Medical School Working With Magnetic 3D On Glasses-Free 3D Screens For Possible Training, Surgical Applications May 13, 2025 by Dave Haynes I tend to think of glasses-free autostereoscopic displays as technology looking somewhat endlessly for a use-case, so it’s interesting to learn that Magnetic 3D has an “expanded agreement” with a medical school to explore using the tech for teaching and even in operating rooms. The tie-up with Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) is …
DSS Europe Makes Final Registration Push For Next Week’s Event; Adds More Detail May 13, 2025 by Dave Haynes The organizers of next week’s Digital Signage Summit (DSS) Europe in Munich are doing a last push on registrations, with added detail on what attendees can expect if they register for the annual conference and micro trade show. It is a three day event for a first time, and as a result, has the largest …
Sony Drops 8K Display Manufacturing, At Least For Now, Waiting For Market Demand To Emerge May 13, 2025 by Dave Haynes I missed this when it slipped out, and just came across a post about Sony quietly dropping its 8K Bravia TV line-up, effectively stopping any marketing of 8K. That pretty much leaves Samsung as the only major display manufacturer touting the super high resolution product. LG sells them but hasn’t launched a new one in …
Pro-AV Business Showing Positive Indicators Despite Tariffs-Driven Uncertainties: AVIXA May 12, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Pro-AV business index generated month to month by trade association AVIXA’s market intelligence people suggests despite all the nutty uncertainty surrounding business conditions in the United States, the numbers for the industry actually look OK, at least so far. The May report, looking at April numbers and Q1, suggest that while tariff uncertainty continues …
UK Bridge’s Supports Lit Up, Projection-Mapped, To Mark VE Day May 9, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is great – a projection-mapping job last night marking the 80th anniversary of the end of hostilities in Europe, back in 1945. The UK specialist firm Motion Mapping used two of the concrete supports of the Orwell Bridge in Suffolk, northeast of London, as the canvas for projection. This was done from a restaurant …
FAFO: Fired Disney World Manager Gets Three Years Jail For Monkeying With Park Menu Boards May 9, 2025 by Dave Haynes In a clear example of F*** Around and Find Out, a former Walt Disney World employee who responded to his firing by using his unrevoked system access to monkey with and disable the park’s digital menus has been handed a three-year prison sentence and ordered to pay almost $700,000 USD in restitution. While that, at …
Nanolumens, AUO Display Plus Form Partnership Focused On MicroLED May 9, 2025 by Dave Haynes Atlanta-based LED display vendor Nanolumens clearly sees a future for microLED as a large format display surface, having announced what’s termed as a strategic partnership with Taiwanese display manufacturing giant AUO, which has put much or most of the its expansion efforts from LCD to LED displays into the still R&D-ish micro side of the …
Tabletop Tent Cards Go Digital With Viewneo’s Soon-To-Launch Dinio E-Paper Solution May 8, 2025 by Dave Haynes The German digital signage solutions firm viewneo has started previewing an interesting product that is a contemporary spin on the idea of using small form factor displays in in dining establishments as dynamic table tent cards – but with color e-paper instead of energy-hungry LCDs. CEO Manfred Ludtke tells me members of his Dusseldorf-based team …
Clear Channel Sells Brazilian OOH/DOOH Business To Eletromidia, As It Continues Narrrowing Focus To U.S. Market May 8, 2025 by Dave Haynes The US-based outdoor media company Clear Channel is continuing its pullback from just about any market other than America – with the latest news that it is selling its Brazilian business to Eletromidia, the largest DOOH company in that country, for just $14 million. Clear Channel businesses in Mexico, Peru, and Chile were already acquired by …
OAAA Announces Annual Awards For Top OOH/DOOH Media Work May 8, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) has been handing out awards for excellence in billboards, posters and other formats LONG before digital came along, and this week at its annual conference the trade association revealed the winners of the 83rd Annual OBIE Awards. The Platinum OBIE Award, the top honor, went to Coca-Cola …
