Specialty PC Maker Azulle Touts “Elite” NUC Alternative For Digital Signage, Kiosks August 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes Azulle, a specialty PC manufacturer out of the Miami area, has started marketing a small form-factor PC touted as an alternative to Intel’s Next Unit of Compute design. Intel recently announced it was discontinuing its direct manufacture and marketing of NUC PCs, but Taiwan’s Asus has an agreement to make and support the NUC product …
Rear Projection Set-Up Pretty Nicely Puts A Person In NYC On A Conference Panel In Atlanta August 9, 2023 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting variation of technology efforts to get a speaker or panelist at a business event, without asking the person to travel – a rear-projection set-up on a stage that reasonably nicely integrates with the stage and the other people on it. Emory University’s Goizueta Business School used a set-up from Toronto-based ARHT Media …
3D Display Firms Leia, Dimenco Merge To Create Cross-Platform Solution August 8, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Silicon Valley technology firm Leia, which is focused on 3D display hardware and content services, has acquired the Dutch specialty display manufacturer Dimenco, whose main product is also all about 3D. This strategic move, says PR on the deal, unites the capabilities of two leaders in the 3D market, set to accelerate mainstream adoption …
Wireless Screen Sharing, Digital Signage Solution Deployed At 500+ WeWork Locations August 8, 2023 by Dave Haynes Workplace has proven to be one of the most active and opportune vertical markets to chase for pure-play digital signage solutions and software firms, but they are confronted by the interesting challenge of seeing competing solutions from companies that mostly operate outside the digital signage industry. In most cases, they’re companies that have other technology …
Digital Signage Services Demand Plummeted; Hardware Sales Slowed In First Half Of 2023: Survey August 8, 2023 by Dave Haynes Munich-based consulting and publishing firm invidis has released the latest results from the digital signage and Digital Out Of Home “Business Climate Index” it recently revived, suggesting that the first half of 2023 saw demand plummet for digital signage services and sales slow for hardware.”Only with a lot of luck can the industry make up …
New E-Book Aimed At Opportunity, Challenges Of Running In-Store Display Side Of Retail Media Networks August 8, 2023 by Dave Haynes There are a LOT of blog posts and white papers out there going into the opportunity and impacts of retail media networks, but the great majority of them come at it from the angles of online and mobile, with in-store displays and messaging often not getting much more than a mention or a small section …
Vistar Media Pushes Out Free White Paper On Optimizing DOOH Ad Campaigns August 8, 2023 by Dave Haynes The programmatic DOOH ad platform Vistar Media has made available a new white paper designed to underline the importance of optimizing creative for out-of-home advertising, and provide campaign planning strategies and operational best practices, The paper – “Mind the Gap: Bridging the Gap Between Technology & Creative in DOOH” – is a free download that …
JD Sports Pairs AR Virtual Try-On Solution With Big Video Wall In Two US Stores August 4, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is an AR mirror set-up used in a couple of U.S. locations (New York Times Square and Chicago State Street) for the retailer JD Sports, which sells guess what. Virtual try-on mirrors have been around for ages, and have improved by leaps and bounds in terms of the way they work and look. This …
Japanese Railway Auto-Translates Customer Queries As Chats On Transparent Screens In Station August 3, 2023 by Dave Haynes A Japanese passenger railway has started testing a service that auto-translates conversations at customer information counters – enabling foreign travellers with little or no Japanese to get answers returned in their language on a transparent screen that sits between the railway staffer and the traveler. Seibu Railway is testing what it calls polyglot simultaneous translation …
Upgraded Munich Commuter Rail Lines To Get Some 15,000 Screens August 3, 2023 by Dave Haynes German language content partner invidis is reporting today how the commuter trains in its home city of Munich will be upgraded in roughly five years with scores of stretched LCD displays and two-by-two video walls. The new S-Bahn trains, made by Siemens, are scheduled to go into service with passengers from the end of 2028. …
