Meghan Athavale On How Her Company’s LUMOplay Software Makes Any Digital Display Interactive January 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes Interactive floor projections and video walls have been around for well more than a decade now, but there hasn’t really been widespread adoption for a bunch of reasons – like cost, complication and the simple reality that a lot of what’s been shown to date hasn’t had much of a point. A Canadian company, Lumo …
CES Is Imminent, And The Big Consumer Brands Are Once Again Previewing Interesting But Dubious Concept Products January 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes The giant consumer-focused tech trade show CES is next week in Las Vegas, and there will be all kinds of digital signage and pro AV people going and enduring the line-ups and even-higher-then-normal prices for rooms and transport. The show doesn’t have a whole bunch to do with commercial AV, other than offering glimpses of …
Digital Signage-Driven Sook Pop-Up Stores Cease Operations January 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes Well this makes me sad … the UK start-up that was using digital signage technology as the core visual marketing feature of a set of short-term rental pop-up stores has ceased operations. The company, called Sook, had what I thought was the clever idea of establishing small, ready-to-use retail stores on UK high streets that …
Mormon Church Books Domination Campaign Across 27 Times Square LED Screens December 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes Brands sometime book domination campaigns that sync up multiple LED spectacular displays in New York’s Times Square, and there are periodic late evening takeovers for public digital art on those screens, but here is something quite different: a Christmas-themed message across 27 displays – planned, booked and delivered by the Mormon church. The Church …
Merry Christmas! December 21, 2023 by Dave Haynes I don’t expect a lot of news or word of interesting new projects or developments over the next week and change, but I’m around and paying attention. If Christmas is something you mark and celebrate, have a great one with family and friends! Our grandson is now two and it will be the first Christmas …
New Saudi Gov’t Back Giga Project Involves E-Sports Arena With Massive 3,600 Sq. Meter Chandelier-Like LED Screen December 21, 2023 by Dave Haynes Given the extraordinary cost and the need in much of the world to clear planning hurdles and local objects about light pollution and energy usage, it’s widely thought the next variation on the Las Vegas Sphere might rise up in a money-is-no-object place like Dubai or Saudi Arabia. And now there is word of a …
DSE 2023 Recap Suggests Attendance Of Roughly 3,000; Most Of Them Buyers Designers Or Specifiers December 21, 2023 by Dave Haynes The 2023 edition of Digital Signage Experience (DSE) pulled roughly 3,000 attendees earlier this month in Las Vegas, with the show’s organizers noting that just shy of 80% of those attendees were buyers, or from companies that design, specify and put in digital signage and DOOH networks. Show owner Questex followed a press release earlier …
Interesting Cutaway View Of Sphere Interior … December 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes Came across this online – an interesting cutaway view of the Sphere in Vegas, showing the exoskeleton and how the seating and common areas are set up. There have been countless external photos, as well as shots of the U2 concert and the nature film, but not many of the common areas inside. There’s a …
OOH Gets Top Overall Performance From Media Pros: Research December 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes Here’s a little year-end nugget of positive messaging for the out of home and digital out of home sector – word that it gets the best performance ratings among media agency people. A 2023 survey by Media Village’s Myers Report – described as the media industry’s most influential B2B research report – says that among …
LDI Attracted More Than 12,000 To 2023 Show; No Post-Show Report Yet On Conjoined DSE December 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes The live events company that jointly puts on both Live Design International (LDI) and Digital Signage Experience (DSE) has pushed out a wrap-up press release about the main event and its positive growth, but the piece doesn’t get into any detail on the much smaller DSE show. Questex says LDI pulled more than 12,000 attendees, …
