DSE Reboot Pushed Back To November; Q4 Time Window Going Forward January 26, 2022 by Dave Haynes The industry-specific trade show re-booted as Digital Signage Experience has been pushed back to November 2022 – another event affected by the pandemic that keeps on going. The show was supposed to run in late March in Las Vegas as a new take on the Digital Signage Expo show and conference that ran for some …
Rome’s Airport Upgrades Check-In Hall With Vast 600 Sq. M. LED Video Wall January 26, 2022 by Dave Haynes The upgraded check-in hall at T1 of Rome-Fiumicino airport now includes what is billed as the largest LED video wall in a European airport – a 600 square meter, L-shaped beast. The 4.8mm pitch display was supplied by the Chinese LED manufacturer LianTronics. I am not sure who bankrolled this – a media company or …
Expo 2020 Exhibit Mashes Up Kiosk, AR, Selfies And Projection Mapping January 26, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Al Wasl Plaza is one of the signature locations at the Expo 2020 exhibition that was COVID-delayed and now running through March in Dubai. There is a lot of technology all through the Expo site, but a Linkedin post via Christie shows a particularly inventive way to blend interactive kiosks, selfies, AR and projection …
Anders Apelgren On How Visual Art’s Turnkey Digital Signage Offer Is Expanding Beyond Nordics January 26, 2022 by Dave Haynes So many companies in the digital signage ecosystem are all about the technology, still, so it’s interesting to come across a tech company that functions as a turnkey provider, but leads with the creative aspect. It’s even in the name – Visual Art. The Swedish company started roughly 25 years ago, and has steadily expanded …
Quebec Restaurant Chain Starts Deploying Touchless Kiosk Screens January 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes The pandemic has triggered a lot of discussion about the merits of touchless technologies over physical touchscreens, but there’s not a lot of evidence that touchless is being adopted. The core argument is around how touchless removes the health safety risk of physically touching a screen to do things like orders, payments and information look-ups. …
LED Goes Mainstream: Now There Are LED Video Walls In Car Washes January 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes If you needed more evidence for your argument that LED video wall technology has shifted from being a specialty product to a mainstream one, consider the Niagara Carwash chain in Germany, which is putting large-ish video walls inside those facilities. The German publisher and consultancy Invidis reports: The branches of Niagara Carwash are intended to …
StratosMedia Adds QR Code Tracking, Management To Digital Signage CMS January 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes The lowly QR code – for many years seemingly more the subject of discussion than use – got a huge boost from the pandemic, with those more detailed bar codes popping up as a means to relay information and links during times of steady change, and also enable touch-free interactions. That jump is usage happened …
Screenfeed Adds Beijing Olympics Coverage To Sports Central Content Feed January 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes Among the way-too-many things COVID-19 has thrown out of whack is the traditionally staggered calendar for the Summer and Winter Olympics, with the delayed-by-a-year Tokyo summer games over just months ago and the winter version in Beijing now just days away. The subscription content firm Screenfeed has once again developed a short-term specialized feed for …
Projection-Mapping Campaign In London Hints At Countdown Timer Tension For TV Bomb Squad January 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes A lot of the projection-mapping on large buildings has been for special events and longer-term, scheduled public shows, but here’s a case in London in which it was used for a short period to count down to the opening episode of a new TV series. A countdown clock was projected this past weekend on the …
Fun Interactive DOOH Campaign Takes Dark Turn With Passersby January 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes The province of Quebec’s auto insurance arm ran an interactive, gesture-driven Digital OOH campaign that started out as fun but then turned very dark about the dangers of jaywalking on city streets. The Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec campaign traces back to 2018 but I missed it first time around. A video has been …
