Projects: Coca Cola Switches On World First Robotic 3D LED Board In Times Square August 10, 2017 by Super User Coca-Cola has had a big sign in NYC’s Times Square for a century, and this week the global brand turned on a new iconic sign billed as the world’s first 3D robotic LED billboard. It has 1,715 moving and 245 static LED cubes, with an overall visual footprint of 240 square meters, which in non-metric terms, is …
Projects: Giant LV Strip Board Framed By Virtual Roman Columns August 10, 2017 by Super User I don’t think I’ve seen an LED marquee quite like this – a very tall roadside slab that has the curves of three-dimensional Roman columns on each side, wrapped in LED. It’s an 85-foot tall 10mm sign along the Las Vegas Strip, in front of Caesar’s Palace. It went up in June, I believe, for …
Startup Uses Sensors, AI To Drive Real-Time Lineup Dashboards For Sports And Entertainment Venues August 10, 2017 by Super User A Detroit-based startup called Waittime has developed a data-driven, multi-screen platform aimed at improving the fan experience at sports and entertainment venues, by telling people where the washroom and concession lines are shorter. The company installs sensors in venue concourses, with the data they spit out interpreted using artificial intelligence to determine wait times. The …
HTML5 Can Be Rocket Fuel For Interactive Retail Digital Signage August 10, 2017 by Samuel Mekonen Guest Post: Michal Lisewski, Merixstudio Let’s imagine a family’s trip to the local shopping mall, and how web technologies and screens make that visit entertaining and worthwhile. The family pulls up to the parking garage entry, and sensors over parking stalls are driving a dynamic screen that’s telling arriving motorists levels 1 and 2 are …
Projects: Cruise Ship Sets Sail With Experiential Video Wall August 9, 2017 by Super User Cruise ship giant Royal Caribbean International’s Ovation of the Seas took its first voyage in 201g with an experiential video wall on its main esplanade, using nine different pieces of themed, reactive content. The permanent 8’ x 20’ digital art wall reacts to each person passing by, and can be controlled through gestural interactivity. It …
Six Must-Haves For Any Digital Signage Design August 9, 2017 by Samantha Brault Guest Post: Mike Kilian, MVIX Signage, whether it be analog or digital, is at its foundation a form of advertising. The intention of most signs is to attract people to come closer, capture those same people with the content on display, and send customers, consumers, or the general public on their way with a call …
Video: CLEARInk Demos E-Paper With Color, Full-Motion Video August 9, 2017 by Super User Ever since electronic paper first came out of R&D labs observers have been wondering if the tech could 1) go from black and white to color, and 2) evolve from static to motion graphic images. The first challenge was cleared a few years ago, and now it looks like the second one has also been …
Projects: LED Clouds Hang Over Giant Brand’s NYC Lobby August 9, 2017 by Super User Sansi North America Displays aka SNA Displays sent over images of new LED displays now up and running in the NYC offices of what is coyly referred to as the world’s largest athletic apparel brand. The signature part of the project is 13 LED “clouds” – LED displays suspended lobby ceiling that sync up and …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Kristin Russell, Arrow Intelligent Systems August 9, 2017 by Super User Kristin Russell jokes about Arrow being a massive company few people even know about – with $24 billion in annual sales and some 18,000 people walking around with Arrow on their business cards, in 90 countries. She runs Arrow Intelligent Systems, which does everything from design engineering and integration services to global logistics. One of the …
Projects: Two LED Towers Go Up In Norfolk’s Revitalized Waterside District August 7, 2017 by Super User Here’s a nice example of a mixed media digital and analog signboard, one of two put up in the revitalized Waterside District in Norfolk, Virginia. The 23-foot-high boards are 10mm pitch units done by SNA Displays. “This was an interesting and rewarding project for us,” says Jason Helton, executive vice president for SNA Displays. “The client …
