Live Data Sculpture On Warsaw Mall Facade Reacts To Nearby Pedestrians, Traffic November 7, 2019 by Super User This is a live data sculpture on a large street-facing LED display on a mall in Warsaw, Poland. Called Symulakra, the visualized content is directly influenced by things like car traffic on the nearby street and data from cell phones of people gathered around the screen, such as the general intensity of mobile internet usage, …
Trey Courtney Details How Mood Media Delivers Sensory Experiences In Retail November 6, 2019 by Super User There’s a decent chance that when you walk into a retailer in a developed country, and you hear music or some sort of in-store audio playing, that’s Mood Media. The company is in more than half a million subscriber locations in a 100-plus countries delivering in-store media solutions. While that started with music, it was …
Broadsign Adds Clear Channel’s Digital Inventory To Its Reach OOH Platform November 5, 2019 by Super User DOOH-focused software firm Broadsign has done a nice partnership deal that has Clear Channel Outdoor making its USA digital OOH inventory available via the Montreal company’s programmatic supply-side platform Reach. The integration means Reach’s inventory now exceeds 35,000 screens across the U.S. Clear Channel’s installed base includes 1,600 digital bulletins, posters, spectaculars and transit shelters …
Sports Teams Adopting LED Video Walls As Changeable Media Room Backdrops November 5, 2019 by Super User Technology companies are always looking for new markets or at least new use cases, and LED manufacturers have found one few would have predicted – media rooms for sports teams. They’re using fine pitch direct view LED displays as the backdrops for pre and post-game interviews with the athletes and coaches of college and professional …
Giant Information Towers Target Trade Show Attendees In Dortmund November 5, 2019 by Super User Navigation help and current information are very important in big footprint facilities like convention centers and exhibition halls, so it’s interesting to see the solution that went in this fall at the Messe Dortmund in Germany. Working with the German digital signage software and solutions company dimedis, the Messe put in 18 multi-function information columns – …
New Cruise Ship Features 305 Foot LED Barrel Ceiling November 4, 2019 by Super User Moving to a coastal city that’s a tourist magnet means I now see giant cruise ships all summer and fall when we get down to the harbor. Some days, there are as many as five ships docked in Halifax. I am steadily amazed at how insanely big the newest ships are, and one that’s launching …
30,000 Feet Of Programmable LEDs Drive New Guitar Hotel’s Media Facade November 1, 2019 by Super User This is the LED lighting show on the newly opened Guitar Hotel at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino just outside of Miami. The 34-story destination resort has nearly 30,000 linear feet of programmable LEDs that wrap the building and conform to the unique contoured exterior. The vertical guitar strings on the building extend …
Pizza Outlet Fails To Launch Its Digital Signage November 1, 2019 by Super User Stuff fails. Connectors work loose. Software hangs. It all happens. But this is still pretty bad. An industry friend sent along this image from last night, when he was picking up a pizza at a Domino’s in the US Northeast. One screen out. The other in some sort of Failure To Launch mode with its …
Coates Starts Marketing Sleek Self-Service Kiosks For QSR October 31, 2019 by Super User The Aussie-based, QSR-focused digital signage and retail solutions firm Coates Group has started marketing a self-service screen it says pushes the boundaries on kiosk design. Called the K2, presumably named after the lofty, hard-to-climb Himalayas peak, the touchscreen unit looks like a big, sleek tablet with a payment unit at its bottom. “The release of …
Does MIRROR’s Success Offer New Life To Digital Signage Mirror Displays? October 30, 2019 by Super User I think it is reasonable to suggest the whole magic mirror/LCD display embedded in mirror glass thing has been something less than a runaway success in digital signage. I see them in “stores of the future” and one-off whiz-bang installs, but don’t get any sense they’re widely installed by or for anyone. Perhaps the mainstreaming …
