Nexmosphere’s Sensors, Controllers And Toolkit Aimed At Making Interactive Retail Easy February 14, 2023 by Dave Haynes Way, way back in the day – in my dark period doing business development work for software companies – the company I was with did a fair amount of custom work that involved triggering content to screens using sensors. If someone came within a certain range of a screen, or lifted something that made a …
Two-Thirds Of Digital Signage Companies Seeing Double-Digit Growth: Invidis February 13, 2023 by Dave Haynes The first numbers are out from the Digital Signage Business Climate Index (DBCI) produced by Sixteen:Nine’s content partners in Germany, the consulting-events-publishing firm invidis, it suggests a lot of companies in the sector are seeing encouraging growth. 65 percent of the companies surveyed by invidis achieved double-digit sales growth in 2022, and the industry generally sees …
That Giant LED-Clad Orb In Las Vegas To Launch With U2 Concert Residency This Fall February 13, 2023 by Dave Haynes That giant LED-clad orb now getting finished off inside and out in Las Vegas will launch later this year with the Irish rock band U2 in “residency” with a series of live concerts. The MSG Sphere has been going up for at least a couple of years – perhaps more – over by that giant …
Transparent LED Steadily Improving, But The Backside View Remains A Challenge February 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes Several years of going to pro AV shows has allowed me to track the progression of display technologies like transparent LED, and while they have come a long, long way, it’s still important for people to understand the visual limitations. In other words, what looks great now from the front doesn’t necessarily look so hot …
Accenture Ventures Makes Strategic Investment In Holographic Display Maker Looking Glass February 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes The huge professional service/consulting company Accenture has made what it describes as a strategic investment through its Accenture Ventures wing in the holographic displays developed and marketed by Brooklyn-based Looking Glass Factory. Accenture says tech like the Looking Glass displays – which have some depth and change what viewers see based on angle – “offers …
Valley Bank Uses Big, Curved Staccato LED Feature In New NYC Flagship Branch February 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes The U.S. regional financial company Valley Bank used a 70-foot curved LED inside its new Manhattan flagship branch to make a big statement in that market and drive awareness of its brand and services. The display wall is entirely inside, but fully visible through glass curtain walls at the branch, on a Fifth Avenue corner …
Big Oops: Windows Error On DOOH Screen At NYC World Trade-Fulton Concourse February 9, 2023 by Dave Haynes A reader passed along this visual reminder about the risks of using consumer operating systems on digital signage jobs. This is a big video wall in one of the walkways connecting the World Trade Center are in New York with transport hubs. The error message has to do with hard disk storage. It has been …
Photos: ISE 2023 Digital Signage Networking Mixer February 9, 2023 by Dave Haynes A photographer shot a pile of high rez photos at last week’s Sixteen:Nine Mixer in Barcelona. I have gone through them and put together a representative sample that shows the venue, crowd and overall feel of an event that was very well received (though a bit hard for taxis to find). If you are in …
Vast 360-Degree Projection Set-Up Drives Ohio University’s Maker Space February 9, 2023 by Dave Haynes It seems like every case study and press release I’ve read lately that involved blended projectors was for an immersive attraction – like Illuminarium or Montreal’s Oasis Immersion. So it’s interesting to get a story about a US university using a series of blended projections as the core aspect of a new lab built to …
Vestel Adds SignStix As CMS Option For Its Smart Display Lineup February 9, 2023 by Dave Haynes North Americans who attended ISE for the first time may well have wandered into the main hall where all the big display manufacturers were located last week, and saw a very large stand for Vestel, and wondered: “Who is that?” Vestel is a very large display manufacturer based in Turkey (which is having a heartbreaking …
