with the technology and how it goes together. So they struggle to sell something they don’t totally understand – given all the references to …
Zombie Tiger Stalks Corner Of Picadilly Circus, As Anamorphic Visual On DOOH Display May 20, 2021 by Super User The majority of the anamorphic 3D creative visuals we’ve highlighted in recent months have some from China and South Korea, but here’s a new one from London’s Picadilly Circus. It is a promo on a wraparound LED board, operated by Ocean Outdoor in the famed tourist district, for the new Netflix film Army of the …
Wicket Software Gets Patent For AI-driven Access Controls To Venues May 20, 2021 by Super User I assume or at least hope that software companies who develop access control systems that mash up computer vision, sensors and screens – for retail and other kinds of venues – will have had a look over the patents out there before getting too deep into product development. Here’s one reason: The Philly-area software firm …
Burger King Using AI For Dynamic Recommendations On Ordering Touchscreens May 20, 2021 by Super User The tech blog VentureBeat has an interesting post up about how major QSR chains are following the lead of McDonald’s by applying artificial intelligence for driving sales and customer experience. It notes that Burger King worked with Intel and an AI company to come up with a recommendation engine for touchscreen ordering. “It can predict,” …
Seoul Starbucks Reserve Drives Experience With Ambient, Data-Triggered LED Feature Wall May 19, 2021 by Super User This is a Starbucks Reserve location in Seoul, in the same office tower as the coffee company’s Korean headquarters. It has a 2.5mm LED video wall on an arched feature wall. The video shows it running an animated watercolor depicting a coffee planation. Opened a couple of months ago, Starbucks says: The interior of the …
Seenspire, Embed Launch Automated Content Feed Partnership May 19, 2021 by Super User The Belgian subscription content firm Seenspire has announced a partnership that provides users of UK-based CMS software firm embed signage with unlimited access to automated content. Seenspire describes itself as “the first streaming service to provide unlimited access to digital signage content in a single subscription” and with this tie-up, users of embed can simply …
Display Week: Start-up Brelyon Shows Perceived 122-Inch Viewing Canvas On 32-Inch Screen May 19, 2021 by Super User In my virtual wander along the exhibitor aisles of SID Display Week, I am looking for display tech that is either a big advance on what’s already out there, or very different. I came across a Silicon Valley start-up called Brelyon that has an immersive display that delivers an immersive virtual reality experience, without the …
Google’s Project Starline Touts Hologram-ish, 3D Video Calling May 19, 2021 by Super User Google had its annual I/O conference yesterday, and among the new pots and pans the tech giant said it was working on was something called Project Starline – a very involved, more lifelike take on video calling. It is something akin to a video calling booth that has a 65-inch display that relays, in real …
Appspace Now Built Into Cisco Webex, Enabling Easy Jump From Video Calls To Workplace Messaging May 19, 2021 by Super User The CMS software firm Appspace has had close ties with Cisco for many years, and the latest iteration of that relationship is an integration of the the digital signage platform within Cisco’s Webex video call system. Tied in with Cisco Webex Control Hub, the set-up allows companies that use Cisco Webex devices to enable team …
Melitron, Axis and ICON Partner On COVID-Driven People Count Kiosk for Retail May 18, 2021 by Super User I don’t get out much lately, so maybe the retail world is overrun with COVID-19 access control technologies and I’d see them if I traveled. But I don’t think so. I get carpet-bombed daily with emails about digital deployments of some kind or another, and I just have not seen much material that suggests widespread …
