Projects: 100 Square Metres OF LED In Lithuanian Cinema Lobby June 19, 2017 by Super User This is the Forum cinema in Kaunas, Lithuania, which has invested in a big way in 3.9mm pitch LED screens and ambient content around the theatre’s lobby. The set-up was designed and installed by the Italian firm MacroPix. The total resolution is 4K plus and there is about 100 square metres of digital on the walls. …
InfoComm 2017 – Sixteen:Nine v. DailyDOOH Video June 19, 2017 by Super User Here’s my chat with Adrian from DailyDOOH, at the NEC stand last week in Orlando. There is a full archive of his chats with various people here …
Data-Driven NYC Taxi Top Displays Tout EWR Being Faster Ride Than JFK June 19, 2017 by Super User United Airlines has a data-driven digital OOH campaign going on New York taxicab toppers that’s designed to dispel the myth that taking a cab from the city to JFK, to fly out of there, is faster than traveling to Newark Airport (which has the airport code EWR). While JFK lays claim to being New York’s …
Some 100 Projectors Used For Immersive Art Experience In Provence June 18, 2017 by Super User This is a pretty fantastic example of projection mapping done indoors – about 100 video projectors generating images over an area of more than 7,000 sq.m., including the floor, at the Carrières de Lumières, an immersive art gallery in Provence, France. The exhibition runs until January 2018, celebrating the art of Bosch, Brueghel and Arcimboldo. The exhibit …
InfoComm 2017: Day One Impressions June 15, 2017 by Super User It was readily apparent to just about anyone that the big InfoComm pro AV trade show down in Orlando this week would include a lot of exhibit hall real estate filled up by LED display manufacturers. But I’ve never seen as many of them as I saw here – not even at the version of …
LG Launches Low-Rez See-Through LED Film at InfoComm June 14, 2017 by Super User LG is formally launching a transparent LED film that’s meant to stick on things like windows and dividers and offer low-rez graphics. The tech is being launched for the North American market this week at InfoComm in Orlando, but was shown several months ago at ISE in Amsterdam. Says a press release: The LG Transparent …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts – Eric Henry, Tightrope Media Systems June 14, 2017 by Super User Tightrope Media Systems has been around the digital signage business for 20 years, and if you’ve heard of the company, there’s a decent chance you thought, like me, that the Minneapolis firm was a broadcast software company that also did a signage CMS. Turns out it was the other way around, and Tightrope started as a digital …
E Ink’s Programmable Surfaces Gets More Colors June 13, 2017 by Super User E Ink has added more colors to that programmable Prism technology that can be used to make things like feature walls in lobbies changeable. The Taiwan-based company says Prism will be available in seven paint-like colors that can switch out even using just a battery. Says the company: Integrated with traditional architectural materials, E Ink …
NanoLumens Files Patent Infringement Lawsuits Against Four US Competitors June 12, 2017 by Super User Atlanta LED manufacturer NanoLumens has filed four patent infringement lawsuits against competing companies it says are marketing knock-offs of its flexible LED display panels, called nixels. The federal court lawsuits have been filed in the US head office states of four companies: PixelFLEX, of Nashville, Tennessee; InFiLED USA, of Marietta, Georgia; DetaiLED Solutions, of Marietta, …
NanoLumens Adds Infrared-based Touch To Fine Pitch LED Displays June 9, 2017 by Super User Atlanta-based LED manufacturer NanoLumens has added infra-red edge sensors to make its narrow pixel pitch LED walls interactive, if needed. “It used to be extremely difficult to add interactive elements to LED displays, but recent technological breakthroughs have made it much more feasible, practical, and affordable,” says NanoLumens CEO Rick Cope. “Our touch technology is fully …
