Boston Market Building’s Atrium Transformed Through Indoor Projection-Mapping December 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a really interesting use of an otherwise unproductive atrium space in a market building in Quincy, MA, a south Boston suburb. The Gallery at Kilroy Square is now an interactive canvas for local and regional digital artists that will switch out exhibitions easily, because the main delivery mechanism is projection mapping. The program …
Telecine Continues Its Tradition Of Laughter-Filled Holiday Season Videos December 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes I wondered if the folks at Montreal’s Telecine Multimedia would do another loopy holiday season video this year, as they dealt with the shock and grief of losing their founder James Fine this fall to cancer. They compromised – putting together something of a highlights reel that is punctuated with a lot of smiles and …
ISE’s Show Manager Says Barcelona Event Pressing Ahead, As Global COVID Cases Soar December 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes The show manager for Integrated Systems Europe says the exhibition and conference is going ahead in Barcelona as planned, unless Spanish government restrictions make that impossible. Mike Blackman told UK-based AV Interactive the event slated for the start of February is very much on. He noted in an interview that stands for some of the …
Huge Mesh LED Clads Side Of Shenzhen’s Broadcasting Center December 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes It’s a little disappointing to see one of the largest LED manufacturers in the world putting out misleading marketing messages, but I suppose the same could be said about assertions made over the years by flat panel display giants. If you have been around this industry for a while, you will recall seeing lots of …
Experiential Video Wall Greets Visitors To NAB’s New HQ Building December 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes The National Association of Broadcasters, or NAB, recently relocated its headquarters, and the new venue features a pair of experiential digital features that greet and inform visitors. The Washington, D.C. headquarters in the Ballpark District includes a 17 x 12 foot LED video wall in the lobby, and a five-panel digital Hall of Fame touchscreen …
Lots Of Second Thoughts About Making ISE Trip As Giant Covid Wave Keeps Building December 20, 2021 by Dave Haynes I did a little poll on Linkedin last week that asked readers about their plans for going to Integrated Systems Europe, which opens in Barcelona six weeks from now. The poll – which has imprecise questions that would make proper pollsters do pre-teen girl eye-rolls – asked if COVID-19 case counts rocketing up once again …
Need A Fireplace, But Not Its Heat? No Problem … December 20, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a clever little makeshift project that makes it possible to have a holiday season fireplace feature in a home or office, without the smoke or heat build-up of a real log-burner. It’s particularly useful in a place like Hawaii, which doesn’t have a lot lot of need for a real fireplace. Mark Tawara, …
Motion Tracking Dynamically Animates St. Louis Arts Center’s Digital Donor Wall December 20, 2021 by Dave Haynes The new University Campus of the Center of Creative Arts in St. Louis, MO has made a 20-foot wide interactive display a visual centerpiece for the multidisciplinary community arts organization, using a motion-tracking system to react to the actions of onlookers. The wall was put together by the Boston-based creative technology firm SOSO. From start …
Does The Digital Signage CMS Software Sector Have A Security Issue? December 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes Coders at a whole bunch of digital signage management software companies, as well as all the solutions providers and integrators out there who use CMS software, may be paying close attention to the status and fixes for a security vulnerability found last week in widely-used logging software that’s based on Java. The vulnerability in what’s …
Samsung To Digitize NY Mets Ballpark With 1,300-plus Screens December 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes Samsung has a deal with Major League Baseball’s New York Mets that will see the team’s ballpark kitted out with more than 1,300 screens, including a new LED scoreboard looming over centerfield. The Citi Field upgrade – touted by Samsung as one of the largest single projects in all of pro sports – will start …
