Transparent LCD Adds Virtual Information Kiosk At Riyadh’s Airport November 28, 2024 by Super User Here’s one of those transparent LCD virtual presence set-ups being used at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s big airport, promoting Virgin Connect eSims and answering questions, using AI. It hits me as very expensive overkill, given what it does, but it does offer bling and buzz in a part of the world that especially likes its bling …
Retail Media: Mediamarkt and Saturn Launch In-Store Ads November 28, 2024November 28, 2024 by Antonia Hamberger Nearly 400 Mediamarkt and Saturn stores in Germany are introducing retail media. The in-store ads complement the existing online advertising options and will be rolled out across Europe.
Icelandic Software Firm Launches “Hardware-Free” Digital Signage Solution November 27, 2024 by Super User An Icelandic software services company called Dacoda has wrapped up two years of development work and launched a new SaaS digital signage product that borrows on streaming TV technology – with a service that runs purely off a connected smart display’s browser. Called Signital – and I haven’t sorted our how to pronounce that … …
Instagram: invidis Goes to California December 15, 2024November 27, 2024 by invidis Redaktion California, home to tech giants, the entertainment industry, and countless digital innovations, will be our focus in the coming weeks. invidis will report live from Los Angeles, Palm Springs, and Silicon Valley—on here, and even more so on Instagram.
Video: Here’s A Volumetric Display That’s Much Closer To The Pop Culture Idea Of Holograms November 27, 2024 by Super User I natter away here when specialty display companies call their transparent LD or OLED screens, Pepper’s Ghost projections or spinning LED light thingies holograms, explaining that they’re not, because while the outputs may appear to float in a space, those visuals are two-dimensional and don’t have depth or dimension. Here, though, is a genuine 3D …
Scala Opens First Of What It Says Will Be Several Satellite Showrooms Across Europe November 27, 2024 by Super User There’s nothing unusual about digital signage CMS software companies having showrooms, but they’re almost always located somewhere in the head office building. The CMS software firm Scala does that, with a showroom space in its European head office in the Netherlands, but now it is also opening showrooms in regional locations – the first one …
Betting Shop Chain Switches In-Store Digital Signage Set-Up To Amino’s Streaming Solution November 27, 2024 by Super User Paddy Power, the well-known retail betting shop chain in the UK and Ireland, has taken the interesting step of cutting over from a traditional servers and end-point PCs set-up for its in-store digital signage network to one using streaming media players. UK-based Amino’s H200 4K media players are now being used in more than 500 …
Adidas: OoH in its Most Creative Form November 28, 2024November 27, 2024 by Florian Rotberg Adidas introduced a regionally exclusive running shoe collection in the UAE: the Adizero Desert Runner collection. For the launch, artist David Popa created a 100-meter-wide anamorphic artwork on the sand dunes. Although the campaign may appear fake at first glance, the 3D billboard is not a CGI creation.
PPDS Gets A Deployment Of Its Lovely, Pricey E Ink Tableaux Screens … But Just Four Units November 26, 2024 by Super User Color e-paper is great tech, but prices likely have to come down by at least half – or more – before the industry is likely to see broad adoption. A good case in point is an announcement from PPDS (aka Philips) announcing a deployment of its E Ink-based Philips Tableaux displays at a historic restaurant and …
Trump Plans To Impose New Tariffs On Imported Electronics Could Chill US Pro AV Sector November 26, 2024 by Florian Rotberg Guest post: Florian Rotberg, Invidis Despite the current USMCA free trade agreement that Donald Trump signed with Canada and Mexico during his first term in office, the president-elect plans to impose new tariffs of 25 percent on all imports from Mexico and Canada, and an additional 10 percent on all imports from China. The newly-announced …
