Seoul Interactive Wall Blends Projection Mapping With Conductive Ink September 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is a fun interactive wall that blends projection mapping with conductive ink – done back in 2020 at an art center in Seoul. You can see how someone trying out the Netmarble Game Academy exhibition is seeing visuals that just arrive or are highlighted by clever projection mapping from a ceiling projector. You can …
How A Dutch Firm Uses Digital Signage And Interactive Displays To Sell High-End Garage Doors September 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes We’re conditioned to seeing digital signage into bricks and mortar stores selling things like apparel, beauty products and vehicles, but here’s a digitally-integrated showroom for a company that sells garage doors. Different Doors sells high-end, custom garage doors and it built pro AV technology – like digital signs and interactive, triggered screens – into its …
Touch-free Capability Added To Those Airport Restroom Survey Displays September 8, 2023 by Dave Haynes If you travel much you have probably been through an airport and seen a little screen at the exit to restrooms/toilets/water closets/add a new name here that ask users to rate the cleanliness of the facilities. Just as it seems odd that people are asked to pull on door handles after they’ve been encouraged to …
Color E-Paper Matured To Point It’s Used In Art Exhibitions September 6, 2023 by Dave Haynes One of the knocks, historically, with color e-paper has been how a filter was added to the hardware layers that make up a display, to make color possible … but in the process muting what people see. So a deep red looked more like a pastel red on the digital posters. That’s been overcome, as …
Spokane’s New Rapid Transit Line Relays Real-Time GPS Location/Stops To Riders September 5, 2023 by Dave Haynes The kind of live positioning visuals motorists routinely use for getting around are being applied to transit rider information screens in Spokane, WA, using technology from Nebraska-based Nanonation. The Spokane Transit Authority has launched a real-time on-bus display system on its rapid transit fleet that relays accurate location information to paying riders. Unlike most transit …
Almost 30 Christie Laser Projectors Used To Bathe New Toronto Immersive Venue In Visuals September 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes Those are Christie projectors being used at the new Toronto location of the immersive experience company Illuminarium. The new venue in Toronto’s Distillery Historic District, an old Victorian-era warehouse quarter near downtown, uses almost 30 Christie RGB laser projectors to bathe the 13,500 square foot space in visuals. From PR: Illuminarium at The Distillery District …
Screenly Launches Headless-Serverless Edge Apps Solution Tuned To 3rd-Party Software Developer Needs August 31, 2023 by Dave Haynes London-based CMS software firm Screenly has launched a variation on its platform called Edge Apps, expanding on the idea of headless CMS solutions that use the bones of a platform but leave the presentation and transactional layer to the customer’s software team. CEO Viktor Petersson walked me through what he was planning when when we …
Retail Analytics Firm VSBLTY Evolves Digital Cooler Line; Has LOI To Buy Shelf Nine Grocery Screen Network August 30, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Philly retail analytics firm VSBLTY continues to operate in ways seemingly very different than competing firms that use AI and machine learning technology to measure and log consumer activity – growing out a transparent chiller display door product and acquiring a grocery-focused ad screen network. The company has been marketing transparent LCD cooler doors …
Global Pro AV Industry Forecast To Grow At 5.6% CAGR Through 2028, When It Will Be $400B Business August 29, 2023 by Dave Haynes The pro AV industry is forecast to add nearly $100 billion in revenue over the next five years, reaching $402 billion in 2028, according to AVIXA’s 2023 Industry Outlook and Trends Analysis (IOTA). “This year’s update to the pro AV industry forecasts shows a return to a rate of growth that would have been considered …
CMS Software Firm Rise Vision Adds Managed Media Player Hardware Subscription To Offer August 29, 2023 by Dave Haynes The CMS software firm Rise Vision has gone into the hardware business, introducing a bundled subscription offer aimed mainly at the education sector that includes a fully managed media player. “Rise Vision manages the media player software, provides technical support, sends out advanced replacements if an issue can’t be fixed over the phone, and upgrades …
