Siemens Uses LED Displays Inside Factory To Explain Green Energy Tech July 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes I get a little antsy thinking about big, expensive LED displays mounted in a factory floor also hosts, probably, forklifts and rolling manlifts, but maybe the four big LEDs that greet visitors to a Siemens Energy production facility in Berlin are not in an area where those things would roll by and risk big bumps …
Big Sub 1mm LED Wall Delivers Wow And Design Tools At New SAVI Controls HW In Dallas July 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes The commercial AV controls and automation company SAVI Controls has kitted out its new HQ in Dallas with a massive video wall in an experience center designed to both wow visitors and enable life-sized virtual design efforts. The big feature, visible as partners and customers walk in the building, is a 24-foot-wide by 10-foot-high LG …
Gentilhomme’s Duverneix To Deliver DSE Keynote On Digital And Physical Storytelling July 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes Digital Signage Experience has announced its keynote speaker for its trade show and conference in early December is Thibaut Duverniex, the CEO and Creative Director of the Montreal creative shop Gentilhomme. His talk will be on Future World-Building: The Art of Digital and Physical Storytelling, and it is set for Monday, Dec. 9 at 9:30 …
Iconic Centre Pompidou Facade In Paris Converted To Giant Nike Video Promo During Upcoming Olympics July 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes The industrial-looking Centre Pompidou visual arts center and museum in Paris is getting a digital facade during the upcoming Olympics – part of an Art of Victory exhibition bankrolled by Nike and opening on July 24. Nike, in PR, says it will “transform the Centre Pompidou’s iconic façade into a canvas that showcases groundbreaking stories …
Have Your Power BI-driven Data Dashboards Stopped Working On Networked Screens? If So, Here’s The Likely Reason July 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes Signagelive CEO Jason Cremins has an interesting post up on Linkedin making the industry aware of a problem some digital signage networks may now be having: displaying real-time data dashboards powered by Microsoft’s Power BI. Microsoft has raised minimum browser support requirements to properly show a URL tied to a Power BI dashboard visualization, so …
Las Vegas Sphere Uses 150 Nvidia GPUs; Estimated At Lighting Peaks To Use Same Energy Draw As 21,000 Homes July 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes Computing hardware giant Nvidia has put out a “behind the screens” post online to talk about what is underneath the hood, so to speak, of the Las Vegas Sphere, and the amount of power needed to run all that Nvidia gear and the LEDs is mind-wobbling. Behind the screens, around 150 NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPUs help …
Walmart, Target And Pet Store Chewy Generate Most US Retail Media Ad Impressions July 12, 2024 by Dave Haynes A LOT of companies in the digital signage ecosystem have their eyes on whatever prizes are available through the rise of retail media networks, though enthusiasm is necessarily tempered by how almost all of the ad spend is going to online, mobile and social. The spend on screens in stores is estimated to be less …
Sad News: Industry Vet Dave Petricig Of CRI Has Passed Away July 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes Very unfortunate news started circulating Thursday evening that well-known digital signage sales and channel vet Dave Petricig passed away suddenly, earlier in the day. A Chicago lifer, Petricig has worked for several companies in the digital signage sector, most recently as Director of Channel sales for Creative Realities, Inc. (CRI). That role, and similar ones …
Two-Thirds Of Big EU Businesses Still Not Set Up With Right Tech For Hybrid Work: Survey July 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes Hat tip to AV Interactive for first posting on this … The Dutch workplace-centric AV and IT consulting and services firm Kinly has released research that suggests two thirds (65%) of larger companies in Europe don’t yet have office spaces that are optimized for hybrid working, even though pretty much that same number (66%) want …
Conflicting Reports: Korean Display Giants Either Dialing Back Or Trying New Ways To Make Large MicroLED Displays July 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes There are a couple of interesting and conflicting reports about the interests and efforts of two giant electronics brands in the still-emerging microLED display sector. One report says Samsung and LG are dialing back their activity and investments, while a separate report suggests Samsung and tech partners are going after a new way to produce …
