Transparent LED Steadily Improving, But The Backside View Remains A Challenge February 10, 2023 by Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 …
Big And Fine LEDs Aside, Here Are Some Notable Display Innovations Seen At ISE 2023 February 8, 2023 by Super User I’m kind of drafting off some content from Sixteen:Nine’s German language content partner invidis from some insights from last week’s ISE trade show – including some observations here about smaller but notable display innovations sprinkled around the trade show floor. There were, like every year, lots of LED display companies showing R&D efforts with super-fine …
A Peek Behind The Walls Of Samsung’s Black Fortress At ISE 2023 February 8, 2023 by Super User As noted in a couple of earlier ISE posts from the show last week, Samsung made what many thought was the curious decision to restrict admission to its booth – putting much of what was available to see behind black walls and making attendees register for scheduled, curated tours. Those who registered were not allowed …
Digital Signage Tech Pushed To Remote Worker Screens Reduces IT Help Desk Tickets By Two-Thirds February 8, 2023 by Super User When the pandemic hit, there were numerous CMS software providers actively trying to develop new or tweak existing products and functionality to address the needs of companies that suddenly had much or perhaps all of their office workforce operating from home. Applications that pushed digital signage-ish content and notifications to desktop displays have been around …
