Display Week: Start-up Brelyon Shows Perceived 122-Inch Viewing Canvas On 32-Inch Screen May 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
CRI Feeling Chip Shortage; Big Rollouts Delayed May 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes When I put out a request for reader insights about the global chip shortage and the impacts on businesses, I maybe should not have been surprised by the lack of response. I had a few who were willing to share, but only off the record. It’s one of those debates many companies are probably having …
Burnley’s Historic Football Venue Getting Massive LED Upgrade May 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes There are lots of examples of huge, buzzworthy LED displays going up in new sports venues – over the pitch and in some cases being all or much of the facade. Here’s a very different kind of project – involving a more than 140-year-old venue and a mid-tier English Premier League football team that doesn’t …
Hamburg Pop-Up Bike Store Uses LCD Video Wall To Drive Specialized Brand May 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes LED gets all the attention for video walls these days, but there are still retail projects going in that take advantage of the lower cost and resolution of narrow bezel LCD displays. This is a pop-up store in Hamburg, Germany, run by Concept Cycles but built for the premium partner brand Specialized. The 300 sq. …
Rise Vision, Airtame Partner On Digital Signage Solution Aimed Mainly At Schools May 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes Longtime digital signage CMS Rise Vision has announced an intriguing partnership with Airtame, a technology startup that also offers a digital signage solution built around a device that looks like a Google Chromecast dongle. That partnership relates to Rise Vision’s vast and excellent library of user-driven content templates for scenarios like schools. With Rise Vision’s …
Gaudi Fans Get Immersed In Architect’s Genius In Six-Sided LED Cube Room May 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to AV Magazine for noting this … Casa Batlló, a museum in Barcelona dedicated to Antoni Gaudí (the Sagrada Familia is his most famous work), has a new exhibition that gets into the mind of the architect. It’s showpiece is a roughly 30 foot square room with a 10 foot ceiling that is …
Display Week: Need A Bigger Desktop Monitor? How About A 89-Inch Curved MicroLED? May 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes I am looking at a big, curved monitor as I type this, and while it seemed crazily large when I first got it, I’ve had it long enough now to vaguely think, “I’d maybe get something bigger if I could.” I would not, for example, say no to getting a real-world version of this prototype …
