Projects: L.A. Interactive Fan Zone November 10, 2014 by Super User The home area for the Los Angeles Kings (hockey) and Clippers (hoop) now has a new fan zone set-up aimed at driving fan engagement. The LA Interactive zone launched Saturday night at the Staples Center on the venue’s main concourse. The set-up includes a 6-by-13 foot LED video wall, an 8-by-5 foot Ultra HD video wall, three …
BenQ Reinvents Commercial Digital Signage. Ok, Sure, Uh-huh, Pffft. November 7, 2014 by Super User So one of the things I said to the crowd of architects, public space designers, creative producers and graphic designers who were at Xlab yesterday was that it was in their interest to try to stay current on emerging technologies and be sufficiently equipped to look past the hype and bullshit. And there, in my inbox …
Projects: North America’s 1st Transparent High-Rez LED Wall November 7, 2014 by Super User Vancouver integrator 10net has lit up what it’s touting as the first permanent install of China’s GWS Technology that’s a mash-up of LED curtains and glass. The install is in the head office of BlueShore Financial in North Vancouver. It uses a 5 mm pixel pitch LED array that instead of having a black block finish in …
Screenfeed Fires Up Sports Central November 4, 2014 by Super User Syndicated content packager and publisher Screenfeed is rolling out a very slick new service today called Sports Central. It’s a dynamic infographic service that goes way the heck beyond what normally gets presented as sports content for digital signage. Most digital sign networks present sports news and scores in the dreaded ticker format, or as …
Aislelabs Issues Comprehensive Study On Top Beacon Tech November 3, 2014 by Super User Toronto start-up Aislelabs, which uses a cool mash-up of WiFi and beacons for retail analytics, has issued a terrific prime and study on beacons that looks at everything from design to spoof protection. The report is called: The Hitchhikers Guide to iBeacon Hardware: A Comprehensive Report by Aislelabs. While the title suggests it is just …
Projects: World’s Biggest Hi-Rez LED Ceiling, And That’s Just The Start In Building November 3, 2014 by Super User A huge building in the southeast China city of Zhongshan has opened up with a massive focus on LED lighting. Called Star Alliance, the place is a LED lighting brand center and LED lighting effect experience showroom. The building has a huge LED canvas on the ceiling, on the top of lighting pods, and draping …
Projects: Boston’s SoWa District Gets Projection-Mapped For Illuminus October 30, 2014 by Super User A chunk of the hip, historic SoWa district of Boston was lit up last Saturday night in that city’s version of a Nuit Blanche festival, making heavy use of projection-mapping. Called Illuminus, the event was an opportunity for regional artists, designers, creative technologists, architects, performers and fabricators to push their creative chops to the limit using …
Some 300 Expected For Next Week’s Xlab In NYC October 30, 2014 by Super User About this time next week I’ll be running a panel at Xlab, a conference put on in New York by the Society for Experiential Graphic Design. It’s all about how the digital tech that’s converging to change how places – like retail and public facilities – are designed and experienced. I’m running the Make session, on the …
Kickstarter Project Aims To Reinvent The Lowly Digital Picture Frame October 29, 2014 by Super User There’s a new project on Kickstarter that’s looking for $100,000 to start producing networked digital picture frames you can’t help start thinking about as digital signage displays. These will be 15-inch units running Android 4.4, built in BLE and WiFi and a pretty fast quad-core CPU – nothing like the hunk of plastic gathering dust …
Projects: Xbox Mutants Run Amok On Streets Of Three Cities October 29, 2014 by Super User Here’s another riff on the idea of layering motion graphics into a visual of the nearby streetscape to create something of an augmented reality experience in transit shelters. This one, for a new Xbox game called Sunset Overdrive, is running San Francisco, London, and Melbourne as part of a worldwide launch. The game is set …
