A Robotic 3D Video Wall … From 1990 August 31, 2017 by Super User Hat Tip @johnbirchman We told you yesterday about a 1967 robotic video wall (well, sorta … it was photo slides, not videos). Here’s another example of a big video wall doing the robotic three-dimensional thing Coca-Cola has unveiled in Times Square. This one is from 1990, at the Epcot (Disney) theme park in Orlando. The …
Coca-Cola’s Crazy Robotic 3D LED Wall In Times Square Had A Forerunner … In 1967! August 30, 2017 by Super User Scala’s Chief Product Officer Peter Cherna had a first-hand look recently at that robotic three-dimensional LED board that Coca-Cola bankrolled and installed in Times Square earlier this month, and it reminded him of something he saw as a kid some 50 years ago. “As someone who grew up in Montreal, Expo 67 was a part …
We’re Partnering On International Digital Signage Awards Program August 30, 2017 by Super User I’m a big believer in industry awards programs and always baffled by how few companies in this industry go after them. There are many, many reasons to be skeptical and jaded about awards. They can be political. Pay to play. Slanted to favorites. Or just plain stupid. But they can also be very good – …
Flash Is Done; Time For Digital Signage To Fully Adopt HTML5 August 30, 2017 by Paul Croubalian Guest Post: Paul Vincent, Neuranet Most computer technologies come and go quickly, with few people outside of software engineering noticing. But Adobe’s Flash was a major technology that lasted 20 years, and was familiar to just about any consumer with a laptop or smartphone. Consumers knew about the frequent updates needed for the Flash player plug-in, and …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Zach Klima, WaitTime August 30, 2017 by Super User If your digital signage screens are there to make something faster, better or easier for the people who are looking at them, you are doing good things. That’s the idea behind a Detroit start-up called WaitTime – a digital signage and smartphone app solution that uses cameras and artificial intelligence software to give people at …
McDonald’s Does Multi-Year Digital Innovation Deal With Consulting Giant August 29, 2017 by Super User McDonald’s has done a multi-year deal with a couple of monster consulting companies, Capgemini Group and Publicis.Sapient, to be the QSR giant’s global IT strategic provider for restaurant and digital capabilities. The press release is a lot of buzzword bingo, back-patting blah-blah-blah but the Chicago Tribune has decoded it and reports the deal will speed up digital innovation …
Data Call Weathers Harvey, Thanks To Elevation, And The Good Kind Of Cloud Right Now August 29, 2017 by Super User A couple of industry friends in Houston have managed to so far make it through the ceaseless storm dubbed Harvey with minimal impacts. Tim Vance, CEO of subscription content provider Data Call Technologies, sent a note out on Linkedin letting people know business has not been disrupted, despite the immediate area around his street-level office space …
DSF Opens Up Nominations For Two-Year Board Seats August 28, 2017 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation has started accepting nominations for two-year seats on the volunteer organization’s Board of Directors, with the terms starting in the new year. DSF members can be nominated by other members, or just go ahead and nominate themselves, which sounds much easier. Candidates must be: Employed by a DSF Member; Willing to serve …
Outcome Health Hires Away Twitter’s Engineering Head August 28, 2017 by Super User Hat tip @davidweinfeld The woman who ran Twitter’s engineering division has joined Chicago-based Outcome Health as its chief engineering officer. Nandini Ramani, Twitter’s former vice president of engineering, told CNBC she loves the “mission-driven aspects of health care and also the re-energizing of an industry.” Ramani told CNBC she was also intrigued by the digital OOH network, …
New Zealand’s 1,200-Site Giggle Network Seems Anything But Laughable August 28, 2017 by Super User Many of the business models for digital out of home ad networks have been laughable, but a New Zealand-based network is finding success with a business model built around laughs. The Giggle Entertainment Network has screens in 1,200 locations across New Zealand – running a one-hour repeating programming channel that’s built around jokes, funny tweets, …
