Dubai Maybe Getting Its Own Version Of An Immersive Sphere, But It’s A Big Maybe September 30, 2024 by Super User The CEO and President of MGM Resorts has floated the idea of a big immersive sphere attraction going up in Dubai, but there are several differences to the Sphere switched on last year in Las Vegas. First, it would have seating for 300 people, while Sphere in Las Vegas can hold 18,000-plus. Second, it would …
U.S. Congressional Committee Chair Urging Government To Blacklist Big Chinese Display Manufacturers BOE, Tianma September 30, 2024 by Super User The Michigan congressman who chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is encouraging the U.S. government to blacklist a pair of giant Chinese display manufacturers over concerns that using display tech from that country for advanced US military systems presents a tangible security and supply chain risk. Congressman John Moolenaar has sent …
Ambitious New Pop-Up Store On London’s Oxford Street Borrows On Nearby Outernet London’s Visual Scale September 30, 2024 by Super User Something that might be described as a pop-up retail version of the immersive, LED-driven Outernet London attraction is opening soon just a couple of blocks away, on the UK capital’s busiest high street. Future Stores will fill the Oxford Street-facing ground floor of a commercial block, using big entryways and curtain wall glass to give …
Watch: A Giant Butterfly With LED Wings September 26, 2024 by Super User This is not what I’d call digital signage, bur it is using LED to offer up something that is the definition of experiential – a giant butterfly with some 39,000 LEDs that flaps its wings as people below use an oversized porch swing. The 26 x 14 foot butterfly is 15 feet above the ground. …
Storied Kentucky College Basketball Program Using That LED In Glass Dynamic Surface For 2024-25 Season Launch September 26, 2024 by Super User In what is likely a preview of what may grow increasingly common among deeper-pocketed, alumni-supported programs, the storied University of Kentucky basketball program will introduce its 2024-25 teams next month on one of those multimedia LED sports floors out of Germany. An ASB GlassFloor – the same tech used for the NBA All-Star Skills night …
Here’s Something Far Closer To The Idea Of A Holographic Display, And The Company Doesn’t Use The H Word September 25, 2024 by Super User This is far, far, far closer to being a hologram than most of the companies marketing their two-dimensional display tech as holographic, but even though the visual is genuinely three-dimensional, the company doing it doesn’t even drop the H word. This is a 3D Volumetric display developed by the Adelaide, Australia tech lab Voxon, with …
College Campus Food Delivery Robots Now Sport Ads On Cargo Boxes September 24, 2024 by Super User Some sort of advertising is slapped on everything from commuter trains, cube trucks and taxis, and all the way down to the cargo boxes on the rear of scooters, so it is no surprise that a company that does its deliveries by autonomous rolling robots sees an opportunity in advertising. Berkeley, CA-based Kiwibot, most known …
LG Now Marketing The Kinetic LED Wall Product It Used As Booth Eye Candy At Big Trade Shows This Year September 24, 2024 by Super User The previous post on here goes into Panasonic’s water vapor projection system, and in looking to make a point about trade show eye candy that never gets commercialized, I was going to use LG’s stands at ISE and InfoComm as Exhibit A – because of the Korean electronics giant fronting its mega-stands with a shape-shifting …
Turns Out Panasonic’s Profoundly Underwhelming Mist Projection System Is Also Profoundly Impractical For Pro AV Uses September 24, 2024 by Super User One of the things I wanted to see when walking the floor at InfoComm back in June was an eye candy thing that Panasonic was touting at its stand – a super-fine water spray system that created a mist that had enough volume to it to show projected visuals. I walked in to the stand, …
NBA’s Miami Heat Incorporates Giant LED Torch Inside Its New Center-Hung Scoreboard At Home Arena September 23, 2024 by Super User This is a good example of how LED introduces more design flexibility for digital displays in large venues – a giant LED sculpture shaped like a flame that fills the space inside an otherwise floating center-hung scoreboard and replay screen array at the arena where the NBA’s Miami Heat plays. The logo-shaped LED sculpture is …
