Transparent And High-Bright LCDs Paired To Create 3D-ish Display September 25, 2018 by Super User Transparent LCD has been around for years now, but UK-based Crystal Display Systems has put a different spin on their use by marrying a transparent screen with a regular light-backed LCD in the same display case. The company calls the system ClearVue 3DP – using what it calls polarmatch technology. “The high brightness panel and transparent …
How To Ensure Your Workplace Digital Signage Project Is Successful And Avoid Pitfalls September 24, 2018 by Jason Cremins Guest Post: Jason Cremins, Signagelive Every company or organization regardless of their size or number of employees has a need to communicate openly and effectively with their teams. The challenge is that for many companies a sizeable percentage of their workforce do not have a copy email or access to an Intranet and for those …
CRI Buys Allure Global From Christie, Less Than Three Years After Christie Acquisition September 24, 2018 by Super User Christie Digital Systems seems to be going back to its core business – having wound down the digital signage creative shop Arsenal Media (which become Christie 360) and now selling off Allure Global, the cinema and QSR-focused digital signage solutions provider. Allure’s new masters are the guys at Creative Realities, also known as CRI. In …
Cineplex Wins Digital Menu Boards Deal For European Subway Shops September 19, 2018 by Super User Toronto-based Cineplex Digital Media (aka CDM) has been engaged by the European wing of Subway to “design, deploy, support and operate a network of digital menu boards at Subway locations across Europe.” The digital signage wing of Cineplex, the dominant movie chain in Canada, is providing strategic creative content, consulting services and marketing initiatives to Subway, …
Custom Digital Art Floods LED-filled Barcelona Mall To Drive Experience September 19, 2018 by Super User I’ve consulted with shopping mall groups, and they often talk about their aspiration to use digital to create memorable experiences. A lot of what I have seen done in malls is not all that memorable, and ultimately driven more by getting incremental ad dollars from big screens on walls. But sometimes you bump into projects …
Hongwei Liu On What Works And Doesn’t In Digital Wayfinding, And Mappedin’s Rapid Growth September 19, 2018 by Super User Wayfinding is one of those core technologies that make consumer lives better and easier – helping people locate where they want and need to go in places like shopping malls, airports, health care facilities and higher ed campuses. There are numerous software companies that include wayfinding capabilities in their platforms, but only a handful that …
UK’s Ultrahaptics Launches Plug And Play Device For Touch-Free Interactive Screens September 18, 2018 by Super User A UK company has released a plug and play device that allows digital signage and interactive solutions companies to easily develop immersive screen projects that use haptics technology. The new STRATOS Inspire uses arrays of ultrasonic transducers to project haptic feedback directly onto users’ hands, creating the sense of touch in mid-air. Ultrahaptics’ patented technology controls …
McDonald’s Seeing 3%-3.5% Sales Bump Through Dynamic Digital Menu Displays September 18, 2018 by Super User A reader pointed me to a fascinating piece in Forbes from back in April about McDonald’s that goes into how the QSR giant is using big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to drive sales on menu boards and the self-ordering kiosks that are showing up in many stores. The piece is more than anything a round-up of …
LED Displays As Street Lamp Digital OOH Signs September 14, 2018 by Super User I get marketing emails all day, every day, from Chinese LED manufacturers showing me their latest pots and pans – and 99% of them look pretty much the same. I thought this was different and kind of interesting, in terms of application for the digital OOH market. It’s a direct view LED sign, shaped like …
Shared Office Giant WeWork Acquires Meeting Room Signs Provider Teem September 14, 2018 by Super User Co-working space giant WeWork is getting into a very distinct, narrow part of the digital signage market, acquiring a Salt Lake City company that specializes in digital meeting room signs and the usage and optimization analytics generated by that software platform. TechCrunch is reporting that WeWork’s acquisition of Teem was done for $100 million in …
