More Than 800 Exhibitors Now Booked For ISE Next Month April 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes The company that puts on Integrated Systems Europe for its trade association owners did a press briefing Thursday that dug into plans and expectations for the world’s leading biggest pro AV, set for Barcelona on May 10th to 13th. Integrated Systems Events Managing Director Mike Blackman says more than 800 exhibitors are booked for the …
Mitsui Foundation Lights Up 10 Big LED Displays With Custom Content In NYC Lobby April 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a very nice, quite different take on using digital display to enliven a corporate office tower lobby. While a lot of projects these days are about one very large, wall-filling display as the showpiece, the Mitsui Foundation’s renovated lobby at 1251 Avenue of the Americas in New York uses 10 LED displays notched …
NEC Launches Suite Of Workplace Management Solutions, Including Signage, Tied To Its Cloud Services April 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes NEC Corporation of America (NEC), the non-display side of NEC not part of the 2020 Sharp-NEC Displays joint venture, sees an opportunity to make workplaces smarter through what it calls a “comprehensive suite of Workplace Management solutions” that include digital signage and wayfinding. The solutions are designed to complement the company’s Univerge Blue Cloud Services, …
2nd Gen Looking Glass Light Field Displays Add Larger Sizes, Richer 3D Viewing Experiences April 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes A post yesterday went into how an impressive grand-scale projection for a TV series promotion was billed as a hologram, but wasn’t really. So to give you a sense of technology that is MUCH closer to being a three-dimensional hologram that has volume, here’s a look at the second generation of light field displays from …
Giant 60-Foot Projections In Four Cities Help Promote Gaming-Inspired TV Series April 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes I sometimes feel like some annoying, overly-cynical guy at the back of a meeting room quietly muttering, “That’s not a hologram.” But on behalf of all the little companies and labs out there working on light field displays and other three-dimensional display tech, that really does meet the definition of displays that have volume and …
Spain Drops Masks Mandates, As Does Next Month’s ISE Trade Show There April 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes If you have plans to attend the big Integrated Systems Europe pro AV and digital signage trade show next month in Barcelona, you will likely be interested in news that Spain’s two-year-long face mask mandate has just been dropped. The Spanish government has approved the end of the mandatory use of face masks in most …
Australia Roadways Engineers Using Water Projections As Giant Emergency Stop Signs April 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes Where I live, there are regular tales of commercial truck drivers ignoring low clearance warnings and taking out the overhead barriers at toll booths on one of the harbor bridges. I suspect every locale of any size has similar problems, with truck drivers blithely ignoring how their rides are too tall for overpasses and tunnel …
Hear The Thinking Behind All The New Digital At The Just Opened Delta Airlines Terminal At LAX, With Ryan Taylor April 20, 2022 by Dave Haynes Airports and airlines were early adopters of digital signage technology and the whole idea of data-driven messaging – using screens to tell travellers about arrival and departure times, and the status of flights and boarding at gates. But digital signage is becoming central to communications not only for passengers, but also for staff. A huge …
AV IT Integrator Diversified Launches In-House Financing To Build Out, Sustain Customer Projects April 19, 2022 by Dave Haynes The big U.S. pro AV IT integrator Diversified has announced a formalized in-house financing program that can roll up hardware and services costs into a single monthly invoice. Called Diversified Global Payment Solution, the program is built around providing “extensive equipment and technology financing options to enable client growth and innovation.” “Keeping up with the …
Tech Giant Hewlett Packard Using Big LED To Immerse, Inspire At Houston HQ April 19, 2022 by Dave Haynes Tech giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has worked a series of large LED displays into its global headquarters in the Houston area, with a goal of providing immersive experiences, as well as artistic and inspirational pieces, and branded content. The displays are all from SNA Displays, are using Scala as the CMS, and were put …
