Puma Opens Screen-Filled Immersive Skill Cube In NYC Flagship Store October 30, 2019 by Super User A lot of athletic shoe flagship stores in NYC seem to build their signature customer experiences around hoops, which makes sense for many reasons, but Puma’s new flagship is focused instead on what the Brits call footy. The Skill Cube immerses visitors in a room fitted 270° floor to ceiling with narrow bezel LCD screens, supplemented …
Listen To The Conversation From Coffee And Controversy 2019 October 30, 2019 by Super User A couple of weeks back I was in New York for the annual Digital Signage Federation Coffee and Controversy event, which I moderated. I was able to grab audio last year and post as a podcast, and this year we managed the same. The audio is OK, at best, but you should be able to …
A Quick Look At New Digital Signage In Downtown San Francisco October 29, 2019 by Super User I was in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago to see all the Samsung/PrismView LED and smart displays at the new Chase Center, but I also had a couple of free hours to have a quick look around. I’ve seen the LED displays in the lobbies of the cluster of Salesforce office towers downtown, …
1,312 Dining Positions Projection-Mapped For Amway Celebration Dinner October 29, 2019 by Super User Hat Tip AV Magazine The multi-level marketing company Amway celebrated 60 years in business with a massive dinner for 1,300 in Las Vegas, using projection-mapping at each diner’s seating position. The private dinner at the Mandalay Bay was pulled together by event agency Wilson Dow, which contracted the projection mapping company Skullmapping, which has a background doing this …
Canada’s CBC Fills Election Night Set With Direct-view LED October 29, 2019 by Super User Canada had its federal election last week – a five week or so sprint of an election instead of the ones south of us, in the US, which seemingly never really end. One of the national broadcasters – the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – had a one-night elections set that heavily used direct view LED to …
Houston Office Block Enlivens Lobby With 32′ by 18′ LED Wall October 28, 2019 by Super User Here’s another example of what I assume will continue to be a trend in the commercial property business to enliven the lobbies of their big buildings with large format LED displays. In this case, it is 1100 Louisiana, an office block owned by the international real estate firm Hines. Ground-floor renovations to the building included …
DSE Opens Registration For 2020; Offers 20% Off Conference Pkgs For Early-Birds October 28, 2019 by Super User Registration has now opened for the 2020 edition of Digital Signage Expo (DSE), which is set for March 31 – April 3 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Atlanta-based show organizers say DSE 2020 will offer more than 100 educational opportunities, including 12 pre- and post-show events, 21 industry-specific peer networking luncheon roundtables, 32 …
Another Shape-Shifting LED Screen Surfaces, This Time In Malaysia October 28, 2019 by Super User You’d think when a top five global brand has a dismal failure with its splashy, expensive and very high profile robotic LED display, that would get around to the potential user base and put the brakes on other deep-pocketed companies trying the same thing. Apparently not … This is somewhere in Malaysia – probably Kuala …
Sharp’s UK Wing Bucks SoC Trend; Reselling BitVu’s CMS And Teeny Standalone Player October 28, 2019 by Super User In the last two or three years there has been a pretty big shift by the main display manufacturers to bring CMS software companies on to their “smart” signage screens, so it’s interesting to see Sharp’s UK Business wing announcing it is partnering to re-sell a platform that has a separate, proprietary standalone player. Sharp …
If You’re Entering Awards, Treat Your Work, And Submission, Seriously October 25, 2019 by Super User Guest Post: Bryan Crotaz, Silver Curve I’ve been on the jury of five European digital signage awards over the past 10 years, and I’ve seen the same simple mistake over and over again. I’ll let you into the judging room secrets here if Dave will allow me to divulge. The rules for the jury are …
