Sphere’s Owners Partner With Abu Dhabi Government To Put A Vegas-Scale Version In That Emirate October 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Most observers will have long ago concluded that if another version of the Las Vegas Sphere was going to be built, it would likely be in the Gulf region – where big-money Wow Factors projects are regularly announced and often built. Sphere Entertainment, the live entertainment company that owns Sphere, has announced intentions to bring …
Telecom’s Tech Arm Makes Immersive LED Cube A Main Feature Of New Flagship Space In Madrid October 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes Telefónica Tech, the technology arm of the telecom giant Telefónica, has added an LED-driven immersive cube experience to its new flagship venue in Madrid, the Espacio Movistar. The cube is a five-sided installation that enables 360-degree immersive experiences using visual effects and surround sound. Visitors enter through a big stainless steel portal. The set-up uses …
Israeli Start-up Demo’ing Full Color Highway Billboard Tech That Uses Almost No Power October 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes An Israeli company is doing a demo next week in New York of billboard technology that you might think is what would happen if color e-paper and electro-mechanical technologies snuck off to a hotel room and ended up with a baby. The product developed by KA-Dynamic Color uses a distinct type of reflective display tech …
Spreading Festive Cheer And Driving Sales With In-Store Digital Signage Technologies: Spectrio October 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes SPONSORED CONTENT By Ron Levac, Spectrio The holiday season is a critical time for retailers – with the period between October and the end of December often called the golden quarter for sales. A successful holiday season can make a retailer’s year, while a poor one can lead to losses, cash flow problems, and excess …
Fans Could See Themselves As Adele On Giant LED Screen During Singer’s Munich Concert Residency October 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes Singer Adele’s month-long run at a pop-up concert venue in Munich this summer attracted a lot of attention for the sheer scale of the very wide LED backdrop, but the show also had a clever social media/AR thing happening that allowed fans to have their faces swapping out the star performer’s face. They did that …
Walmart Using Digital Menus To Market New In-Store Pet Services Centers October 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes US retailing giant Walmart has started opening what it calls pet services centers, offering what amounts to one-stop shopping for routine pet care needs and using big digital signage displays behind the reception desk to relay what’s available. The stores within the bigger store offer in-person and virtual veterinary care, pet prescription delivery, grooming services, …
Valuable Reading: QSR Magazine’s Annual Drive-Thru Report Is Out October 7, 2024 by Dave Haynes If you sell into the QSR sector – whether that’s hardware or software – this is valuable (and free) reading: the annual QSR Drive-Thru report produced by QSR magazine, which focuses on guess what. The report is based on site visits at the biggest US chains to generate metrics on such things as speed of …
Vertiseit Acquires Visual Art; Fast Becoming One Of Europe’s Largest Digital Signage Solutions Companies October 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes Consolidation in the digital signage solutions market in Europe is continuing with word, this morning, that Vertiseit is taking over its Swedish competitor Visual Art, with the Stockholm-based company continuing to operate as an independent company under the Vertiseit umbrella. The transaction was funded in multiple ways, the most interesting one being financing from Bonnier …
Kitcast Goes Enterprise With V2 Of Its Apple TV-centric CMS Platform October 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes I get emails all the time from software companies saying they’ve released version 3.1.2a of their platform and I tend to ignore them … because if I write about one, I kinda feel obligated to write about them all. Which would consume my days and see readers slipping into comas However, I will write about …
Giant 62-Foot Tall W Made From LED Greets Visitors To WWE’s New HQ October 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes The ability to create shapes that aren’t just flat rectangles has always been a big selling advantage of LED displays, and that advantage really gets pushed here with a truly giant 62-foot high letter W made from custom LED cabinets in the new Stamford, CT headquarters of World Wrestling Entertainment. The fully custom display is …
