180 Sq. Metres Of LED Bring London Skies Down To Medieval Passageway September 12, 2018 by Super User The property developer wanted to retain and highlight a medieval passageway that runs through the center of a new office tower development in London – uniquely using live 4K video streaming from a rooftop garden to fill the canvas of what is the largest ceiling-suspended LED screen in Europe. The development at Fen Court (10 …
Disney Concert Hall In LA To Get Projection-Mapped, Based On Music Data September 12, 2018 by Super User Via Curbed LA One of the more recognizable buildings in downtown Los Angeles – the Walt Disney Concert Hall – is getting projection-mapped later this month to celebrate the start of the LA Philharmonic’s new season. The Frank Gehry-designed building’s weird and wavy metallic surfaces will be the subjection of digital data projections from September 27 to October …
From The Archive: Michael Schneider On Experiential Digital Design September 12, 2018 by Super User No new podcast this week … sorry. I had two postponed interviews last week, combined with a short work week and then me spending two of those four days in a succession of airplanes getting to and from a client. I’m kinda remote now, and so are they. I have two chats scheduled for Thursday, …
Six Fine-Pitch LED Columns Welcome Visitors To Louis Vuitton Foundation September 11, 2018 by Super User This is the atrium of the Louis Vuitton Foundation building in Paris – a one-of-a-kind business and cultural center that is also an art museum and the global headquarters of LVMH, the parent company of Louis Vuitton. There are six fine-pitch LED columns welcoming guests and displaying artworks from the museum’s collection, as well as LV branded themes. …
AOPEN Releases Small-Format 15 & 19-Inch All-In-Ones For Win 10, Linux September 11, 2018 by Super User Taiwan-based digital signage hardware firm AOPEN has released a pair of small format all-in-one touch displays aimed at the self-service and retail market – the interesting twist being their support for Windows 10 and Linux. The company previously released all-in-ones built around ChromeOS, and the general trend of late has been all-in-ones using Android (which …
Stratacache CEO Expects Headcount To Top 1,000 By Early 2019 September 11, 2018 by Super User There’s a bunch of interesting nuggets of information in a local paper’s interview with Stratacache CEO Chris Riegel – most notably that he expects to be north of 1,000 employees within a year. Talking to the Dayton Daily News, Riegel says he’s now at 750, with 320 of them in Dayton. About 90 employees work …
First Buffalo Digital Signage Industry Mixer Set For Tuesday Night September 10, 2018 by Super User People in the Buffalo, NY-area active in digital signage are getting together tomorrow night in that city for a networking mixer, which I THINK was pulled together by Kevin Cosbey, who does biz dev for Arrow (Seneca). The event is from 6 to 9 pm at EXPO Market, 617 Main Street, in the central district. The first …
iBase Unveils Beefy New PC Digital Signage Player With NVIDIA Graphics Card September 10, 2018 by Super User The digital signage market seems to be shifting pretty significantly to special purpose boxes (like Brightsign’s) and smart displays, but there is still a market out there for PCs as players, and companies pushing out some beefy product. Taiwan’s iBase has announced its SI-614 digital signage player – a PC using a 7th Gen Intel …
DSF Planning Breakfast Education Series For Toronto September 10, 2018 by Super User The Toronto digital signage community is well known for getting together for drinks, but now they’re doing breakfasts, as well. The Digital Signage Federation (DSF) is in the organizing stages of a series of educational breakfast sessions to be held in the Greater Toronto Area. The sessions are intended to provide local members with education, …
NEC Gets Deeper Into Direct View LED September 7, 2018 by Super User The big LCD display manufacturers continue to get more deeply involved in direct view LED – a move driven at least in part by the migration of video wall business from LCD to genuinely seamless LED surfaces. NEC Display Solutions this week announced the launch of both outdoor and indoor products built off the acquisition …
