How The NHL’s Seattle Kraken Use LED Everywhere To Drive Game-Day Experiences March 30, 2022 by Dave Haynes The spectacle of pro sports used to be almost entirely about what happened on the playing surface, but these days it’s also about the venue and the technology and creative used to create memorable and shareable experiences. If you are paying $75 a ticket, and $12 per beer, there should perhaps be more entertainment than …
127 Linear Feet Of Samsung’s The Wall Fill Thai Real Estate Sales Center March 29, 2022 by Dave Haynes This would have to be among the largest deployments to date of Samsung’s The Wall – the display giant’s MicroLED-ish premium LED video wall product – now lit up at a Thai property development pavilion. It fills all four walls of a presentation center for a huge, eco-themed property development going up in Bangkok called …
How About Projection Systems So Small They Could Be Part Of Merchandising Displays? March 29, 2022 by Dave Haynes Texas Instruments is marketing a new line of teeny projection modules, with vary brightness levels and resolutions, that are touted for applications like consumer appliances but could, in theory, be useful for some commercial digital signage applications like product displays. The newest DLP digital micro-mirror device (DMD), says TI, reduces the projection module size by …
Navori Labs Does “Near-Complete” Rework Of UX For Its Digital Signage CMS Platform March 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Swiss CMS software firm Navori Labs has revealed details of a major update of its long-running platform, including a “near-complete” reworking of the user experience and an on-premise “lite” version aimed at the entry-level, modest needs market. The new QL 2.7 release also has expanded player functionality, rewritten players for proprietary smart displays and …
Plans For A London Twin Of That Giant Vegas Sphere Clears Key Approvals Hurdle March 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes That giant multimedia sphere going up in Las Vegas could eventually have a twin in the east end of London, as plans for an MSG Sphere recently cleared another approvals hurdle in England. MSG Sphere London is backed by Madison Square Garden’s MSG Entertainment division, the same company behind the one in Las Vegas that …
US Grocer Startup Includes Touchless Self-Checkout In Frictionless Experience Mix March 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes A U.S. grocery start-up that’s pairing healthy foods with frictionless shopping is including touchless self-checkout screens as part of its technology mix. Called Nourish + Bloom Market, the Georgia-based company has plans to include self-checkout terminals that use hand-tracking hardware and related software from Ultraleap as part of the shopping experience. The store is billed …
Signagelive, meldCX Partner On Retail Audience Measurement Solution March 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Aussie AI and IoT software and solutions firm meldCX has gone into a new partnership with UK digital signage firm Signagelive to market and deliver retail-centric screen solutions that are informed and driven by audience measurement data. The companies liken what they can collectively measure and use to the kinds of analytics Youtube generates, …
Miami Art Exhibit Creates Flat Panel Spectacle To Show “Hollowness Of Spectacle” March 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes Warning: art-speak ahead … This is a digital art piece running on a stack of seven narrow bezel 55″ LCDs at the Pérez Art Museum Miami – a seven minute ode to movies and … something. Marco Brambilla describes the piece, Heaven’s Gate, as a “video monument to Hollywood’s veneration of glamour, while retelling the …
E Ink’s Newest Color Displays Boost Color And Contrast; Intended As Print Poster Replacements March 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes E Ink continues to evolve the capabilities of its color e-paper – with a new version of its larger format displays substantially boosting both its color and contrast metrics. The latest generation of the Taiwan company’s Advanced Color ePaper (ACeP) platform, called E Ink Gallery Plus, has a color gamut “ideally reaching” 60,000, and a …
Watch: UK Firm Using LED In Building Glass For Event Marketing March 23, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is an effective demo video showing what LED embedded glass looks like and does – from a UK company called Versatile Venues. The tech is from a Korean company that specializes in LEDs in glass – G-Smatt. It has a website that loads like it is 1996, but eventually text and images pop up …
