Digital Signage Greets Trick Or Treaters At The Doorstep With This Clever Home Project October 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is very clever, though more than a little weather-dependant in its execution. Mathew Meiers of the longtime digital signage CMS firm Rise Vision rigged up a flat panel screen on his front porch to hand out treats for Halloween – with the on-screen content carefully lined up to match a skeleton that sits behind …
Functionality Beats Wow Factor, For A Change, In Use Of Big Sony Premium LED Wall October 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s a case of a premium fine pitch video wall going into a business for functional reasons, as opposed to many of the Wow Factor jobs that are mainly intended to impress viewers in places like corporate lobbies. It’s a curved Sony Crystal LED wall being used by an aerospace contractor to review drawings and …
InfoComm Underway, Exhibit Hall Opens Tomorrow October 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes InfoComm is on this week in Orlando, with the the Digital Signage Federation running its D=Sign education event today in collaboration with AVIXA. It will be super-interesting to get photos, video and commentary on how the show works and operates this week, as I will not be there in person. COVID, among a billion things, …
AVI-SPL Launches New Experiential Tech Business Unit October 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes Pro AV integrator giant AVI-SPL has launched a new business unit – XTG (Experience Technology Group) – focused on servicing the increasing demand it says it is seeing for immersive, and interactive brand and employee experiences. XTG is building on AVI-SPL’s rich heritage and reputation, says the company in announcing the service, by specializing in …
London Coffee Shop Uses Projection To Create Wall-Filling, Animated Ordering Menus October 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes When industry people think about digitizing menus for the quick service and fast casual restaurant industries, they’re almost certainly thinking about how many flat panel displays will be needed, and where they’ll go. But using projection on the walls behind counters offers an interesting, very flexible alternative solution. This is a coffee shop in London …
Three Giant LED Heads Drive “The Conversation” On Boston-Area Building October 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes This an interesting new community art project in the Somerville area of metro Boston that uses an array of LED light sticks to create three giant heads on the 90-degree corner of a building there. The six-storey tall, head-shaped LED art spectacular is called The Conversation and it formally went live this weekend at a …
Rebooted DSE Lines Up Data Viz Artist Refik Anadol As Keynote Speaker October 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes In a move I would describe as cheeky, the team pulling together the DSE reboot in March has announced its keynote speaker – just as InfoComm starts its exhibits and conferences this week in Orlando. It’s a great “get” for Questex – Refik Anadol, the most known and arguably successful creator in the emerging discipline …
AV Vendor Draper Nearing Funds Goal For Wounded US Military Vet October 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to the folks at the AV mounts and gear firm Draper, which is nearing a fundraising goal that would provide a mobility chair to a catastrophically wounded U.S. military veteran. Sue Downes, a mother of two from Tazewell, TN, sustained serious injuries while serving as a Corporal with a military police unit in …
New Midtown NYC Skyscraper’s Top Floors Have Much More Than Just A Great View; Features Immersive, Experiential Observatory October 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes A new tourist ands event destination opened way up high in New York on Thursday – what’s described as the world’s most immersive observatory experience. The ribbon was cut to open SUMMIT One Vanderbilt, a multi-level space put together 1,063 feet above Madison Avenue in midtown Manhattan. The features include immersive art experiences supported, in …
More Evidence LED Video Walls Are Mainstreamed: A Fish Counter At A Supermarket Has Vast Video Wall October 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes Via Invidis It really was just a few years ago when fine pitch indoor LED walls started being marketed by manufacturers, with buyers expressing a lot of excitement … until they learned how much walls like that would cost. Fast-forward to now – in a hyper-competitive marketplace with an almost countless number of manufacturers around …
