Tripleplay Using Famed Football Grounds As User Group Meet-up Site September 13, 2018 by Super User User group meetings are not something I normally write about, but the UK software provider Tripleplay has arranged for a very cool venue for its annual meet-up with end-users and partner vendors – Stamford Bridge, the home of pro football (soccer) team Chelsea FC. The central London venue is a client site. Says Tripleplay: Our engineering …
Moving LED Ball Cloud Fills Canopy At Guangzhou Airport DOOH Media Installation September 13, 2018 by Super User The new terminal 2 at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport in China (Guanzhou is in the same mega-city region as Shenzhen) has a set of very impressive digital OOH and ambient media pieces in called Cultural Sky Plaza, located in the center of the pre-security check-in area. The idea of the main piece, it seems, is to …
DC University’s LED Scoreboard Has A Serious Oopsie September 12, 2018 by Super User Media outlets have heavily over-played this, but it is still an interesting cautionary tale that the scoreboard at the arena for a university in Washington, DC fell onto the basketball court Tuesday afternoon. The coverage tends to vaguely imply the four-sided LED board at George Washington University fell from the rafters, perhaps because that sounds …
Screenfeed Debuts Entertainment Center, For Long Dwell Time Content Needs September 12, 2018 by Super User Minneapolis-based subscription content provider Screenfeed has very cleverly pulled together a new service – called Entertainment Center – designed to serve the needs of the many, many waiting areas and lounges out there that have long dwell times and now use cable TV news channels to distract customers. “We’re very excited about this because we’ve never …
Grocer Lets Shoppers Order Fresh Veg Off Kiosk, From On-Premise Roof Garden September 12, 2018 by Super User There is endless talk in this business about connecting digital signage to customer experience, but it’s not that often that I see initiatives that get beyond those customers seeing something or other on screens. This is different. A grocer in suburban Montreal, Quebec used a touchscreen and live-cam feed from a rooftop garden to let …
180 Sq. Metres Of LED Bring London Skies Down To Medieval Passageway September 12, 2018 by Super User The property developer wanted to retain and highlight a medieval passageway that runs through the center of a new office tower development in London – uniquely using live 4K video streaming from a rooftop garden to fill the canvas of what is the largest ceiling-suspended LED screen in Europe. The development at Fen Court (10 …
Disney Concert Hall In LA To Get Projection-Mapped, Based On Music Data September 12, 2018 by Super User Via Curbed LA One of the more recognizable buildings in downtown Los Angeles – the Walt Disney Concert Hall – is getting projection-mapped later this month to celebrate the start of the LA Philharmonic’s new season. The Frank Gehry-designed building’s weird and wavy metallic surfaces will be the subjection of digital data projections from September 27 to October …
Six Fine-Pitch LED Columns Welcome Visitors To Louis Vuitton Foundation September 11, 2018 by Super User This is the atrium of the Louis Vuitton Foundation building in Paris – a one-of-a-kind business and cultural center that is also an art museum and the global headquarters of LVMH, the parent company of Louis Vuitton. There are six fine-pitch LED columns welcoming guests and displaying artworks from the museum’s collection, as well as LV branded themes. …
AOPEN Releases Small-Format 15 & 19-Inch All-In-Ones For Win 10, Linux September 11, 2018 by Super User Taiwan-based digital signage hardware firm AOPEN has released a pair of small format all-in-one touch displays aimed at the self-service and retail market – the interesting twist being their support for Windows 10 and Linux. The company previously released all-in-ones built around ChromeOS, and the general trend of late has been all-in-ones using Android (which …
Stratacache CEO Expects Headcount To Top 1,000 By Early 2019 September 11, 2018 by Super User There’s a bunch of interesting nuggets of information in a local paper’s interview with Stratacache CEO Chris Riegel – most notably that he expects to be north of 1,000 employees within a year. Talking to the Dayton Daily News, Riegel says he’s now at 750, with 320 of them in Dayton. About 90 employees work …
