Projects: National Sept. 11 Museum Upgrades Digital Signage With BrightSign’s 4K Tech April 10, 2017 by Dave Haynes The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in lower Manhattan recently overhauled its digital signage infrastructure, adding in a stack of BrightSign players. The little purple boxes now power about a third of the museum’s digital signage set-up, feeding informational and interactive content to roughy 30 displays located throughout all seven floors of the subterranean museum. Hal …
Quiet Posting Week Ahead April 9, 2017 by Dave Haynes I have some posts already scheduled to run, but this will likely be a quiet week for posting. I’m on the other side the planet for InfoComm China – a speaking gig – and not totally sure how much time I will have, or how easy or hard it will be, to post content. I …
How To Impress Your Audience With An Interactive Video Wall April 7, 2017 by Dave Haynes Guest Post: Tim Griffin, Userful Video walls are everywhere and companies are looking for creative ways to use them. Gone are the days of slapping together a grid of a few displays and playing content around them. Customers are looking for artistic layouts, interactive content, dynamic content switching, immersive experiences, and more. All too often, …
Uber Open Sources Its Data Visualization Framework April 7, 2017 by Dave Haynes Via TechCrunch If your company is looking into data visualization, and has developers eager to have a run at it, here’s a pretty sophisticated open source development framework that Uber – yeah, that Uber – has made available. The data visualization framework used internally by the ride-share company to do things like visualize customer experiences was made …
Projects: Going From Chalkboards To Digital Saves Bar 180-Plus Labor Hours A Year April 7, 2017 by Dave Haynes A little bar and restaurant down the highway from me in Stratford, Ontario has worked out that putting in digital signage displays has saved them 182 hours in labor costs annually. Until a big reno in 2013, Bentley’s Bar, Inn & Restaurant did their daily menu specials, beer boards and martini boards all by hand …
DSE May Be Over But The Trade Show And Conference Season Is Anything But … April 6, 2017 by Dave Haynes Digital Signage Expo is over but trade show and conference season is anything but over. There are many events in the coming three months that touch or focus on digital signage, among them: InfoComm China – There’s a track on digital signage at the event next week in Beijing. I know because I am speaking …
BMO Uses Flip-Disc Tech For Mobile App-Driven Wish Fountain April 6, 2017 by Dave Haynes In an odd twist, here’s a second post in a week about flip-disc technology being used as an alternative to digital screens. The Bank of Montreal – one of the big five national banks in Canada – is celebrating its 200th year in business in 2017, and one of the things it is doing to mark that …
Projects: Swedish Payments Company Visualizes Business In Real Time April 6, 2017 by Dave Haynes I’m not seeing as much data visualization as I might have expected by now on large video walls – given how great dataviz creative can solve the dual problems of keeping content fresh while also controlling content budgets. But here’s a great example of dataviz in action in the lobby of Stockholm-based online payment company …
Projects: Louisiana Wellness Center Spans 12K Video Across Three Walls April 5, 2017 by Dave Haynes The new Education Center at the Wellness Center of Thibodaux Regional, in Thibodaux, Louisiana, greets visitors with a 17-minute video that showcases the native beauty of Louisiana across three 4K video walls. The multi-screen video experience developed by VisionQuest Design & Production of Atlanta features nature scenes, landmarks, plantations, and the Bayou, among other local …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Jerome Moeri, CEO of Navori April 5, 2017 by Dave Haynes I’ve known Jerome Moeri, the CEO of Navori, for more than a decade, but we’ve never had much of a chance to have a good long chat. That changed at ISE a few weeks ago, when we slotted half an hour to talk about how the Swiss software company got started and where it is …
