Video: London’s V&A Museum Turned Into Arcade Game, Using Projections And Game Controllers April 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes This was done a little more than a year ago. I missed it then, but it is still well worth noting … a projection-mapping job that turned a facade at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London into an arcade game screen. A custom video game was developed for Hyundai’s lux Genesis car product, and …
ViewSonic Marketing Jumps Shark With News Of Mega 63-Foot All-In-One LED Display April 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Taiwanese display and solutions company ViewSonic has jumped the shark with an announcement that it is marketing all in one “mega LED displays” that can be as large as 760 inches diagonal, or a little over 63 feet. Manufacturers, several years ago now, started developing and marketing all-in-one LED displays with the proposition that …
TSI Touch’s New “DVLED Defender” Protects Big LED Displays From Otherwise Inevitable Damage April 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes Get up close to a lot of big LED displays and you’ll start to notice dead or missing pixels – the result at times of inadvertent or willful damage. These displays are the aggregate of many thousands of teeny light emitters that are inherently fragile and easily damaged. Some newer technologies use epoxy glues to …
Todd Stahl Explains How Clear Motion Glass Makes Commercial Building Windows Into Active LED Displays April 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes There is a lot of glass in public and commercial spaces, and the pro AV and digital signage industries have been applying all kinds of technologies to turn things like windows and dividers into part-time or full-time displays. In most cases, those jobs have come with compromises. There are films that might start curling at …
Barcelona’s Other Big Pro Football Team Puts Big LED Mesh Screen On Stadium Facade For Fans, And For DOOH Advertising April 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes FC Barcelona gets almost all of the global attention, but the Catalan city has another professional football club, RCD Espanyol – with its own modern stadium and a revenue-generating 200 sq. meter LED mesh screen on a main facade. The team and its owner group have done a deal with local screen provider LED Dream …
Atmosphere TV Partners With Delaware North To Add U.S. Airport Bars And Restaurants To Screen Network April 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes Airport departure lounges have long been a target of digital OOH media network operators because of the dwell times and demographics, and now another haven for travelers with time on their hands has been added to the mix – airport bars. Austin-based Atmosphere TV, which provides free streaming content channels to all kinds of environments, …
Distributor Exertis Pro AV Shutting Down Canadian Operations April 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes There’s no formal announcement on the company site, but it appears very much that distributor Exertis Pro AV is leaving the Canadian market. Exhibit A is a Linkedin post noting that the company’s “closing sale is in its final days, and the savings are too good to pass up!” Exhibit B is a somewhat cryptic …
Spectrio’s New Private Label TV Allows Venue Operators To Avoid Cable TV Viewing Conflicts In Common Areas April 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes Digital signage software and experiential solutions firm Spectrio has developed a new service that lets operators curate and control what’s on the screens in common areas – like customer waiting rooms and staff break lounges. Called Private Label TV (PLTV), the service allows businesses like car dealerships to better control what’s airing on the TVs …
LinkNYC DOOH Ad Totems Set For $20M In Upgrades April 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes The widely-deployed LinkNYC digital OOH ad network on the sidewalks of New York City has had a spotty business history since it was launched a decade ago, culminating with a New York state audit noting in Sept. 2021 revenue and build-out shortfalls. But there is evidently enough confidence in the media model that $20 million …
Saudi Expo Exhibit In Qatar Uses 435 Vertical LED Columns To Showcase Environmental Efforts April 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip AV Interactive for first posting on this … The grounds of the Saudi pavilion at the just-ended International Horticultural Expo in Doha, Qatar were surrounded by a swirling wall of 435 LED columns set at different eights, running a set of low rez visuals supporting the exhibit and expo’s environmental theme. The columns …
