Raptors Not Reindeer Wandered Dallas Zoo Grounds Over Holidays In Projection Mapping Show January 2, 2025 by Dave Haynes If you have kids, or there’s still quite a bit of kid in you – and you happen to live in the Dallas area – that city’s zoo is winding down a projection-driven show that ran ran through the holiday season but featured raptors instead of reindeer. Semi-transparent scrim screens positioned around the oldest zoo …
The Top 10 Sixteen:Nine Posts For 2024 December 31, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s a look at the top posts from 2024 – in terms of views from readers – on Sixteen:Nine. If there is any clarity from this top 10 list, it is that reader interests are all over the place 😉 Clever Campaign Turns Blackened Ballpark LED Display Into Marketing Gold Changi Re-Opens Terminal 2 With …
EDM Artist Anyma’s Stand At Las Vegas Sphere Raises Content Game For Acts That Might Follow December 31, 2024 by Dave Haynes Much has been written about the visuals developed for live concerts at Sphere in Las Vegas – everything from amazed (Phish) to underwhelmed (Eagles). But the first electronic act to play the giant LED clad ball clearly put a huge amount of focus on the visual experience. The American DJ Anyma is in the midst …
Executive Retreat Interviews Part 1: Bluefin, OpenEye, Korbyt and SageNet December 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes Just prior to DSE, I was in Palm Springs to take part in an executive retreat for the digital signage crowd, organized and run by my friends at invidis, the consultancy and publishing company based in Munich. They have done these events in Europe for a few years now: an invitation-based two-day gathering that is …
Nordic Hotel Operator Evaluating Transparent LCD-Driven AI Avatars To Handle Check-ins And Guest Questions December 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes A hotel operator in Scandinavia is evaluating one of those life-sized transparent LCD display systems and an AI-driven avatar to check in guests when no front desk staff is around to process registration and hand over room access cards. The AI greeter was first launched last month at the Aiden by Best Western Lolland hotel …
US Cable And Media Giant Comcast Expands Digital Signage Capabilities By Adding New Tech Partnerships December 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes The US media and telecoms giant Comcast has added a pair of what it calls “new collaborations” with tech firms that are intended to expand its capabilities as a digital signage solutions for targeted enterprise customers in vertical markets like healthcare, hospitality, QSR and sports and entertainment venues. Comcast Smart Solutions, which specializes in smart …
Video: Clever Creative Drives Illusions On Corner Of Changsha Office Block December 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Yaham staffer posting this on Linkedin unfortunately references this as a “naked-eye 8K 3D screen” on a building in Changsha, China, but this caught my eye because at least one of the visual illusion creative pieces running on the screen does a nice job of working with the physical features of the building. The …
Samsung-Incubated Startup 10kM’s AI-powered Digital Signage Solutions To Be Showcased At CES December 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes I have this perhaps old-fashioned attitude that the quality and functionality of a software company’s website offers some clues to the quality and functionality of that company’s products and services, so I am not overly enthused by a Korean generative AI content start-up Samsung is showcasing soon at CES in Las Vegas. The Seoul firm …
UK Touch Tech Manufacturer Needs To Sell Or Wind Down As Sales Have Stalled December 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes Unfortunate news out of the UK, with the northern England touch technology manufacturer Zytronic making it known that is looking at selling the company or even shutting down because of sluggish sales. The listed company has issued a trading update outlining how sales in the last year fell from £8.6m to £7.2m, and that there …
One Of The Bigger Outdoor LED Displays In Germany Just Went Up, Attached To A High Rise With Velcro December 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes We are well past the days of getting excited or intrigued about big displays being attached to the sides of buildings, as that sort of thing is now commonplace, but this DOOH installation in Dusseldorf, Germany is interesting because of how engineering factored in. The new 70 square meter display is on the top of …
