Soaring Stratosphere Tower In Vegas Becomes 1,100-Foot Temporary Billboard March 26, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Sphere consumes almost all the marketing buzz oxygen when it comes to doing monumental-scale media in Las Vegas, but a projection-mapping job during last fall’s F1 race week shows there are other giant canvases available. The soaring concrete tower of the Stratosphere resort, just past the north end of the Strip, was laser-mapped and …
Samsung Loses Top Display Exec To Heart Attack March 26, 2025 by Dave Haynes Unfortunate news out of South Korea – the man running the Device Experience division of Samsung had a heart attack on the weekend and passed away Tuesday. As reported by German language content partner invidis, Samsung Co-CEO Han Jong-hee died suddenly at the age of 63. Han Jong-hee reportedly worked for Samsung since 1988, and …
Western Union Using Vistar’s DOOH Tech Stack To Drive 2,200+ Screen Retail Media Network March 25, 2025 by Dave Haynes I’m skeptical about the fortunes of many retail media networks, but a new involving locations where Western Union services are available could have legs – since a lot of the screens were already in place and the money transfer services offered by Western Union pretty nicely define the audience and the advertisers who might want …
Zynchro First Digital Signage Platform To Integrate With Sony Semiconductor’s AITRIOS Computer Vision Suite March 25, 2025 by Dave Haynes Sony’s Semiconductor Solutions business unit has its first digital signage-focused integration partner for what’s called the AITRIOS, its technology suite for AI-driven computer vision solutions. Dallas-based Zynchro.TV – a small company I hear about now and then but have never bumped into – has worked AITRIOS into its retail solution. As with other computer vision …
Chinese University Researchers Develop LEDs So Small 127K Can Be Packed In Per Inch Of A Display March 25, 2025 by Dave Haynes It is not all that long ago that display industry people were debating with solutions providers the merits of 4K vs full HD, and the dubious value of next-gen,pixel-rich 8K displays, so it’s almost funny now to read about R&D efforts to reduce LED light chips down to nano sizes. Like displays that have 127,000 pixels …
Jacob Horwitz Explains The Thinking Behind Illuminology – A Boutique AV Distribution Company Focused Just On Digital Signage March 25, 2025 by Dave Haynes All kinds of people in this industry are very aware that while there is lot of dodgy stuff, there is also lots of well made display technology available from Chinese manufacturers who have zero brand recognition outside of that country. Buy potential buyers don’t tend to have the time or resources to make the big …
Automaker Renault Uses LED-First Future Stores For Pop-Up London Showroom For EV March 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes I’m not through London that often, so it’s not clear to me if the hyper-ambitious, LED-first Future Stores pop-up experiential retail set-up on Oxford Street is steadily or only periodically booked. The Future Stores website suggests the Renault event on March 22-30 in the flashy high street store is the first since a Nordic fashion …
Video: Barcelona Hospital Uses Data Visualization On Video Wall To Show Real-Time Pulse Of Facility Operations March 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes Data visualization on big video walls can sometimes be a bit of a miss because the only people who are really going to understand the shape-shifting and swirling visuals are the people who designed the experience and the people who commissioned it, but here’s a case where context makes it work. It’s a video wall …
With NFT Digital Art Buzz Now Just A Faint Hum, LG Shutting Down Its Display-Focused Art Lab March 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes Cast your mind all the way back to 2022, and try to recall whether you thought the money and company resources being put in digital art packaged up as crypto-sold NFTs hit you as super-cool and the future, or perhaps more baffling than anything, or clearly stupid. I was very firmly in the “I don’t …
Big Pro AV Distributor Exertis Almo Launches Own Digital Signage CMS Platform Aimed At Integrator Customers March 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes Well this is interesting – we’ve seen display and media player hardware manufacturers through the years come out with software that competes with pure-play digital signage content management systems, but I don’t THINK I have come across a pro AV distributor getting into the game. And that’s what Exertis Almo has done. The value-added Pro …
