2020 Global Digital Signage Awards Entries Now Being Accepted June 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes The team that puts together the global Digital Signage Awards, which Sixteen:Nine helps sponsor, has opened submissions for the 2020 awards, which will theoretically be handed out in February at a dinner in Barcelona, during ISE 2021. That is a long way from now and much will have happened between now and then. Hopefully, it …
Quividi Tweaks Audience Measurement Software To Address A Very 2020 Problem – Face Masks June 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes The French computer vision company Quividi says it has upgraded its patter detection software platform to deal with a very 2020 problem – counting and categorizing audiences for screens when the viewers are wearing face masks. Quividi says it is about to release an upgraded version of its audience measurement platform that can count Digital …
InfoComm 2020 Is Next Week, But All Online With Demos And Learning June 9, 2020 by Dave Haynes In normal times – remember those? – many of you would be getting yourself organized to get in a car or hop on a flight to get to Las Vegas next week for the 2020 edition of the big pro AV trade show InfoComm. While Vegas is re-opening its casinos and other attractions (amidst 100+ …
Navori Releases AI-Driven Access Control Solution For Retail, Public Spaces June 9, 2020 by Dave Haynes I could do almost nothing else but re-post PR about digital signage and pro AV companies releasing their take on a solution for problems brought on by COVID-19, but they’re all quite similar. So I’m not doing that – focusing on ones that have a different spin or come from a “major” player in the …
Stu Armstrong Moves Over To JohnRyan As CRO June 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes After more than 16 years running sales and being the “face” of ComQi, in its various iterations, Stu Armstrong has taken on the new task of Chief Revenue Officer for JohnRyan. The new role is more of an assignment than career move, as both ComQi and JohnRyan are owned by the Taiwanese display manufacturing giant …
Digital Displays Fix The Hacks Retailers Are Using To Communicate With Shoppers June 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes Longtime digital signage solutions provider Freshwater Digital has a good little post up on its company blog, and Linkedin, about the emerging utilitarian aspect of digital signage displays in retail. I’ve been doing a lot of moderating on web video panels, or talking on them, and often mentioning how retailers have been resorting to rough-looking, …
Digital Projection’s New System Separates Laser Light Source And Projection Head By Up To 100 Meters June 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes If you spend any time looking at commercial projection technology as an option for a visual display project, you’ve probably noticed the projection units can be roughly the same size as the HVAC system on the side of a building, or on the roof. The things are necessarily big and heavy, take up a lot …
Q-Better Release Free QR-based Menu Software For Restaurant Operators June 3, 2020 by Dave Haynes There was much rolling of eyes, for many years, when companies in this sector would bring up QR codes as an exciting part of the communication mix. At its silly height, there were highway billboard ads that had QR codes on them – 300 feet away from the people seeing them. But the pandemic, and …
Arreya Develops Return To Work Messaging For Free Download June 3, 2020 by Dave Haynes The digital signage CMS software firm Arreya has been one of the companies to step up and provide free content files to help distribute public service information about the pandemic. With businesses now re-opening in many jurisdictions, there is a need for content that again reinforces good habits and routines in public spaces and workplaces. …
Looking Glass Announces 32-Inch 8K Holographic Display June 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Brooklyn-based tech startup Looking Glass has been showing its take on holographic displays for the last few years, but one of the key barriers to adoption was the size of the first units. A couple of years ago, the company was showing off a 9-inch and and 16-inch version of a thick glass display …
