Texas A&M Pimped Out Its Football Locker Room With Digital Signage, Too … In 2014 September 12, 2017 by Super User So when I saw video of the University of Texas Longhorns’ football locker room, with LCD screens over every locker, it occurred to me that this was going to be something that would get emulated by other schools. Turns out that U of T borrowed on something another big football program, Texas A&M’s Aggies, did …
Real-Time Data On UK Billboards Reminds Traffic-Jammed Motorists They Should’ve Taken Train September 11, 2017 by Super User Virgin Trains launched a dead-simple digital OOH campaign in the UK this week that very effectively uses real-time data to tell motorists crawling along choked motorways that’d they’d likely have been far wiser to take a train. The campaign for the railway, conceived by Virgin Train’s agency Anomaly and pulled off by the digital shop …
How Interactive Digital Signage Enhance Customer Experiences September 11, 2017 by DanDawson Guest Post: Richard Murton, Display Technology These days, the importance of engaging with customers is widely recognized – as is the ever-increasing difficulty of doing so. The simple fact of the matter is that customers are becoming highly expert at deploying their own, internal “anti-spam” filters, to deal with all the calls on their attention …
Holographic Display On Coming Smartphone A Precursor To Larger Digital Signage Versions? September 8, 2017 by Super User A spin-off from HP Labs is working with RED – the high-def digital camera guys – to release a smartphone that features a holographic display – a glimpse at tech that also has digital signage touted as a use-case. Red Digital Cinema is working with Leia Inc on what’s being billed as the world’s first …
Luis Is Back From Holiday, And He’s Broke And (Still) Cranky September 8, 2017 by Mitch Leathers Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler It’s been a long summer… and I have fully enjoyed it. I have worked half-days since early June, and taken about five weeks worth of holidays. If I have to go to the beach again, I will literally jump out a window. I started September in economic distress (traveling with …
Pat Hellberg, A Bottle of Cotes Du Rhone, And A Blender September 8, 2017 by Super User People who’ve been around the digital signage industry for a few years will know Pat Hellberg from his days starting and running Nike’s retail signage network, and then from his time as a partner, with me, in the Preset Group consultancy. We wound Preset down at the end of 2016 because Pat was in a …
Digital Signage Display Market Forecasted To Grow By 18% Annually September 7, 2017 by Super User The digital signage display market is expected to see a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.2% over the next four years, with the biggest growth coming in displays that are 65-inches or larger. The forecast comes from research firm IHS Markit, one of a small handful of companies that actually invests real time, people and …
Cruise Line Uses 25-Foot LED Vortex As Centerpiece September 6, 2017 by Super User Here’s an interesting example of how three-dimensional visuals and crazy idea can be baked into content and served up on a very unusual display canvas – in this case the central court of a monster cruise ship. This is a 25 foot tall vortex-shaped LED column in the atrium of the Carnival Vista, a ship …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: David Douglas-Beveridge, SmartContent.TV September 6, 2017 by Super User If you spend any time clicking around the internet, you are very quickly going to bump into a website that is using a slider – a piece of browser functionality that shifts text, images and video in and out of a web page. The most heavily used slider out there comes from a German company …
UK Town’s Shiny New Digital Information Station Hijacked With Porn Site September 5, 2017 by Super User Via Telford Live The person behind a local news portal in Telford, UK, northwest of Birmingham, came across one of the combined wayfinding and digital media totems in the town centre, and noticed the community information normally running on the screen had been replaced by a gallery of naughty video thumbnails. The writer notes this …
