LED Tunnel Creates Immersive Experience For MLB All-Star Fans September 22, 2017 by Super User This is a nice temporary set-up using LED displays to create a tunnel effect for a FanFest indoor theme park during the annual Major League Baseball All-Star Game festivities, held this year in Miami. “Major League Baseball made it known three years ago that they were going to implement a tiered series of capital improvements …
Public And Retail Digital Experience – Play The Long View For Best ROI September 22, 2017 by Alan High Guest Post: Jeff Doud, MaxMedia Today’s consumers expect an experience. They don’t want to be sold stuff. Instead we should offer relevant lifestyle with usable chunks of information to provide context. Customer experience is more important than offers, discounts, direct messaging or raw branding efforts. Studying methods to engage customers with a soft touch is …
NanoLumens’ Cope Honored As Atlanta’s Veteran Entrepreneur Of Year September 21, 2017 by Super User Congratulations to NanoLumens founder and CEO Rick Cope, who was named 2017 Veteran Entrepreneur of the Year this morning by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, in partnership with the Metro Atlanta Chamber. Cope was one of six business leaders cited across different categories, at an awards ceremony held at the Georgia Aquarium. “I am honored and humbled by …
NEC Beefs Up Open Pluggable PC Line-Up For Digital Signage Displays, Projectors September 21, 2017 by Super User NEC Display Solutions has beefed up its line of Open Pluggable Specification (OPS) compliant computers that plug into the backs of displays and offer a Windows-based alternative to the increasing numbers of smart system on chip displays being sold in the digital signage market. The OPS computers now all include 64-bit Windows 10 Pro and …
Projection-Mapping Turns Vancouver Bridge Into Virtual Salmon Run September 21, 2017 by Super User This is the last weekend to see what appears to be an amazing projection mapping effort on the underside of one of Vancouver’s main bridges The Cambie Bridge’s underside is transformed into a wild B.C. river that shows the journey of migrating sockeye salmon in a 25-minute show, using cinematography from three B.C. rivers that …
Canadian Vacations Provider Sunwing Opens Digitally-Rich Pop-Up Store September 20, 2017 by Super User Canadian vacation travel company Sunwing has opened a pop-up store in one of Canada’s busiest and ritziest shopping malls, using big visuals and a lot of technology to get shoppers at Toronto’s Yorkdale Mall thinking about booking a flight to the tropics for when the snow flies. The Sunwing Concept Store was pulled together by Toronto’s bricks+matter – …
Hamptons’ Art Museum Uses LED Walls To Make Waves With Exhibition September 20, 2017 by Super User Via Installation A gallery in the ritzy Hamptons area of Long Island, NY has an exhibit running right now that builds big LED screens into the mix to show a series of digitally-generated waves. There is a pair of 15mm pitch LED walls on the gallery exterior visible to visitors and passing motorists, showing waves …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: David Labuskes, AVIXA September 20, 2017 by Super User I was in the Washington, DC area last week for what turned out to be the rebranding of Infocomm as AVIXA – a loose acronym for the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association. The trade association had invited me, and a pile of other trade journalists, for a press conference and follow-ups about … something. They …
DSF Firms Up Plan For Annual Coffee And Controversy Event In NYC September 18, 2017 by Super User The plan for the Digital Signage Federation’s annual Coffee and Controversy breakfast event during New York City Digital Signage Week now appears to be set, with three sessions on Oct. 31st instead of the one (could be wrong, never been) usually done. There’s a Global Perspective on Digital Signage thing, then one on Digital OOH, …
Video: Largest Outdoor 8mm LED Board On Planet September 15, 2017 by Super User Here’s video from that monster wraparound 8mm LED board that sparked up in Times Square this summer. Located at 701 7th Avenue (aka 20 Times Square), the wrap-around main screen is 91’4″ high and 186’4″ wide. Manufacturer/integrator SNA Displays says that makes it the largest 8mm outside LED board on the planet. The NFL will …
