Watch: Sony R&D Playing With Projected Light Field And Transparent Displays April 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip Ed Tang for noting this on Linkedin I have nowhere near the technical chops/smarts to explain this properly, but Sony has a post up on a corporate R&D site talking about work in a company lab in Tokyo focused on light field-like and transparent displays. The Linkedin description from Sony says: Sony has …
Watch: Midtown NYC Office Block Gets Fantastic Digital Makeover In Common Spaces April 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a fantastic example of a corporate client buying entirely into the advice that creative should drive the decisions and designs when using technology as an architectural design feature. The big NYC commercial property developer Vornado Realty Trust engaged Montreal’s Moment Factory to rethink the lobby and common spaces experience at PENN 1, a …
Samsung Starts Bundling Planning, Install Work With Its Premium “The Wall” LED Displays April 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes Many to most of the LED display manufacturers selling outside of China have, in recent years, started marketing bundled, fixed-size screens and gear as a way to simplify the buying and planning of an unfamiliar product for both resellers and end-users. Now Samsung – at least the German business unit – has gone to the …
Jimmy Hunt On How Spectrio Is Growing Its Channel, And Why Content Is So Central To Success April 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes Spectrio has been around the digital signage and on-premise media spaces for a bunch of years, growing both organically and through acquisitions, and increasingly making digital signage the main focus of the Tampa-area company. I’ve known of the company for a long time, but REALLY came to know some of its people in the past …
Fine Pitch LED Takes Over From LCD, Rear-Projection Systems At Houston Automation Firm April 26, 2022 by Dave Haynes Fine pitch LED is now at a price-point and resolution that it is replacing set-ups like LCD video walls and projection cubes for such uses as corporate showrooms and presentation spaces – as is the case with an automation company in the Houston area. Emerson Automation Solutions engaged integrator AVI Systems to design and put …
82 LED Displays Sync’d For One Night Swarovski Branding Event At Saudi Retail Complex April 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes Wow. Just wow. This is a screen takeover done for the crystal glass brand Swarovski – a VERY ambitious one-night branding event at a retail complex. It is sync’d content across 82 screens of varying shapes and scales. The on-screen content was developed and delivered by the Belgian creative technology shop Bureau Beatrice, which recently …
Verizon Rolls Out 100s Of Touchscreen-Driven Pickup Lockers For Outside Its Stores April 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting look at why and how the US telecoms giant Verizon developed a largely frictionless pickup locker system for retail locations, first testing it out last year at a location in Omaha, Nebraska. That’s two posts from Nebraska today! Writes Grady Milhon, who runs digital at retail for Verizon, on Linkedin … During …
Stockholm “Space” Touted As World’s Largest Gaming Center Adds Experiential LED Canopy April 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes German content partners Invidis put up a post today about an interesting and vast new digital culture center that’s opened in central Stockholm, with some very big LED walls and a hell of a lot of smart monitors. Called Space, is a multi-level “physical meeting place” for people into all things digital, most notably esports. …
Nebraska Transport Company Using Digital Signage To Reach 1,000s Of Drivers When They’re At Facilities April 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a relevant working example of how a company uses digital signage to reach a workforce that is very much deskless – some 5,200 truck drivers on the road for a Nebraska transportation company. Crete Carrier, based in Lincoln, uses screens at 17 distribution locations and at the head office to get messaging out …
OOH Industry Vet Reviews State Of Times Square LED Boards, And Gives It A D+ April 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes Out of home and display industry veteran Alan High periodically sends me an email with his industry impressions, and often his phone camera shots, from travels into New York City. He’d not been into Manhattan in 18 months, because you know why, and in his latest observations, says much has changed, and not all of …
