Cranky Virtual T-Rex Greets Visitors To Down Under Dino Museum Show August 29, 2024 by Super User The Melbourne Museum in Australia is using three big transparent LCDs tiled side-by-side to create the hologram-ish illusion that a rather cranky 66-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus named Victoria is greeting visitors to a new dinosaur exhibition. Victoria the T. rex is an interactive exhibition starring the real fossil skeleton of a 66-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus named Victoria. The show …
Eyefactive Adds User Analytics To Interactive Platform August 28, 2024 by Super User The German interactive touchscreen software provider eyefactive has added analytics to its multi-touch content management platform, giving AppSuite customers detailed information about usage behavior on their interactive software projects. Now, says the Hamburg company, all user interactions on the device can be recorded and evaluated in various business intelligence tools such as Microsoft PowerBi or …
Samsung Shows R&D Prototype Of A MicroLED Display That Can Bulge And Bend August 27, 2024 by Super User Samsung’s R&D team showed off a prototype last week at a Korean display nerds conference of a microLED display that is stretchable, capable of bulging by as much as 25% more than its normal size and state. The demo was at the International Meeting on Information Display (iMID 2024) conference, which looks like a more …
Houston’s PickleJar Enhances The Digital Signage Toolset In Its Broader Live Music Venue Tech Offer August 26, 2024 by Super User A Houston company is going at the model of putting revenue-generating digital signage in bars from a different angle – making it part of a broader software and managed services model for bars that operate as live music venues, that includes e-commerce engines for ticketing and tips for performers. PickleJar Entertainment Group says an enhanced …
New Cosm LED-Driven Shared Reality Venues Put Sports Fans In Primo Virtual Seats At Live Games August 22, 2024 by Super User Immersive is one of the more abused and misapplied pro AV terms out there, but a fast-growing entertainment company in LA is opening up what it calls shared reality venues that look very much like they genuinely immerse customers in viewing experiences – whether that’s live sports or custom-shot and edited films. The first location …
Chick-fil-A Opens Atlanta-Area Drive-Thru-Only Store With No Pre-Sell Or Menu Displays August 21, 2024 by Super User It’s a bit premature to see a newly-opened Chick-fil-A drive-thru restaurant as a worrying trend, but a new two-story, four-lane operation that’s opened in the general orbit of Atlanta is certainly noteworthy for the near or total absence of the promo and drive-thru menu displays that are typical in the North American fast food business. …
A Mind-Wobbling 3,357 FIDS Screens Being Upgraded At Istanbul’s Mega-Airport August 21, 2024 by Super User A staggering 3,357 55-inch LCD flight information displays are being deployed around Istanbul’s huge international airport over the next three years, evidently replacing what went in when the airport was built and then opened almost six years ago. It is more of an upgrade than a swap, with Vestel replacing the screens it put in …
German Pro Basketball Club Makes Its Home Court A Giant Dynamic LED Video Floor August 21, 2024 by Super User Sports playing surfaces that are made of laminated glass and animated by LEDs have been demonstrated at special events all the way up to the skills challenges during the NBA’s all-star weekend, but never used as a permanent playing surface for professional leagues … until now. Sixteen:Nine’s German content partners at invidis have a post …
Solutions Provider’s New Blue Square X Spin-Out To Lead With Creative Thinking On LED Video Wall Jobs August 20, 2024 by Super User Many, many times, I have heard directly or related by industry friends some baffling stories about big budget LED video wall projects being budgeted, procured and built – and as the walls were ready to switch on, the backers asked straight-faced questions about content, as in: “Sooo … what do you suggest we run on …
Screenfeed Debuts No-Code Calendars App For Workplaces And Events-Driven Venues August 15, 2024 by Super User Screenfeed has launched a new app that enables its users to reflect meetings and events calendars on screens around a venue, without taking on a full meeting room signs software and/or hardware platform, or enabling that functionality in a digital signage CMS. The new Screenfeed Calendars app syncs with other calendars and uses selected elements …
