Disney Concert Hall In LA To Get Projection-Mapped, Based On Music Data September 12, 2018 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
First Buffalo Digital Signage Industry Mixer Set For Tuesday Night September 10, 2018 by Dave Haynes People in the Buffalo, NY-area active in digital signage are getting together tomorrow night in that city for a networking mixer, which I THINK was pulled together by Kevin Cosbey, who does biz dev for Arrow (Seneca). The event is from 6 to 9 pm at EXPO Market, 617 Main Street, in the central district. The first …
iBase Unveils Beefy New PC Digital Signage Player With NVIDIA Graphics Card September 10, 2018 by Dave Haynes The digital signage market seems to be shifting pretty significantly to special purpose boxes (like Brightsign’s) and smart displays, but there is still a market out there for PCs as players, and companies pushing out some beefy product. Taiwan’s iBase has announced its SI-614 digital signage player – a PC using a 7th Gen Intel …
NEC Gets Deeper Into Direct View LED September 7, 2018 by Dave Haynes The big LCD display manufacturers continue to get more deeply involved in direct view LED – a move driven at least in part by the migration of video wall business from LCD to genuinely seamless LED surfaces. NEC Display Solutions this week announced the launch of both outdoor and indoor products built off the acquisition …
Transparent LEDs And Interactive Walls At Nissan’s Amazing Ginza Experience Center September 6, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is really something – the Nissan Crossing experience center in Tokyo’s famed Ginza shopping district. The center has mostly been around since 1963, but was brought back and fully re-energized a couple of years ago, using a lot of technology. The feature car turntable at the base has LED strips on the circular glass …
Why Big Retailers Like Whole Foods Are Deploying Digital Endcaps And Shelf-Edge Displays September 5, 2018 by Dave Haynes Retail is one of the most-chased vertical markets in all of digital signage, but if you ask people who really know this tech, but also really know retail, they’ll tell you they’ve rarely seen it done well, or right. I tend to agree, and sometimes its not the whiz-bang flashy stuff that makes a difference, …
LCD Display Market Booming, Says IHS Markit In New Tracker Research September 4, 2018 by Dave Haynes Research firm IHS Markit says the large format LCD display market is booming at the moment, with panel shipments hitting a record monthly high in July 2018 in terms of unit and area shipment. London-based IHS says unit shipments increased by 10 percent in July compared to a year ago, to reach 64.3 million units, …
