Volanti, BrightSign Pair Up On Snappy 4K Interactive Displays November 17, 2016 by Super User The specialty display firm Volanti Displays, a spinoff from Digital View, has developed a set of 4K touchscreen panels that are designed to work and easily mount with one of BrightSign’s higher-powered media players. BrightSign’s new Series 3 XT players have been set up to work with Volanti’s 55″, 65″, 84″ and 98″ 4K panels. The …
Seenspire Debuts Social Media Wall Subscription Service November 17, 2016 by Super User The Belgian creative and content shop Seenspire has added social media visualization toolset subscription to its services, called Social Media Wall. The company is hardly the first to offer a means to get Tweets and Instagram messages up on screens, but what’s always been a little different about these guys is their design chops. The …
Video: Projection-Mapped Horrors At Toronto’s Casa Loma November 17, 2016 by Super User Here’s a video of that projection mapping job done on Toronto’s historic Casa Loma, a castle-like private home turned attraction and event center. It was mapped for a Halloween event run over several weeks. The team: Art Direction / Animation – Peter Lacalamita Sound Design – Adam Smith Technology / Project Management – Diego …
Nike Says It’s Transforming Sports Retail With New SOHO Store November 16, 2016 by Super User Nike just opened a new store in New York City’s Soho neighborhood that really pushes the idea of experiential retail – using massive digital visuals and tapping into sensors for real-time feedback. Nike Soho is a five-storey, multi-sport, 55,000-square-foot store at 529 Broadway at Spring Street. I THINK I tried to go in to it last …
Video: Four Winds Uses Own Platform To Track, Drive Sales November 16, 2016 by Super User I’m not a big fan of the phrase – “Eat your own dog food” – because it kinda turns me off dinner. But … it’s an apt way of describing how organizations actually use the products or services they sell. This is a video I stumbled on from Denver’s Four Winds Interactive – posted a few …
55K Digital OOH Venues Now Under ContextMedia’s Control Via AccentHealth Cash Buy November 16, 2016 by Super User ContextMedia has acquired AccentHealth in a deal that makes theChicago-based firm by a big margin the largest player in health care digital OOH ad networks, with 55,000 sites. It was an all-cash deal – no numbers disclosed. For many, many years, AccentHealth was the biggest player in ad networks in places like clinics and hospitals, running content and …
One DSE Mixer Sponsor Slot Available November 16, 2016 by Super User UPDATE: ALL SPONSORS SLOTS NOW SOLD. THANKS! LOOK FOR EVENT DETAILS IN THE NEW YEAR. Speaking of mixers, it is 132 days until the annual DSE opening night mixer, and yeah, I’m already planning. As in the past, it will be early Tuesday evening, and almost certainly at the same venue (it’s reserved). Seven of …
DSE Firms Up Huddle Mixer For Toronto, Dec. 6th November 16, 2016 by Super User Here’s more information on that DSE Huddle aka mixer set for Dec. 6th in Toronto. The event will run from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the Rocker Room of the Hard Rock Café, which overlooks Yonge Dundas Square, a more diminutive version of Times Square. Huddles are informal local get-togethers put on by the Digital Signage Expo …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Michael Schneider, ESI Design November 16, 2016 by Super User I had a chance last week to tour the New York studio and offices for ESI Design, which has done some amazing experiential digital work in public spaces, as well as museums and in retail settings. Michael Schneider is a senior experience designer and creative technologist at the company, and we spent time talking about the …
What Digital Signage Could Learn From Lyft’s New Beacons And Dashboard Signs November 15, 2016 by Super User I was reading a piece this morning about how the ride-hailing service Lyft, Uber’s main rival in the US and Canada, was going to start using a mash-up of beacons, lights and apps to help passengers better connect with their drivers. This particularly intrigued me because I had a hell of time in New York recently …
