Verizon Discontinues The Digital Signage Service You Maybe Didn’t Know Existed March 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes Large telecoms companies have a history, all over the place, of entering the digital signage market with big plans and then, after it doesn’t work out, slipping quietly out the side door. The latest variation on this tale involves US telecoms giant Verizon, which has let its ecosystem and customers know it has shut down …
More Evidence Google Is Coming Back To Digital Signage: It’s A DSE Sponsor Now March 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes Google raised a lot of eyebrows about seven years ago when it booked and kitted out a big footprint booth at the old Digital Signage Expo, but that was about a big a splash or impact the tech Godzilla made on the industry in the months and years that followed. Now the company appears to …
New Lisbon Hotel Makes Projection-Mapped Garden-Patio Its Main Draw March 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes Permanent projection mapping jobs are growing common for a bunch of technical and cost reasons, to a point that the technology and creative can now be used for efforts like the ambient entertainment at a hotel. This is the enclosed garden-patio area of the Lumen Hotel in Lisbon, which now runs a daily “Light of …
Bat Signal Flashes In Movie Promo Running On World’s Tallest Ad Display March 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes The tallest building on the planet – the Burj Khalifa in Dubai – is clad in LED light sticks that have enabled it to show visuals like very basic messages, huge photos and things like country colors. But I hadn’t really thought about the skyscraper’s media facade having tight enough pixels to run multimedia campaigns. …
Demand For Super Fine Pitch LED Spiked In Q4 2021: Omdia March 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes Demand for super fine pitch large format LED displays spiked in the last quarter of 2021, according to the latest numbers research firm Omdia’s LED Video Displays Intelligence Service. Researcher Tay Taehoon Kim regularly pushes out a helpful teaser via Linkedin that rounds up some of the observed activity, and the one from overnight suggests …
14 LED Columns, Lighting, Wind-Driven Walls, Sync To Deliver Arrival Experience At Palm Springs-Area Resort March 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes It’s logical to think about the experience at a venue starting when visitors walk through the front doors, but it can actually start in the moments when people come on the property. That’s the thinking behind what’s termed the arrival experience at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa outside of Palm Springs, CA, which now …
Vancouver’s Ynvisible Says Its New E-Paper Displays Cut Energy Usage In Half March 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes Energy consumption and form factor are two of the key attributes of e-paper displays, so it’s notable when a company announces it has developed a version of it’s product that cuts power usage in half and has what it says are the thinnest, lightest displays on the market. Vancouver, BC-based manufacturer Ynvisible Interactive says its …
LED Mainstreamed: New Tribal Community Center In Wisconsin Has 13 Big LED Displays March 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes A deployment of screens at a community center in upstate Wisconsin won’t set any pulses racing for what was done or what’s on the screens, but it is interesting in terms of the scale of the job and the owners. The Forest County Potawatomi Native American band Indian opened an ambitious community center in late …
Electrosonic, Igloo Vision Partner On Projection Mapping For Workspaces March 2, 2022 by Dave Haynes The PR needs to be read a few times to cut through all the marketing blah-blah-blah stuff, but if you stick with the effort, you learn the experience-focused pro AV integrator Electrosonic has developed a partnership with Igloo Vision to kit out workplaces with immersive collaboration spaces – rooms filled floor to ceiling with visuals. UK-based …
Jason Cremins Explains Why He’s Gone Headless With Signagelive March 2, 2022 by Dave Haynes One of the terms the digital signage community is going to start seeing more often is headless CMS – the idea of getting away from the walled garden nature of many to most digital signage platforms and instead offering something that is open and flexible. Most software platforms out there are still variations on walled …
