US OOH Industry Sees Record Revenues; DOOH Now Almost One-Third Of Activity: OAAA May 17, 2024 by Super User The U.S. out of home advertising industry continues to be in a big growth cycle, with year-on-year Q1 revenues up 6.8% in the first quarter of 2024 and that number almost hitting $2 billion. The numbers are from the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA), which says the $1.94 billion in revenues represents …
Mobile LED Rental Firm GoVision Upgrades Fleet To Near Fine-Pitch Resolutions May 16, 2024 by Super User My local pro football club – the mighty Halifax Wanderers of the Canadian Premier League (yes, there is such a thing) – play at what amounts to a pop-up stadium below a fort in the old Canadian harbor city, and one of the big new features added last season and back this year is an …
DISPLAX, Interactive Scape Mash Up Technologies For New Take On Interactive Tables May 16, 2024 by Super User Very good, hyper-responsive multitouch technology has been mashed up with slick object recognition tech out of Germany for an interactive table aimed at markets like museums, showrooms and military/police situational awareness rooms. The product – called Tile Pro | Scape X – blends the touch technology from Braga, Portugal’s DISPLAX with the objection recognition tech …
Workspace Booking Platform Humly Expands Solutions To Company Parking Spaces May 16, 2024 by Super User The pandemic-triggered shift in how workspaces are designed and operated evolved the use-case for screen-based solutions around offices – adding shared desk availability to displays that pre-pandemic were more about meeting room assignments and availability. Now a Swedish company operating in that “workplace experience” space has added a new twist – visualizations that show the …
NCR Voyix Partners With GRUBBRR On Kiosk Tuned To Spiking Demand In QSRs For Self-Service Ordering May 16, 2024 by Super User Point of sale giant NCR Voyix is going after the spike in demand for self-service ordering and payment kiosks in the restaurant sector by launching what it calls its Aloha kiosk, which has GRUBBRR’s software running under the hood. Kiosks, the company says, address ongoing issues the food services industry is facing – including finding …
Here’s A Futuresource Video Recap Of Emerging Display Tech From Displayweek Show May 16, 2024 by Super User Ted Romanowitz of the UK research firm Futuresource Consulting focuses his analyst eyes on the LED sector, so it is not surprising that he headed down from Portland, OR to Silicon Valley this week to take in the Society For Information Display’s annual nerd-fest Display Week. He’s produced a quick recap video that’s worth a …
Addressable Market For US Restaurant Industry Is Just Over 238,000 Locations: Research May 16, 2024 by Super User Tech vendors often talk about the addressable market size for the business verticals that they’re focused on, so it is likely handy for the many, many companies looking to introduce or expand digital signage and related tech in the restaurant and food services sectors to understand the size of the largest QSR, fast casual and …
Data-Driven Generative Art Used For Canadian Bank’s Video Wall At Busy Transit Hub Branch May 15, 2024 by Super User This is an interesting use of an LED video wall at the front of a very public bank branch – the TD Canada Trust branch at Toronto’s Union Station, a hub for passenger rail, commuter rail and commuter buses, as well as a main subway stop. The branch has a big 12 foot by 6 …
Owner Foxconn Shutting Down Sharp’s TV Display Business May 15, 2024 by Super User Japanese electronics giant Sharp announced this week it is getting out of the TV display business, shutting down production lines in Japan and looking at selling businesses. This is televisions, not pro displays, so that does not mean InfoComm is a last stand for Sharp NEC, which markets high-end commercial displays, projectors and other systems. …
SID’s Display Nerd Fest This Week Includes Much Brighter OLEDs, Auto Dashboards As Displays May 15, 2024 by Super User The Society for Information Display’s annual Display Week symposium and exhibition is on right now in San Jose – attracting the very technical side of the digital signage and pro AV community, as well as all kinds of engineers working in everything from automobile dashboard designs to military systems. I’ve been to this event, which …
