Video: Watch How Dutch Start-Up’s Smart Glass Doubles Up To Produce Dynamic Visuals July 8, 2024 by Super User The Dutch start-up VideowindoW is going at the idea of turning windows into displays in a very different way from other manufacturers who have screens that attach LED arrays to glass or even embed the LEDs between laminated layers of glass. VideowindoW is instead mostly about a smart version of glare control, for big swaths …
Wallboard Acquires Keywest Technology And Unified Brand July 8, 2024 by Super User The CMS software and solutions firm Wallboard, which has offices in both Dallas and outside Budapest Hungary, has announced a pair of acquisitions aimed at growing its deployed base, but also bolstering staff and skillsets. Wallboard has acquired the Kansas City-area company Keywest Technology and Unified Brand, which operates out of Phoenix. “These acquisitions represent a major …
LG Follows Samsung’s Move Into Pro Versions Of IoT Sensors, Via Majority Buy Of Homey July 5, 2024 by Super User LG has a funny way of mirroring developments by its Korean electronics rival Samsung, and that appears to be happening again as LG has acquired 80% of a Dutch IoT platform that offers the same kind of sensors ecosystem as Samsung’s Smartthings. Samsung has recently added a pro version of its consumer-centric, and now LG …
Nordics CMS Software M&A: Sweden’s PLAYipp Acquires Norway’s Databeat July 5, 2024 by Super User A pair of small to mid-sized digital signage software providers in the Nordics region have consolidated, with Sweden’s PLAYipp acquiring Databeat, a software provider based in Norway. The M&A activity is backed by PLAYipp’s “software growth investor” Monterro. From PR: This strategic partnership marks a milestone in PLAYipp’s growth mission, enhancing our capacity to deliver …
Ancient Roman City In Turkiye Revived In Projection-Mapped Immersive Museum July 5, 2024 by Super User An ancient Roman trading city is revived and explored using more than 120 projectors at an immersive museum in Selçuk, Türkiye that opened in mid 2023. The Ephesus Experience Museum looks at what life was like in Ephesus before it was largely destroyed in an earthquake in 262. From PR about the immersive experience: Ancient …
Lift And Learn Retail Application Cleverly Doubles Up As Stock Level Counter July 4, 2024 by Super User People who have been in this industry for many years are likely amused, as I have been, when software and solutions companies demonstrate what they call new and innovative “lift and learn” applications for retail with the same kind of enthusiasm they’d have if they’d invented fire or figured out cold fusion. On-screen content triggered …
UPshow Acquired By Sports And Entertainment Platform; Back-Of-House Tools Being Spun Out As Independent Entity July 2, 2024 by Super User Chicago-based UPshow, which does what it calls on-premise entertainment and performance marketing platform for venues, has been acquired by a media platform that distributes live sports and entertainment content to the same kinds of venues where UPshow has built a footprint for almost a decade. Founded just last year, NYC-based EverPass Media launched initially as …
UltraLeap Halving Workforce; Selling Off Hand-Tracking And Focusing On Haptics Interactive Tech July 2, 2024 by Super User The UK firm focused on enabling touchless, mid-air hand and gesture controls using ultrasound waves and tracking has confirmed it is halving its workforce and offloading one of its two main lines of business. Ultraleap, based in Bristol, told staff last week it was having to do staff reductions because of what was described as …
ZetaDisplay Reaches Framework Deal To Update Screen Network On Stockholm’s Airport Express Train System July 2, 2024 by Super User The Swedish digital signage solutions provider ZetaDisplay has announced a “multi-year exclusive framework agreement” that would see its software driving the screens on the rail cars and platforms of the express rail service that runs between central Stockholm and the city’s Arlanda international airport. This partnership, says PR, will see Arlanda express switching to ZetaDisplay’s …
Dallas-area Hospital Using One Of Those Giant Hologram-ish Displays For Telemedicine July 2, 2024 by Super User A small 84-bed acute care general hospital in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas is using one of those transparent LCD shower stall-like enclosures as a way to run real-time doctor-patient consultations, even though the patients are at a clinic 30 miles away. It is a VERY expensive variation on telemedicine – the big difference being …
