Denmark’s Realfiction Expanding Beyond Hologram-ish Displays With New Multi-View Tech December 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Danish display tech firm Realfiction is best known for its merchandising-sized holographic-ish displays that use a variation on the old Pepper’s Ghost reflected visual illusion technique, but next month during CES in Las Vegas it is planning to show and demo technology that shows different visuals to different viewers. The company is not at …
Ross Video Exits LED Display Business, Just Two Years After Acquiring D3LED December 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes In a move perhaps best described as curious (or maybe inevitable), Ross Video has announced it is getting out of the LED display business, two years after acquiring D3LED and getting squarely in that business. The Ottawa, Canada pro AV tech firm announced its plans Thursday to “exit the LED display business and is now …
ISE Venue’s Main Entry Windows Getting Vast Transparent LED Retrofit In Time For 2024 Show December 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes The venue that is now home to the big pro AV trade show Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) is getting what would be one of the largest operating installations of that wafer-thin, perforated foil-like LED display tech on the curtain wall windows of the main entrance. The Welcome Screen at the South Access of Fira de …
Watch: 164 Smartphones Stacked Like Christmas Tree To Create Unique Video Wall December 14, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is a fun retail project in Chile that somehow or other sync’s up 164 Samsung Galaxy smartphones to deliver messages on a digital Christmas tree. The set-up uses Novisign’s CMS software and its “Screen Sync” to get all the phones mapped and capable of behaving like a very big and complicated video wall, except …
Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) Acquired By Hong Kong Research Firm Counterpoint December 14, 2023 by Dave Haynes Solid research can be a little hard to come by in this industry, especially about software, so it is encouraging to learn that a small and relatively new research group has been acquired by a larger one – with plans to scale up coverage into new product segments and geographies. Display industry specialist Display Supply …
How Cecoceco Creates Active Wall Finishes With LED And 3D Printing December 14, 2023 by Dave Haynes I have written and blabbered away about how LED technology is maturing to a level that it is becoming a design consideration for architects and the people who create the look and feel of built spaces. But that thinking always assumed that clever creative could make the black surface of a big video wall, loaded …
Staying On Top Of Seasonal Promotions And Messaging Gets Easier, More Accurate, Using Digital Signage December 14, 2023 by Emily McCue Baldeschwiler Guest Post: Emily McCue Baldeschwiler, Spectrio There is a lot more to seasonality in retailing and food services than spring, summer, fall and winter, and digital signage technology offers a way for operators to not only stay on top of all the changes seasonality requires, but also profit from them. Consumers are familiar with products and …
Sixteen:Nine ISE Mixer Spots All Gone. Sorry!!! December 13, 2023 by Dave Haynes Well that didn’t take long! Available spots for the Sixteen:Nine Mixer at ISE in Barcelona next month went up yesterday, and now the admittedly limited supply has been exhausted. A Swiss guy got the last one. That stated, some tickets may come available from sponsors (you can grovel to one of them), and a few …
Black Rifle Coffee Starts Rolling Out CRI’s Digital Signage Solution Across Its Chain December 13, 2023 by Dave Haynes Creative Realities, Inc. has announced a deal that will see its digital signage solutions built in to the customer experience for locations of Black Rifle Coffee, a US coffee chain that has close ties with active-duty military members, veterans, and first responders. The solution is in place in a new-design store, and the intention is …
ISE Forecasting Biggest Exhibit Hall Footprint Ever, As Well As Largest Visitor Count December 13, 2023 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe is forecasting its exhibit hall footprint late next month in Barcelona will be its largest ever, almost a third larger than the 2023 show. The organizers are also suggesting the show might attract its highest number of visitors yet. “Anticipation is also building for the highest number of visitors ever recorded at …
