Telecine Lights Up Its Historic Building’s Windows To Thank Essential Workers April 17, 2020 by Dave Haynes The folks at Montreal’s Telecine use their historic office building just east of downtown for a bunch of things – workspace, home (for owner James Fine) and party space, on the roof. They also use the windows for projection, notably during the Christmas season. Now the techs have fired up the projectors to send a …
How Will Customer Engagement Technologies Work When Touching Screens Is Intimidating? April 17, 2020 by Dave Haynes 16:9 is working with the AV trade association AVIXA, and Munich-based consulting/publishing firm invidis on a virtual roundtable next week focused on the touchy issue (sorry for the pun, but … ) of asking consumers to use touch screens when they’ve spent weeks and months being warned to stay the heck away from anyone and …
COVID-19 Will Change How Many Offices Work; Here’s How Digital Display Tech Plugs In April 17, 2020 by Dave Haynes One of the very few positives of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a wholesale shift, albeit temporarily, from formal offices to work from home arrangements. While many people will eventually return to their offices and see their co-workers once again, and all the cars on their commute, it is very likely a lot of people …
BrightSign VP Holland Running PPE Mask Drive For Bay Area Hospitals April 17, 2020 by Dave Haynes And here’s another great story of an industry person personally pitching in to help out in the midst of the pandemic. Many, many people will know Ann Holland, the VP of Marketing for BrightSign. She’s a busy person, but has still found the time to organize a drive to get cloth PPE masks to staffers …
This Hero Doesn’t Wear A Mask, She Makes Them April 16, 2020 by Dave Haynes Guest Post: Zach Todd, SNA Displays Starting a new job is often overwhelming, and doing so just as a pandemic transforms daily life across the globe creates a whole new set of challenges. But I count myself blessed to be where I am, at this time, despite everything going on. Let me tell you why. …
SID Pushes Display Week Off Two Months To August; Moves Down I-280 To San Jose April 15, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Society for Information Display (SID) has rescheduled its annual Display Week from June to August, and shifted the symposium, seminar and trade show from downtown San Francisco to the San Jose Convention Center, where it was run in 2019. The revised schedule is Aug. 2-7. “COVID-19 has had an unprecedented, unanticipated effect on all …
Touchscreen Guidance For A (Post) Confinement World – Part Two April 15, 2020 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Geoffrey Bessin, Intuiface In Part One of this series, we took a look at the steps creative agencies and systems integrators need to take to ensure the longevity and appeal of touch-first digital deployments to physical spaces. Health concerns will not disappear with the end of confinement; if anything, these concerns will be …
Touchscreen Guidance For A (Post) Confinement World – Part One April 14, 2020 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Geoffrey Bessin, Intuiface It’s easy to throw around phrases like “once-in-a-generation” or “once-in-a-lifetime,” but our experience with the Coronavirus outbreak may just merit the comparison. Post-pandemic, life will be irrevocably changed; the question is only by how much. Have handshakes with colleagues and cheek-kisses with friends seen their last days? Will remote work …
SNA Displays Launches Free DIY Tool That Helps Visualize LED Projects At Ideation Stage April 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes The direct view LED firm SNA Displays has launched a visualization tool that allows anyone from an integrator to architect to virtually design display projects in a variety of standard and custom environments. The new online, interactive tool was, understandably, built for SNA Displays’ prospective clients and its partner network, but is also available for …
Hypersign Broadens Workplace Comms Solution Via Huddleup Bundle April 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes The digital signage industry has been seeing companies that do things like video conferencing and screen-sharing adding digital signage modules, like Zoom and Airtame, but here’s the opposite case – with a CMS software company adding workplace meeting capabilities. South Carolina-based Hypersign has released a new extension product to its base visual communications platform, called …
