Dubai Maybe Getting Its Own Version Of An Immersive Sphere, But It’s A Big Maybe September 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes The CEO and President of MGM Resorts has floated the idea of a big immersive sphere attraction going up in Dubai, but there are several differences to the Sphere switched on last year in Las Vegas. First, it would have seating for 300 people, while Sphere in Las Vegas can hold 18,000-plus. Second, it would …
U.S. Congressional Committee Chair Urging Government To Blacklist Big Chinese Display Manufacturers BOE, Tianma September 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Michigan congressman who chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is encouraging the U.S. government to blacklist a pair of giant Chinese display manufacturers over concerns that using display tech from that country for advanced US military systems presents a tangible security and supply chain risk. Congressman John Moolenaar has sent …
Ambitious New Pop-Up Store On London’s Oxford Street Borrows On Nearby Outernet London’s Visual Scale September 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes Something that might be described as a pop-up retail version of the immersive, LED-driven Outernet London attraction is opening soon just a couple of blocks away, on the UK capital’s busiest high street. Future Stores will fill the Oxford Street-facing ground floor of a commercial block, using big entryways and curtain wall glass to give …
Physical Stores Next Big Canvas For Media: Acosta Group Research September 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes While online and mobile have received most of the attention and money from brands when it comes to the idea and execution of retail media network, the big retail-centric consulting and services firm Acosta Group suggests physical stores and the screens in them represent the next major retail media channel for brands. “The physical store …
LED Curtain Creates Ambient Three-Dimensional Low-Rez Visuals In Paris Concert Hall Lobby September 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes A three-dimensional display has to have some dimension and volume to be more than marketing 3D – though lots of 2D products trick the eye with transparency and clever creative. Here’s a very low-rez 3D display related to the beauty products brand CLARINS, a 360° art installation in the lobby of the Salle Pleyel concert …
Portuguese Youth Center Nicely Integrates Ribbon-Style Touch Into Center’s History Wall September 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes This an interesting approach to doing an interactive video wall for a scenario in which budget restraints would almost certainly come into play – a touch-enabled stretch display on an otherwise printed wall display that provides a community youth center’s history and milestones. Floor to ceiling video walls are great, but the costs can be …
Watch: A Giant Butterfly With LED Wings September 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is not what I’d call digital signage, bur it is using LED to offer up something that is the definition of experiential – a giant butterfly with some 39,000 LEDs that flaps its wings as people below use an oversized porch swing. The 26 x 14 foot butterfly is 15 feet above the ground. …
Storied Kentucky College Basketball Program Using That LED In Glass Dynamic Surface For 2024-25 Season Launch September 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes In what is likely a preview of what may grow increasingly common among deeper-pocketed, alumni-supported programs, the storied University of Kentucky basketball program will introduce its 2024-25 teams next month on one of those multimedia LED sports floors out of Germany. An ASB GlassFloor – the same tech used for the NBA All-Star Skills night …
The Booze Sounds Disgusting, But The Projection Mapping Campaign For It Is Great September 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes The drink concoction makes me cringe and I have no idea about the celebrities involved (Loose Women star GK Barry???), but what I can say is I like how an almost guerilla-style projection is being used for a campaign surrounding an experiential gala run last week in Manchester, UK. The projections were part of a …
Vancouver Airport Upgrades Include New Digital Gateway At Screening Checkpoint September 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes Canada is so freaking big it is easier and faster, based on my living way out on the east coast, to get to Europe than it is to Vancouver, BC, which is way on the west coast. So … I have not been through Vancouver’s airport in ages, and certainly haven’t seen in person some …
