McDonald’s Ending AI-Driven, Drive-Thru Voice Ordering Trial With IBM June 19, 2024 by Super User While there is no end of buzz about AI and its ability to take over and optimize some human tasks, one of the world’s largest and most influential quick service restaurant chains is lapsing atrial it was running that used AI for automated order-taking in its drive-thru lanes. McDonald’s has told franchisees it is shutting …
Sphere Hosts Its First Corporate Event, For HPE’s Discover Conference June 19, 2024 by Super User This would have cost a couple of bucks … The Sphere in Las Vegas has so far been used by a series of beloved baby boomer rock bands for concerts, and also as a high-end cinema running a film shot specifically for the venue. But it was only a matter of time before some deep-pocketed …
rAVe Videos Help Backfill What I Somehow Missed At InfoComm, Like A Godzilla LCD June 19, 2024 by Super User North Carolina-based publisher and promotions agency rAVe Publications once again had a small army of smartphone-wielding twenty-somethings in purple Ts swarming the two halls of InfoComm, shooting usually quick and seriously unscripted videos at all the stands of last week’s show. They edit and post those photos during and mostly in the days after the …
Big Nike Stores In Europe Use Gesture-Sensing LED Walls To Market High-Tech Apparel Line June 18, 2024 by Super User Nike is using big interactive LED display walls, gesture sensing cameras and interactive software to market its Dri-Fit apparel at three of its big-city, flagship-y stores during the UEFA European Men’s Football Championships. The set-ups are at Nike’s Paris House Of Innovation, Nike Town London and Nike Berlin Tauentzienstraße, and thank God I don’t have …
Free And Well Worth The Click: The 2024 Digital Signage Yearbook Now Available For Download June 17, 2024 by Super User There is not a lot of in-depth insights and interview work done that is specific to the digital signage sector, and much of what is available involves very limited briefs that point to paywalled material, so the annual digital signage yearbook produced by German content partner invidis is pretty much unique because of its depth …
DSF Digiscape Graphically Segments, Sorts Its Industry Members June 10, 2024 by Super User I have made, through the years, brief and abandoned runs at doing one of those graphics that try to capture and then sort by categories the ecosystem of digital signage, as it is a lot of work and almost impossible to capture. So I have praise and sympathy for my friend Jim Nista, who has …
SignageOS Continues To Broaden Supported Software And Hardware, Adding ChromeOS Integration June 10, 2024 by Super User SignageOS has added full support for Google ChromeOS and ChromeOS Flex operating systems to the vast range of hardware platforms and operating systems covered off by the Prague-based company, which focuses on middleware and device management solutions for digital signage. SignageOS says its support for ChromeOS integrates seamlessly with the Google Workspace API, allowing compatibility …
BrightSign Opens Up Its Newest Media Player To Windows 10, 11 IoT June 7, 2024 by Super User The walls have been dropping on a lot of software and hardware products in this industry to meet demands for interoperability and to work with less proprietary, more common systems, so it is interesting but maybe not surprising to learn that the industry’s dominant media player manufacturer has opened up its platform to now include …
Spectrio Plans Big Presence For InfoComm In Las Vegas, Both On Trade Show Floor And For Social Events June 7, 2024 by Super User Spectrio has a big presence planned at InfoComm next week in Las Vegas, taking customers and business partners through an exhibit hall stand filled with the latest digital signage and experiential retail technologies, and sponsoring several of the most in-demand social events during what is North America’s largest pro AV trade show. From PR: Spectrio …
Samsung ESL Spin-Off Solum Partnering With NDI On Video-Over-IP Large Format Displays June 6, 2024 by Super User A Samsung spin-off company most known for its electronic shelf labels has taken the interesting step of partnering with Sweden’s NDI to develop new large format displays that are based on video-over-IP connectivity. SOLUM, self-described as the world’s leading provider of Electronic Shelf Label and Digital Signage solutions (not so sure about that second bit, …
