Why, Despite VXT, I Am Grateful To Samsung May 13, 2024 by Jason Cremins Guest Post: Jason Cremins, Signagelive Samsung is now a formal competitor to digital signage software providers. It has released its VXT platform and communicated clearly with the market that it is going alone to win direct business. However, this was not always the case. In 2013, Marc Benson (our CTO) and I were approached by Samsung UK to attend a briefing at their Chertsey, UK. …
Pyramid Markets Kiosk With Transparent OLED Screen That Doesn’t Block Sightlines In QSR May 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes The market will tell the story, and I am a bit skeptical, but this is nonetheless an interesting use of transparent OLED for QSR environments, tying the display to kiosk functionality. The IT solutions firm Pyramid will be showing a version at its stands at the upcoming National Restaurant Association trade show – positioning it …
Video: LED Ribbon Display At Jacksonville’s Airport Cleverly Manages TSA Screening Area May 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes I wrote back in February about the 100 feet of Nanolumens LED ribbon on a bulkhead wall over the entries to TSA security screening at Jacksonville, Florida’s airport, and how it was set up to do things like locating different screening lines and also run background content specific to that day. Heres another video, from …
Italian Tech Firm Deploying Ynvisible’s Large Format E-Paper Displays As Gas Station Fuel Pricing Signs May 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes E-paper displays have been talked up for bus and rail schedule signs at stops and smaller platforms, but I’ve not seen it touted for another market that offers a lot of scale – fuel station pricing on big roadside pylons. The Vancouver company Ynvisible Interactive Inc. has announced a deal and delivery of some 25,000 …
Buzz & Bullseye Mixer Update: Coming Together Nicely, But Still Waaaaay Sold Out, Sorry May 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes We’ll be using screens, too, but the printed material for the InfoComm 2024 digital signage industry mixer is either done or will be soon. Bryan Meszaros, my event partner for the Buzz & Bullseyes industry mixer next month, has been doing the artwork and a lot of the front-end work for the event, and he …
REACH Boosts Ad Capabilities Via Integrations With Major Programmatic DOOH Platforms May 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes Digital signage and DOOH were, for many years, intermingled terms, but they kinda went off on their own tracks about 10-12 years ago. Now they’re starting to intermingle again, likely because of the big spike in interest and activity involving the in-store screens aspect of retail media networks. I’m seeing lots of stuff lately suggesting …
Swiss Startup Tests LED-Fronted Ball Caps That Turn A Crowd Into An Aggregated Sign May 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes Tip of the hat to AV Interactive for writing about this … If I had to characterize my opinion on this, it would involve a big, long hmmmm … A Swiss startup called Dynavisual put little LED screens on ball caps worn by 98 fans who were at a European Handball match in Switzerland, with …
Projection And Hover Touch Mash-up Allow People To Leaf Through Ancient Manuscript At Korean Library May 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes Hat tip to UK creative Stephan Bischof for posting on Linkedin about this … This is a physical book, with blank pages, sitting on a marble table – with the material from the real book projected on to it from above. The truly interesting thing is the use of a Zytronic’s contactless hover touch-sensing technology …
Clever Campaign Turns Blackened Ballpark LED Display Into Marketing Gold May 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s a video that sums up a very clever campaign for Coors Light beer that was built around a Major League Baseball hitting a long foul ball that took out an LED module of one of the ad boards at the ballpark last year. Angels player Shohei Ohtani drilled one into the stands at Citi …
Short List For Digital Signage Summit Strategy Awards Announced; T-Minus Two Weeks For Weisse Beer And Sausages May 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes I am undergoing a Navy Seals-like training regimen to get my body ready for giant pretzels, sausages and 1L weisse beers when I am through Germany in a couple of weeks, to attend and do a little panel moderation at the two-day Digital Signage Summit (DSS) Europe 2024 in Munich. The event starts two weeks …
