WHSmith Store Uses Massive Digital Facade For New London Stansted Airport Store November 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes Technical details have eluded me, but what I do know is the just-opened WHSmith store at London Stansted Airport went all-in with digital – with a huge, all-digital facade facing the concourse and screens all through the store. The travel retail focused online publication Moodie Davitt Report was at the store opening Wednesday and filed …
Ultraleap Raises $82M From Investors To Drive R&D, Sales For Touchless Interactive Tech November 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes Ultraleap, the UK/US tech firm that specializes in touchless interactive interfaces, has announced a big $82 million Series D investment round that will help drive R&D efforts and a push into target vertical markets. The company, which came out of the merger of Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion, specializes in mid-air hand tracking and haptic feedback …
Rebooted DSE Starts To Announce Exhibitors; Adopts NYC-Inspired Floor Plan For Hall November 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes In looking at the background on the DSF partnership with Questex, I noticed the business events company has started making announcements about exhibitors who have now committed to the Digital Signage Experience floor in late March in Vegas. There are only seven eight listed right now, but I have heard from at least a couple …
DSF, Questex Formalize Business Ties Ahead Of Rebooted DSE November 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Federation has developed deeper business ties with the events firm that is rebooting the longtime DSE trade show and conference as Digital Signage Experience in March 2022. The DSF has worked an arrangement with Questex to join the conference as an Industry Association partner. DSE takes place March 22-24, 2022 in Las …
WaitTime Expands Crowd Analytics Service Into Mega-Malls In Cisco-Intel Partnership November 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes The load-balancing outcomes the Detroit start-up WaitTime brings to sports and entertainment venues has always seemed like a smart play, but I am not sure about the company’s new partnership with tech giants Cisco and Intel for places like giant shopping malls. The three have “collaborated to deliver an artificial intelligence (AI) solution that provides …
COO Blake Sabatinelli Relates How Atmosphere TV Streams 50+ Channels Of Content To Digital Signs In 14,000 Venues November 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes Screens in bars, restaurants and all kinds of venues have been part of the mix for decades, and there have been all kinds of different takes on what to put on those screens that not only entertains and occupies guests, but also has tangible business impacts. Straight-up digital signage solutions give venue operators the ability …
TransitScreen Rebrands Its Visualized Transport Info Platform As Actionfigure November 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Washington, DC start-up that has focused on real-time public display dashboards for mass transport and mobility options in big cities has rebranded itself from TransitScreen to Actionfigure. Our Actionfigure rebrand brings all of our software solutions together under a single name with a unified look and feel, the company says in an email blast today. …
High-End Guangzhou Restaurant Uses Projection On Walls, Table To Create Immersive Dining Experience November 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a fine-dining restaurant in the south China port city of Guangzhou that set up a dedicated VIP dining room that uses wall and overhead projection to create an immersive dining experience. The restaurant adopted a unique “Maritime Silk Road” theme that relates a time when that area was not the world epicenter of electronics …
LED Mainstreamed: B.C. Golf Resort Hotel Adds 63-Foot Fine Pitch Video Wall For Weddings And Meetings November 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes In another sign that LED video walls are now a mainstreamed pro AV and digital signage solution, here is a giant 256-cabinet LED wall in the multi-purpose room of a resort hotel in Victoria, B.C. The ballroom video wall at the Westin Bear Mountain Golf Resort & Spa is 63 feet wide and 9 feet …
This Is National World Needs More Touch Day (And National Bundt Pan Day) November 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes In a clever, cheeky marketing move, the folks at TSItouch have registered with a service that marks today at The World Needs More Touch Day – which also happens to be the touch overlay company’s tag line. Says the listing on the National Day Archives listings site: World Needs More Touch Day serves to bring …
