New AVIXA Research Suggests Pro AV Business Starting To Come Back, Despite COVID-19 August 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes The pro AV-focused trade association AVIXA’s research team has pushed out new business indicators that, for the first time in months, show things on an upswing. Says the new AVIXA business index: We have a long road ahead, but pro AV sales are growing once again. This month, the AV sales index (AVI-S) reached 53.7, …
Digital Signage Solutions Shop Develops COVID-19 Screening Device That Skips Screen August 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes A Knoxville, TN digital signage solutions provider is taking a very different approach to pandemic-driven temperature screening for business by using a BrightSign media playout box, but skipping the screen. EonDigital has started marketing a temperature screening solution, called ExoMetrics Wrist, that is meant to be a hands-free, totally anonymous alternative to the many camera-based …
Four Winds Acquires UK-based Workplace Comms Software Firm SmartSpace August 13, 2020 by Dave Haynes Denver-based Four Winds Interactive has acquired SmartSpace Global, a UK company focused on workplace communications software. Four Winds, which does content management software and solutions, has long made workplace a key vertical, and this gives them already developed and deployed capabilities around things like desk hoteling, meeting room management and workspace analytics – and does …
Bucket List Done In Giant 3D Toys On Seoul Shopping District LED Board August 12, 2020 by Dave Haynes Here’s another terrific long-form art piece developed by the Seoul creative shop d’strict for a big outdoor LED display in that city. The display wraps around a corner of the SMTown Coex Artium building, part of the Coex Convention and Exhibition Center in the upscale Gangnam district. This piece is called Giant Toy, and plays …
Hivestack Gets $10M Infusion From Quebec Gov’t Investment Wing August 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes Montreal-based Hivestack, which has a platform for programmatic digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising, has done $10 million equity funding with an investment arm of the provincial government, Investissement Québec (IQ). The funding enables Hivestack to expand its workforce locally and globally, with a focus on R&D. Hivestack is the software platform that was NOT part of …
Reflect, BrightSign, NEC Partner On “Retail Resurgence” Tech, Financing Bundles August 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes Reflect Systems, BrightSign, NEC Display Solutions and NEC Financial Services have partnered up on what they’re collectively calling a Retail Resurgence Program that bundles a set of solution-specific digital signage tech packages with easy, built-in financing options. The solutions are generally familiar – like kiosks with hand sanitizer dispensers – but the wrinkle on the …
Christie Releases Free “Lite” Version Of Its Mystique Projection-Mapping Software August 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes Christie has developed and made available a free “Lite” version of its excellent projection-mapping software, Christie Mystique, making it easy for solutions providers to map and project on complex shapes and surfaces. Christie Mystique Lite is described as a camera-based alignment and recalibration solution for supported Christie projectors that can quickly install, align, calibrate, and …
Subtle Animations Appear From The Wood Lobby Wall At NYC Cancer Care Center August 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes One of the most powerful effects in digital signage jobs is to add the visuals in unexpected places and ways. This is a lobby at the new David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Designed by the NYC agency C&G Partners, the lobby’s welcome wall is …
After Forever At Rise Vision, Cahoy Joins InReality As CRO August 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes Industry veteran Ryan Cahoy has left Rise Vision after roughly 300 years to sign on with Atlanta-based venue analytics firm InReality, as its Chief Revenue Officer. In a modestly confusing twist, Cahoy still has ownership and keeps an eye on Rise Display, a sister company that functions as an integrator, doing LED-based ticker displays for …
Rare Sighting: A Gesture-Driven Interactive Display With A Point! August 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes I am not much of a fan of body and gesture-tracking applications that ask people to get in front of a screen and wave their arms and have that mimicked on the screen those people are viewing. It tends to be eye-candy that has little evident impact or point. But via Linkedin I stumbled across …
