Snappy Virtual Try-On Make-Up Mirrors Boost Store Sales By Average 31 Percent November 21, 2017 by Dave Haynes A Toronto company called ModiFace has unveiled a very snappy, very impressive augmented reality try-on mirror for MAC cosmetic stores that lets women – mostly – virtually try on different types and shades of things like lipstick, without actually using sample product at the counter. The company’s code uses a camera to pattern-map a face …
Times Square LED Boards Use Petition Data To Drive Impeach Trump Campaign November 20, 2017 by Dave Haynes Setting the undoubtedly polarizing politics aside, a media buy involving a couple of big digital boards in Times Square looks interesting for what it is doing with visualized data. Maybe the content presentation is canned in some way, but it LOOKS like a private U.S. citizen’s big dollar effort to see President Trump impeached is …
Renovated Abu Dhabi Telecom Retailer Has Wall To Wall Screens November 20, 2017 by Dave Haynes Via Linkedin This is the renovated Axiom Telecom store in Dalma Mall in Abu Dhabi – which has a Microsoft Store-like approach to LCD displays not just being screens on walls, but largely being the walls. I like. Axiom is a big retailer and distributor of wireless products in the region.
A Magic Interactive Mirror For Gyms November 20, 2017 by Dave Haynes I’ve seen no end of photos and videos of “magic” mirrors for fashion retailing applications, and one or two for hotel rooms, but this is the first suggestion of how an LCD mirror display with a touch overlay could be used in health and fitness. This is a video from UK-based Crystal Display Systems showing how …
Starbucks Markets Seattle Office Space It Owns Using Vast Projection Wall In Lobby November 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes There is so much fine pitch LED stuff going in as video walls these days that it is easy to forget about other ways of doing a big digital canvas, like projection. This is a project in Seattle in a building owned by Starbuck’s – but it is NOT the head office, just commercial property …
Provision, Coinstar Partner On Rollout Of 3D Holographic Kiosks November 16, 2017 by Dave Haynes LA-based Provision Interactive Technologies has done a partnership that will see its 3D holographic display and point-of-sale coupon system added to some 300 Coinstar money-counting kiosks in the U.S. before the end of this year. The partnership, says a press release, enables Coinstar to offer customers in-store savings on consumer products with coupons offered through …
ASU’s New Law Center Adds Three Very Different Video Walls November 16, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is the new Arizona State University Beus Center for Law in downtown Phoenix,, which includes three very different video walls put in by integrator Level 3 Audiovisual. There is: An 11.5 ft high by 33 ft wide, multi-window-capable Nanolumens video wall that adjusts to the desert sun through the day; A 2×6 interactive Multitaction …
Here’s A Giant Whirly-Twirly LED Sign In A Chinese Public Park November 16, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is a set of rotating screens on pylons in a public park/square in Shandong, China, which is between Beijing and Shanghai. The watermark on the video clearly shows it is a Unilumin LED product. It’s interesting. There’s a bit of a debate going on through a Linkedin post about it, suggesting this is pointless …
That Giant Coca-Cola Robotic LED Board in NYC (Surprise!) Has Issues November 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes Damn near anyone who has done digital signage or digital OOH ops work will have seen Coca-Cola’s impressive, ambitious 3D robotic LED board in New York’s Times Square and thought, “Oh, that’s going to be an uptime nightmare.” Anything with that many moving parts, out in the elements, is going to need a lot of …
Vote Early And Often November 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Federation has just sent out a link to its membership to vote for the next three weeks on new at-large members of the Board of Directors. There are lots of great industry people on the slate … and me. I don’t think I’ve run for election to anything, ever … or at …
