New Global HQ For IT Giant Leidos Is LED-Filled November 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is the gorgeous new world HQ of the IT solutions giant Leidos, in Reston, VA, outside of DC. The building was designed by Gensler and what caught my eye was the briefing center, which has a big fine pitch LED as its presentation canvas, and a series of fine pitch LED portrait displays just …
Experiential Flagship Store For Cannabis Producer Makes Heavy Use of LED As Design Elements November 25, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a cannabis store – albeit an experiential flagship store – in a monster shopping mall in Edmonton, Alberta – with fine pitch LED being used as the menu display, promo display and a big ambient ceiling. The 11,000 sq. ft. Aurora Cannabis store in West Edmonton Mall – at one time the biggest …
Intuiface, Sightcorp Partner On Shopper Analytics And Real Time Interactive Content Bundle November 25, 2020 by Dave Haynes French interactive software firm Intuiface and the Dutch computer vision firm Sightcorp have announced a partnership that integrates technologies and results in a bundled toolkit designed to simplify things like shopper analytics and real-time content triggering to screens. The partnership involves the integration of Amsterdam-based Sightcorp’s DeepSight Toolkit with Intuiface to enable, says PR, both …
Next AVIXA DS Power Hour Is Dec. 1 – The Parking Lot Is The New Store November 25, 2020 by Dave Haynes The next AVIXA Digital Signage Power Hour is coming up quick, on Dec. 1, the date moved up to make way for the D=SIGN 2-day conference. This one is a roundtable format again, focused this time on how COVID-19 has changed the way retailing needs to be done. It’s called: The Parking Lot Is The …
LED’s Mainstreaming Continues: Here’s a Car Rental Counter With A Big Video Wall November 25, 2020 by Dave Haynes If you close your eyes and empty your busy head, you may be able to vaguely recall these things called airports – mass transport hubs popular before the plague hit. Airports are often home to really great digital signage work – because they have a lot of eyeballs (normally) moving past screens, and they have …
Giant Arched LED Video Wall Greets Workers, Visitors At SW China Office Tower November 24, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a big 12K resolution LED video wall in the street-level lobby of the tallest office tower in the southwestern Chinese city of Guiyang. The skyscraper officially opened its doors about a year ago, and the centerpiece is the 7.7 meter high by 27 meter wide video wall, which arches over the elevator lobby …
The D=SIGN Digital Signage Conference Agenda For Dec. 8-9 Now Built Out November 24, 2020 by Dave Haynes The agenda has been built out for D=SIGN, the two-day online conference being organized by AVIXA and the Digital Signage Federation for Dec. 8-9. It has a pile of my fellow DSF board members, as well as general members and other industry folks – all subject matter experts in one or numerous aspects of the …
Big LCD Video Wall Greets Customers At Entry To WaFd HQ Branch November 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is the renovated public area of the head office of WaFd bank (Washington Federal) in downtown Seattle, with the big digital feature a three by three narrow bezel LCD video wall in the entry. The Connected Walls entry component, developed by Seattle consultancy NewReach and put in by AVI-SPL, runs community content, as well …
Edmonton Office Tower Adds Prisms – LED Light Boxes Suspended Over Lobby November 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is the lobby of HSBC Place, an office and retail development in downtown Edmonton, Alberta. The Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) and Epic Investment Services engaged NYC-based experiential design firm ESI Design to come up with ideas to transform the public area to attract tenants and “fit in better with the new nearby, pedestrian-friendly …
Research Showing Interactive Tech Sales Soaring; Up 16% Year-On-Year November 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes New research from Futuresource Consulting suggests the interactive display market has steered its way through this pandemic far better than anticipated, with year-on-year sales actually up 16%. “The market has well and truly bounced back,” says Colin Messenger, Senior Market Analyst, Futuresource Consulting. “Particularly when we consider the supply chain challenges that surrounded COVID-19 and …
