LA Office Tower Lobby Adds Experiential LED Video Wall Fronted By Perforated Metal Sheet May 24, 2021 by Dave Haynes LED video walls in office tower lobbies are growing increasingly common as a combination of experiential marketing tool and tenant amenity, but I haven’t seen one done like this – lower resolution LED motion graphics behind a huge sheet of perforated metal. The new digital art installation to the lobby of 800 North Brand Boulevard, a …
Amscreen Expanding Display Business Across Atlantic To Americas Markets May 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes If you have been around the industry forever, like me, you may recall many years ago an early UK media network in chain retail stores that was based around a small-ish LCD on a counter-mounted pole or wall, with a low-rez LED ticker above it. That company, Amscreen, has evolved quite a lot through the …
VSBLTY Does Retail Analytics Partnership With Sensormatic, Johnson Controls May 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes Smaller tech companies with very specific capabilities to offer will likely get more traction in the market if they are partnered and integrated with more established technologies, so I like this partnership just announced between Sensormatic Solutions and Philly-based computer vision start-up VSBLTY. Swiss-based Sensormatic is part of Johnson Controls, a global player in smart …
South African Retailer Kits Out Flagship With More Than 65 Smart Screens May 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a flagship store of Edgars, a department store chain in South Africa, which was upgraded with more than 65 digital signage screens around the retail footprint. The main feature is an array of sync’d LCD screens by the escalators. It would be quite common, these days, to see that big wall clad side …
Watch This Great Animation Showing How LED On Film Goes In Shop Windows May 20, 2021 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
