Pic: Here’s A Shot Of That Almost-Endless Video Wall At Orlando Airport September 29, 2016 by Dave Haynes I wrote yesterday about the 1,500+ foot, one by very many video wall put in at Orlando’s airport, behind the airline counters/ This a pic from one of the vendors as it was going up. Won’t say who just in case that violates some PR agreement. In two words: very nice.
All Digital Signage Player Software Is Not Created Equal September 28, 2016 by TomerMann Guest Post: Jeffrey Weitzman, Navori Is all digital signage player software created equal? No. Probably 90% of the digital signage player software options on the market are based on interpreted languages, or web-based technologies. As the name implies, these languages can’t be executed directly and must to go through a software interpreter. This method is …
AT&T’s New San Francisco Flagship Includes Giant “Fluid Art” Digital Bulkhead September 28, 2016 by Dave Haynes The new store, at 1 Powell Street, is next to the popular trolley cable car turnaround area. It is AT&T’s largest retail store in the U.S., and will serve as the company’s West Coast flagship. This historic San Francisco building, built in 1908, has been restored back to its original Baroque architectural design. The store design and merchandising elements draft …
Orlando Airport Installing 1,561-foot Continuous Video Wall At Airline Counters September 28, 2016 by Dave Haynes Orlando International Airport is in the process of putting in some 700 55-inch ultra-thin-bezel videowall displays in the departures area behind airline counters to create a continuous 1,561-foot digital display wall. The airport authority is putting another 350 in double-sided overhead videowalls intended for wayfinding from the check-in areas to concessions and other services leading to security checkpoints, …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: David Levin, Four Winds Interactive September 28, 2016 by Dave Haynes This week I’m speaking with David Levin, the co-founder and a bunch of other titles at Four Winds Interactive, a content management software and services company based in Denver. David and I sat down for a chat last week in the Four Winds’ offices, a day before his company’s second annual Forward conference, which attracts …
Face Pattern Tech Used In Fun Interactive GMC Campaign September 26, 2016 by Dave Haynes The whole serve-content-based-on-who/what-is-in-front-of-a-screen thing has never really taken off for the video analytics people, but here’s a fun campaign that does a nice job with the technology. A campaign for a GM vehicle used face pattern detection technology to pick up the gender, facial expression, age and composition of the passing audience and then serve branded content …
Projects: Virtual Coloring Books On Streets Of Sydney And Melbourne September 26, 2016 by Dave Haynes If were walking a busy downtown street, would you stop at a digital poster to do some virtual coloring? That was the premise and attraction of a relaunch campaign in Australia last month for a mineral water/juice product that’s part of the Coca-Cola family. The media firm JCDecaux, Ansible, UM, Saatchi & Saatchi NZ and …
Projects: Giant Digital “StoryWall” Fills Suburban LA Cinema September 26, 2016 by Dave Haynes Cinema lobbies continue to one of the hotter environments for ambitious, big budget signature displays – with the latest evidence of that a 96-panel “StoryWall” at the ArcLight Cinemas in Sherman Oaks, California. The beast is about 50-feet wide and 15-feet high, and runs a matrix of movie posters or full-wide visuals about a specific …
Projects: Amazing Motion-Sensing LED Lobby In DC September 24, 2016 by Dave Haynes One of the speakers at the Four Winds’ conference in Denver Friday morning was referencing content strategy and design, and showed work done at the Terrell Place building in Washington, DC. Kind of amazing work. The building, actually six conjoined buildings, got a lobby refresh that turned the street-facing walls and elevator lobby into a …
Projects: Wells Fargo’s Ambient LED Columns In Denver September 24, 2016 by Dave Haynes I had a chance to nip into the Wells Fargo bank tower in downtown Denver this afternoon before heading to the airport for the (seriously, repeatedly delayed … yippee) flight back to my socialist paradise. If you recall, this is the big set of LED strips – done a bit like picket fence boards – that …
