RMG Acquired By Its Chairman And A Private Equity Firm; Goes Back To Being Private Company October 4, 2018 by Super User The winding road that has characterized the story of RMG Networks in the last 10 years has added another turn with news that the Dallas-based digital signage solutions company has been acquired and taken off the stock market, converted to a privately-held entity. The transaction being announced Thursday was led by Austin, TX-based Virgo Capital, …
Interactive Wall, Touted As World’s Largest, Switches On At Riyadh Rail Hub October 3, 2018 by Super User This is what’s being billed as the largest interactive video wall on the planet – set in a rail hub in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The project was put together for the Saudi Arabia Railway (SAR) by the huge Spanish integrator Trison. The job required a curved interactive screen that would be 37 meters wide and 1.2 meters …
Red Rocks Update Concessions With Outdoor-Ready Digital Menu Boards October 3, 2018 by Super User The famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre south of Denver resolved a big issue around the concert venue with keeping food and drinks concession signage timely and accurate – resorting to printing and manually replacing static signage at each individual stand. That changed this year as the venue worked with Ping HD, Peerless AV and Samsung to …
Peter Livesey Discusses Esprit Digital’s Rise From The London Underground October 3, 2018 by Super User Anyone with technical chops who uses a subway system to get around would understand that those are seriously challenging environments to put in sensitive display technology – and the UK display technology company Esprit Digital effectively got its start in digital signage doing just that. If you have been in the signage market for a …
Another Subway, Another Wind-blown Hair Model October 2, 2018 by Super User As the saying goes, everything old is new again. In this case, we have the Montreal-based out of home media company Astral doing a campaign in the subway system that updates an idea that first (maybe) surfaced a few years ago in the Stockholm subway. In both cases, a video on a digital screen or …
Moscow Subway Kiosk Demands Riders Give It 30 Squats, For A Free Ticket October 2, 2018 by Super User Today in Stupid People Tricks in Digital Out Of Home we have the people of Moscow being asked to do 30 squats in front of a subway kiosk to then get a free ride. The Moscow metro system, presumably in some sports-themed co-promotion with the Visa credit card people, has set up a camera-based sensor …
New Balance Uses Machine Learning With Digital Poster To ID And Reward NYC Fashionistas October 1, 2018 by Super User The footwear brand New Balance did an interesting machine learning-driven digital signage piece on the streets of New York recently, putting up a screen and sensors that scanned approaching pedestrians and flagging those people who weren’t dressing like everyone else. The “activation” – run for a day during New York Fashion Week – used camera-based …
LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall In Projection-Mapped Dream State This Week October 1, 2018 by Super User That week-long projection-mapping job on the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA is now live, and judging from photos, looks amazing. The Los Angeles Philharmonic collaborated with digital media artist Refik Anadol (hear a recent podcast I did with him) to come up with a data-driven set of visuals that illuminate metallic skin of the …
Bloomingfail: 50 Gorgeous LG OLEDs Largely Hidden By Fixtures At NYC Flagship’s New Pop-Up Shop September 28, 2018 by Super User The 59th Street NYC flagship of Bloomingdale’s is using two walls of LG commercial OLEDs as feature backdrops for its new new rotating pop-up shop, called The Carousel. The idea behind The Carousel @ Bloomingdale’s is to tell “culturally relevant stories driven by guest curators, each with a unique theme and an unexpected mix of products …
SICOM Acquired By Global Payments In $415M Cash Deal September 28, 2018 by Super User SICOM Systems, which provides digital signage, POS and other software solutions into the QSR and fast casual restaurant sect ors, has been acquired by Global Payments, which does payment technology and software solutions. Global, based in Atlanta, paid roughly $415 million in cash for the transaction. The S&P 500-listed company says, in a press release, it …
