Looking Glass Adds A Jumbo 65-Inch Display To 3D Holographic Family June 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes Image Credits: Jay Howse / Looking Glass Factory Another thing a little lost in the PR blizzard around InfoComm was news out of Brooklyn last week that those small Looking Glass 3D desktop displays now have a very big brother – a 65-inch version. Looking Glass Factory suggests its new 8K display is 5X larger than any other …
Surprise!: Trade Shows Are COVID Super-Spreader Events June 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes Three tests, three negatives so far, but I am not out of the woods yet with respect to getting or dodging COVID-19 after five days and nights in Las Vegas last week. There are many, many reports of people who were at InfoComm last week getting home, doing tests, and getting the two little red …
With InfoComm Over, Digital Signage Industry Attention In North America Now Turns To DSE June 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes With InfoComm in the rear-view mirror, the next North American trade show/conference with a heavy or sole focus on digital signage is Digital Signage Experience – the reboot of DSE set for November, back in Las Vegas. That city was mind-bendingly hot last week – hot like when you open an oven to pull something …
Smart Retail 2.0: Screens Are Key To Post-COVID Retailing June 13, 2022 by HenrikAndersson GUEST POST: HENRIK ANDERSSON, INSTORESCREEN Online shopping and mobile technologies were already compelling a lot of bricks and mortar retailers to start digitally transforming the way their stores looked, worked and were experienced by customers – but the many impacts of the global pandemic put those plans in much faster motion. Services like curbside pickup …
Sharp/NEC Repackage AI Audience Measurement Platform As NaviSense June 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes One of the announcements a bit lost by me in the InfoComm PR blizzard last week was Sharp/NEC revisiting and re-packaging its AI/computer vision IP as NaviSense. The product is positioned as “a cost-effective computer vision solution for gathering anonymous customer attributes using off-the-shelf or existing camera sources and processing them through a variety of …
Northwestern’s Qatari Campus Includes Giant LED Wall In Atrium Lobby June 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes The video is very curious and the details limited, but here’s a look nonetheless at an ambitious, big-dollar video wall project at the Qatari outpost of Chicago’s much respected Northwestern University. It is a big display in an atrium that is about three storeys tall and 92 sq. meters in total visual footprint – done …
PPDS Finally Harmonizes Pro Display Efforts, Aligning US Business With Global Company June 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes When I was at InfoComm last week, I made a point of stopping by the PPDS exhibit to see the company’s latest pots and pans, but also get my head straight on a very involved announcement about the U.S. business. I was told by a contact there that explaining the set-up of PPDS in the …
Public Utility Switches On A 60-Meter-Wide Fine Pitch LED Control Room Wall June 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes Behold what may well be the biggest damn video wall in Canada – a 60-meter-wide by 2.7 meter tall beast in the control room of a public utility company. I kinda stumbled across this on the website of Engineering Harmonics, a Toronto-based consulting and integration firm. It is a 1.2mm pitch microLED-ish wall that the …
Public Display Shipments Slipped In Q1; Attributed to China Lockdowns, Ukraine, And Time Of Year – Omdia Research June 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes The research firm Omdia says the global market for what it calls public displays (basically commercial/Pro AV-grade displays) declined by 2.1% in the first quarter of 2022 from the previous quarter – owing in part to typical slowdowns in that period but also to domestic lockdowns in China and VladimirPutin’s ambitions. Says Tay Taehoon Kim …
Uniguest Does Second Acquisition Within Week, Picking Up Hospitality Division Of CPI Global June 11, 2022 by Dave Haynes Somewhat lost in the flurry of PR during InfoComm week was a second announcement from Nashville-based solutions provider Uniguest about a second acquisition in as many days. The company announced its acquisition of CPI Global’s hospitality division, a day after announcing its acquisition of the Norwegian software firm Otrum AS. Paris-based CPI Global’s hospitality technology …
