LED Tower And Walls Create Data Sculpture Maze In Taipei March 16, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is pretty wild – the world’s first outdoor immersive installation done as a maze. The walls are LED panels, covering 1,110 sq. meters at a site near the iconic Taipei 101 in Taiwan’s main city. The set-up included a four-storey high LED monolith tower, and a series of other walls that create the maze, …
Atmosphere Says Its Digital OOH Streaming Network Now Reaches 100M Viewers Monthly March 16, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Austin-based digital OOH streaming platform Atmosphere says it just hit a major milestone this week, with its installed footprint now reaching 100 million unique monthly viewers in places like bars, fast food restaurants, gyms and waiting rooms. The company says that represents almost 5X growth in its audience in the past year. It says …
LianTronics Showcases Moveable LED For Meeting Room Divider Walls March 16, 2023 by Dave Haynes Chinese LED display manufacturer LianTronics is showcasing an interesting take on building big displays into meetings and events facilities that have moveable walls – the kind of thing that allows a wall to be moved away to make two rooms into one larger one. “These ultra-thin LED walls were designed to blend with the door,” …
LG Marketing Big Outdoor LED Displays For Cruise Ships March 16, 2023 by Dave Haynes LG has started marketing a new outdoor direct-view LED display series expressly designed for the cruise ship market, with units that are built to survive whatever weather and operating conditions the crew might encounter. The GNEB series has marine-grade powder and conformal (circuitry) coatings, and the front and rear of the displays are IP67-certified. The …
First Waterfalls, Then Aquariums, And Now There Are Digital Campfires March 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes Display technology has been set up to emulate all kinds of things – from waterfalls to virtual ceilings and digital chandeliers – but I think this is the first time I have seen screens clustered together to emulate a campfire. It is in the Frankfurt flagship of the outdoor’s-focused retailer Jack Wolfskin, a German brand …
Mvix Extends Software To Better Reach Hybrid Workforces March 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes Mvix is the latest digital signage software firm to adapt and extend its platform to service the needs of hybrid workplaces – launching a new feature that allows clients to stream real-time digital signage content to a distributed audience. The service from the DC-area company, dubbed Virtual Player, “enables digital signage content to be distributed …
Endangered Kelp Forests Get Replicated On Big SFO LED Display March 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes Virtual aquariums have been used before for large-scale LED video walls, as have virtual waterfalls, but a new digital piece running in one of Salesforce’s office towers in San Francisco relates to a cause. The CRM giant is running a public art video piece on the big, 90-degree corner SNA Displays LED in the Salesforce …
Futuresource’s ISE Wrap-Up: Price Erosion Continuing In LED; LCD Use Range Narrowing March 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes The UK-based research and consulting firm Futuresource sent a pile of people – 22 market analysts – to Integrated Systems Europe in Barcelona, to walk the halls, talk to vendors and sit in on presentations. That investment and effort builds up knowledge and helps shape future reports, but the company very helpfully puts out a …
How Gavin Smith’s Backyard Tinkering Led To The World’s Most Advanced 3D Volumetric Display March 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes When I was at the big ISE pro AV trade show a few weeks ago, I yet again saw several products that were billed as holograms, even though they didn’t even loosely fit the technical definition. I am always paying attention to news and social media posts that use that terminology, and once in a …
I Tried A Bot-Generated Blog Post, And It’s Not Bad March 14, 2023 by Dave Haynes My son Scott is HEAVILY into AI-generated art and has been regularly sending me samples of work created, as well as raising my limited level of understanding of what this all is and how it works – including pointing me at Dall E and Midjourney and some ChatGPT set-ups. My understanding and experience are still …
