Danish Football Club Uses LED Boards, Zoom To Bring Fans To Empty Grounds On Game Day June 1, 2020 by Dave Haynes A Danish pro football club has started using direct view LED displays mounted in the stands of its home grounds to allow hardcore fans to be virtually attend matches. AGF Aarhus put in rental LED boards near ground level and used the web conferencing platform Zoom to show the tiled screens of fans – live …
Intuiface Launches Reference Designs For Key “New Normal” Interactions May 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes The French software firm Intuiface has released a pair of what it calls reference designs for common challenges facing retail, restaurant and facility managers as they manage access and interactions in the midst of this pandemic. The idea is to develop and document framework designs that make it relatively easy for third parties – like …
New Research Offers Clues On How Surfaces We All Touch – Like Screens – Handle Pathogens May 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes There is not a lot of cause in this space for referencing research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, but we live in curious times. A letter in the much-respected publication outlines the results of testing the lifespan of the novel coronavirus on a variety of surfaces – a hot button issue, for …
South Beach Condo Complex Adds 29-Foot LED Wall … To Parking Garage Lobby May 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a 29 foot wide by 7 foot high direct view LED video wall in the waiting area of a parking garage of a luxury condo complex in the South Beach section of Miami Beach. Yeah, the area where you wait for an Uber, Lyft or taxi. The video wall is one component of …
LG, Peerless-AV, Ping HD Partner On New Portable Digital Signage Bundle May 22, 2020 by Dave Haynes LG has partnered with Peerless-AV and Ping HD on a portable digital signage bundle aimed at businesses that need to communicate changes and new guidelines as they re-open. There are high-bright window and standard versions of the bundle that encompasses an LG “smart” display running WebOs, Ping’s EngagePHD CMS software, and a Peerless-AV SmartMount Flat …
Samsung Takes Pro TV Digital Signage Bundle Outside; Adding Terrace Version May 22, 2020 by Dave Haynes Timing can be everything, and Samsung has landed on a new signage bundle that might be coming along at just the right set of moments. The COVID-19 pandemic has shuttered bars and restaurants everywhere, and as they start to re-open, physical distancing guidelines may push a lot more dining and drinking activity to new and …
With Clear Physical Barriers Going Up Everywhere, Is This A Big Moment For Transparent Displays? May 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes It is reasonable to suggest that LG’s transparent OLED displays are products that generate a lot of excitement from potential users, but disillusionment when they find out how much the screens cost (hint – LOTS!). The things are gorgeous, but working out valid use-cases and getting a return on the investment has been elusive. Those …
Giant 736 Foot-Wide LED Board Lights Up In LA, Focused On Freeway Traffic May 20, 2020 by Dave Haynes Strangely, whenever I use the term big ass in relation to LED billboards I see all kinds of unrelated search traffic in my Google Analytics. So in the spirit of upping my traffic numbers, this is a big, big ass billboard in LA – 55 feet high and 736 feet wide – wrapping around the …
Dutch Mall Uses Motion-Sensing Software And Real Time AR On LEd Wall, To Drive Social Distancing Guidelines May 20, 2020 by Dave Haynes The new, Westfield-owned Mall of the Netherlands – which is positioned to be in easy reach of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and The Hague – is using a big direct view LED, camera sensors and some relatively simple AR to encourage social distancing among shoppers. The software scans and senses passing shoppers along a mall concourse, …
Crimson AV Launches Hybrid Thermal Sensor/Gel Dispenser/Display May 20, 2020 by Dave Haynes Here’s another variation on the idea of a hybrid display/sanitizer, the difference with this one being the addition of an IR body temperature reader for sensing fevers and dispensers for face masks and gloves. The station is from Crimson AV, the Chicago-based mounts and displays company. The dispenser holds a gallon of gel. That stuff …
