Digital Signage-Centric Golf Tourney Set For InfoComm Eve April 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes Industry veteran Kevin Cosbey has been pulling together somewhat informal golf days ahead of industry events for a few years, and the responses and experiences have been good enough to prompt a more formalized tournament, just ahead of Infocomm in a few weeks. The 1st Annual Velasea & Snap Install Golf Tournament will run at …
Light Festival In Emirate Includes Projection Mapping A Mountain April 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes All kinds of big man-made structures have been used as the canvas for projection mapping shows – from grain terminals to mosques to the Empire State Building. But here’s a very different, and challenging, projection surface – a mountain. German language content partner invidis has a post up on its site about a light festival …
Barvanna Adds Real-Time Sports Betting Info To Place-Based Streaming Content Offer April 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes Barvanna has added a very different twist to the typical content mix used by place-based streaming Digital OOH networks, partnering with SportsGrid to deliver real-time sports betting information, including odds and moneylines. The content runs on L-bar overlays tied into Barvanna’s streams. From PR: The SportsGrid cloud-based content solution enhances the fan experience delivering a …
InfoComm Details Digital Signage Highlights For Upcoming Trade Show April 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes The InfoComm trade show has pushed out details on the digital signage components of the event, which is now less than two months out in Las Vegas. The exhibit hall days that pull in the most people are always preceded by training across a wide range of pro AV technologies, and one of the areas …
Future Tech: Researchers Makes LED Displays Inherently Interactive, And Solar Collectors April 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes As spotted in Display Daily, which is paywalled. One of the minor knocks against using LED display for video walls was how they did not support touchscreen interactivity, because the displays with micro-soldered light emitters were fragile and really not meant to be touched. It didn’t matter much because LED video walls didn’t tend to …
Oooops! – German Football Team’s Perimeter LED Displays Trashed As Fans Invade Pitch After Historic Win April 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip Craig Denholm for posting about this on Linkedin … LED ribbon displays – more formally known, I think, as perimeter screens – are common along the sidelines of professional football (soccer) playing surfaces around the globe. They are, by necessity, ruggedized to deal with balls being kicked at them, and players taking out …
Big Multimedia Cylinder Display Previewed For Houston Airport’s New Int’l Terminal April 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes When I spoke with Thibaut Duverneix of the Montreal creative studio Gentilhomme on a recent podcast, he alluded to work that was underway for a big multimedia display piece at the main airport in Houston, Texas. It won’t be live until some time in 2025, but Gentilhomme presumably has the OK from the airport to …
What If A Big Building’s Construction Wrap Or Hoarding Was A Display? April 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes The German company LightnTec has been steadily refining its unique LED display technology, which I’d inelegantly describe as a rugged tarpaulin that can double as a dynamic display. The Karlsruhe company has been at it for a few years now, and as happens with display tech, their products over time have become lighter, brighter, thinner …
Scala Staging Retail Media Networks Conference Ahead Of Next Week’s Retail Tech Show In London April 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes STRATACACHE had a packed room back in January when it tried out running a retail media network-focused one-day conference ahead of the NRF retail tech show in New York, so now the company is doing the same thing next week in London. Scala, which is owned by STRATACACHE and has higher brand recognition across the …
SageNet’s IV Dickson On How Large Companies Now See Digital Signage As A Consequential Part Of Their Operations April 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes When I first spoke with industry lifer IV Dickson about his move from software to the managed services firm SageNet, the company was still in the relatively early days of getting itself organized to chase and then service digital signage opportunities. Five years on, digital in environments like chain retail and QSR are a core, …
