AOPEN’s New Ace Series Pushes New Chrome OS Flex Capabilities June 23, 2022 by Dave Haynes One of the interesting outcomes of Google’s Chrome OS Flex software is that companies like AOPEN, which has long been selling Chrome OS-based media players intended for digital signage, can now market new boxes that are not necessarily pinned to a specific operating system. The Taiwan manufacturer, part of the Acer Group, has started touting …
Enough With The Naked Eye 3D LED Stuff, Please! June 23, 2022 by Dave Haynes I have had polite arguments with sales people from a few Chinese LED manufacturers, through Linkedin comments, about their assertions that there is something technically special about their display hardware that enables outdoor screens to deliver Naked Eye 3D viewing experiences. They don’t. It’s all in the creative, and in many cases contingent on viewing …
Microsoft’s Azure Face AI Platform Phasing Out Emotion, Identity Measurements June 23, 2022 by Dave Haynes Microsoft is phasing out some key capabilities of its Azure Face audience detection and measurement system, such as identifying age range and gender and the emotional state of viewers. These are commonly marketed capabilities of the computer vision companies active in the digital signage sector, touted as ways to understand the characteristics of people who …
Company Adds Screens To Anti-Theft Totems Common At Retail Gateways June 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes A Vancouver, BC-area company is marketing a display totem product for retail that, interesting, doubles up as a loss prevention tool. Just about any consumer will be familiar with vertical totems that shoppers need to walk though as they exit a store, with embedded electronics in the devices doing what’s called Electronic Article Surveillance loss …
Digital License Plate Vendor Reviver Wins Partial Approval; Adding Texas To States That Can Use Them June 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes A company built around the idea of replacing stamped metal license plates with connected, e-paper versions is starting to gain some traction – with U.S. state government clearance to sell and use them in Arizona, California, and Michigan, and now approval for them on commercial vehicles in Texas. Based near Sacramento, Reviver uses e-paper technology …
1M Daily Commuters Take A Color Bath At Tokyo’s Hyper-Busy Shinjuku Station June 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes Just stumbled on this 2021 project from Montreal’s Moment Factory – a grand-scale synchronized multimedia experience in the east-west passageway of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station, the world’s busiest transit hub. Called The Colour Bath, the project combines video displays with audio and sync’d lighting for content that changes throughout the station’s 24/7 days. Transforming the tunnel into …
New Mesh LED On UK Campus Cycles Between Public Art And Messaging June 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting use of low-rez mesh LED on the corner of a structure – in this case a new building in a busy part of the campus of the University of Kentucky, In Lexington, KY. The 55×24 foot video wall – called the Cornerstone – was schemed in from the design stages and …
Google’s Naveen Viswanatha On The Evolving Business For Chrome-Run Digital Signage And Kiosks June 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes The prevailing impression of Google and digital signage is that the tech giant came briefly into the sector a few years ago, made some noise, and then quietly left. But the reality is that the tech giant has continued to be active in digital signage, and there are numerous screen networks out there running on …
Samsung Canada Adds Moneris Payments Terminals To All-In-One Kiosks June 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes Partners are important at the best of times, and they’re particularly important for a technology company trying to wedge its way into established business systems and processes like payments – so a deal Samsung’s Canadian wing has worked out with a payments company should help market the electronics giant’s new-ish retail kiosk. Samsung’s all-in-one kiosk, …
Steel Giant’s VIP Bus Has Windows Overlaid With Transparent OLEDs June 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes All the information is in Korean and doesn’t give me many answers when translated, but I was nonetheless intrigued by this Youtube video of a bus specially kitted out with transparent OLED displays in all the windows. It was done by Hyun Sun Display, a Korean specialty display and integration company for Posco, a huge …
