Subway Steps Up Digital Game; Adds Self-Ordering Kiosks, Menuboards June 19, 2017 by Super User Subway is stepping up its digital game, adding self-ordering kiosks and digital menuboards in a bid to reverse three years of declining sales. Bloomberg reports that Subway is testing about 50 self-ordering kiosks that allow people to walk in and tailor their order, instead of doing the back and forth ordering with the worker actually adding …
InfoComm 2017 – Pix From The Floor June 19, 2017 by Super User I’ve posted photos in earlier reports from last week at InfoComm, but here are some more that didn’t find their way into earlier coverage, with comments added: Transparent LED – those mesh screens you can see through – are getting quite good. The content running on this one was vivid. Fine pitch LEDs are being …
Projects: 100 Square Metres OF LED In Lithuanian Cinema Lobby June 19, 2017 by Super User This is the Forum cinema in Kaunas, Lithuania, which has invested in a big way in 3.9mm pitch LED screens and ambient content around the theatre’s lobby. The set-up was designed and installed by the Italian firm MacroPix. The total resolution is 4K plus and there is about 100 square metres of digital on the walls. …
InfoComm 2017 – Sixteen:Nine v. DailyDOOH Video June 19, 2017 by Super User Here’s my chat with Adrian from DailyDOOH, at the NEC stand last week in Orlando. There is a full archive of his chats with various people here …
Data-Driven NYC Taxi Top Displays Tout EWR Being Faster Ride Than JFK June 19, 2017 by Super User United Airlines has a data-driven digital OOH campaign going on New York taxicab toppers that’s designed to dispel the myth that taking a cab from the city to JFK, to fly out of there, is faster than traveling to Newark Airport (which has the airport code EWR). While JFK lays claim to being New York’s …
Some 100 Projectors Used For Immersive Art Experience In Provence June 18, 2017 by Super User This is a pretty fantastic example of projection mapping done indoors – about 100 video projectors generating images over an area of more than 7,000 sq.m., including the floor, at the Carrières de Lumières, an immersive art gallery in Provence, France. The exhibition runs until January 2018, celebrating the art of Bosch, Brueghel and Arcimboldo. The exhibit …
InfoComm 2017: It’s a Wrap – Record Attendance, Up 13.5% From 2016 June 17, 2017 by Super User My aching feet and back have returned from Orlando, and I am starting to thaw out from the high-performing air conditioning units at the convention center. You know things are weird when you’re doing conference sessions in hot, muggy Orlando and women are putting on sweaters. If you were there and found your way to …
China’s Hisense Starts Selling Digital Signage Displays In U.S. June 16, 2017 by Super User Chinese display manufacturers make and market container ship-loads of TVs for the North American consumer market, but they haven’t really shown up in the commercial display market and digital signage. Until now … Hisense is pretty well known for budget TVs but at InfoComm this week the Chinese company is in the Almo booth showing …
Infocomm 2017: Day Two Impressions – Where Are The Gimmicks? June 16, 2017 by Super User My time on the floor was pretty finite on Day 2, but here some quick impressions … Panasonic now has a projection mapping software tool aimed at the sports market, going after Christie and its Mystique software, which makes projection mapping possible on the competition surfaces of, for example, an NBA or NHL arena. …
InfoComm 2017: Day One Impressions June 15, 2017 by Super User It was readily apparent to just about anyone that the big InfoComm pro AV trade show down in Orlando this week would include a lot of exhibit hall real estate filled up by LED display manufacturers. But I’ve never seen as many of them as I saw here – not even at the version of …
