Guest Post: The evolution of digital signage is underway October 28, 2010 by Jason CreminsIn the digital signage sector, the evolution of technology in one month is the equivalent to one million years in human development. Sounds a bit much, I know, but stay with me here. Cynics in the tech gadget world smirked when the iPhone came along in 2007, derisively calling it the “Jesus Phone” and scoffing …
Is it one 330-inch display or a wall of 60s? October 26, 2010 by Dave HaynesFrom Display Blog, via Display Alliance News, word of a massive display wall planned for a Tokyo rail station. The big questions. This is being hyped by Sharp or someone as a 330-inch display. But when it is 18 60-inch displays all tiled neatly together, is it? For what little my opinion matters, it’s a …
Pro hockey's opener takes over LED boards in Toronto's Dundas Square October 26, 2010 by Dave HaynesNOTE – Aaron Campus is an industry friend. Over lunch the other day, he related his recent experiences with a live event that used digital signage on giant LED boards. I asked if he’d do me a favour and write it up. The NHL started its season in style this year on October 7th with …
Putting the farm into digital signage content production October 13, 2010 by Dave HaynesA couple of recent presentations I’ve done talked a little about cloud computing, and I used content rendering farms as a good example of using web-based services to get work done without investing in infrastructure. With one exception, no one I was in front of had ever heard of rendering farms. And I really hadn’t …
Toronto's Union Station Lit Up With 3-D Projections October 6, 2010 by Dave HaynesI’m a big fan of projection technology because it has the capability to make a project, well, big. Toronto has an annual contemporary art celebration around the city called Nuit Blanche, and a highlight of the most recent event was an all-night projected installation on the facade of the city’s main rail station. The digital …
HTML 5 ain't ready just yet October 6, 2010 by Dave HaynesA lot of people who’d like to shift away from Flash as a playback engine for digital signage – worried about vague licensing issues and playback stability – have been getting excited about the prospects for HTML 5 to mature and take the place of Flash. You can already find HTML 5 video players ion …
Interactive projection/kiosk promos new Nissan Leaf September 28, 2010 by Dave HaynesThe guys at Spyeglass in Minneapolis sent along a release with pix and video of a project that uses their projection film and interactive touch foil. Through the reseller, RTT, USA Inc., and a pile of other companies doing different but related stuff, the projection film was part of a roving promo program for Nissan’s …
Samsung shows off its smart TV widgets (from rAVe) September 27, 2010 by Dave HaynesFrom Sixteen:Nine’s content partner rAVe [Publications], a shaky (but stick with it as it settles out) video demo-ing Samsung’s Smart TV gadgets and general capabilities at last week’s CEDIA show. The webinar I did last week discussed widgets and gadgets and how they can start to make an IPTV loook more and more like a …
The screen-smartphone connection, sans QR codes? September 27, 2010 by Dave HaynesThis is a French company, Wizup, that has developed technology that operates a little like apps that listen for, recognize and identify music, but more broadly based. The video shows how a smartphone could recognize video or something on a poster and deliver extended information down to the phone. In theory, this would work well …
EnVu lighting up malls floors, bankrolled by Stratacache September 20, 2010 by Dave HaynesTwo distinct impressions. 1 – I’ve never seen anyone but little kids pay more more than fleeting attention to interactive floor projections when I have seen them in malls and mega-casinos. 2 – Chris Riegel is no dummy. So when I read this morning DailyDOOH that EnVu (which I did know about) was bankrolled by …