The Orange County, CA-based AV solutions firm Mad Systems has been granted a U.S. patent for systems and methods that provide location-centric information about registered users based on facial recognition technology. The system, called LookingGlass Concierge, “uses facial recognition to identify and locate people. […]
The French computer vision firm Quividi has released results of a methodical research test in Australian shopping malls that showed using real-time pattern detection to match ad content to viewers had distinctly positive impacts. […]
Digital signage media player manufacturer BrightSign has developed new capability that puts a voice command solution – called BrightVoice – on select devices. The interesting wrinkle is that BrightVoice solution is hosted locally on the BrightSign player, and doesn’t need an internet connection to function. […]
Intel recently opened an awfully nice, screen-filled development center in Petach Tikva, Israel – which is an eastern suburb of Tel Aviv. The 800,000-square-foot, 11-story building brings together 2,000 employees who had been scattered in eight buildings across five campuses. […]
There’s an interesting piece up in the New York Times about how McDonald’s is investing heavily in technology to adopt to a fast-changing consumer and competitive landscape. The story goes into how the 2nd biggest fast food company in the world – Subway is #1 – has acquired AI companies this year and set up its own in-house tech lab. […]
Experiential spaces seems to be an emerging new business, driven by lowered technology costs, easier tools and brilliant creative minds who are pushing the boundaries on digital creative. While in New York this week I had a free hour to run over to Chelsea Market to visit the converted boiler room that is now called Artechouse, a digital/experiential gallery. […]
The always popular – even with me involved – Coffee and Controversy event put on by the Digital Signage Federation is coming up fast. It’s less than two weeks from today in New York. This year’s morning event will be Oct. […]
A Polish media company is touting an interesting use of triggered content from AI-driven audience analytics that boosted foot traffic and social media engagement for a special event at a Warsaw mall. […]
A Shanghai spin-off company called HuskyLens is running a successful Kickstarter campaign for what is described as an easy-to-use AI-driven $30 USD camera that has built-in tech like face pattern and objection detection. […]
Miami-based computer vision company AdMobilize has been granted a US patent for a “method and system for dynamically adjusting displayed content based on analysis of viewer attributes.” That dynamic content is based around the use of anonymous video analytics – the core business of AdMobilize. […]
A new interactive digital artwork at the Barbican in London uses camera sensors and a big digital display to generate unique digital forms of people who visit an exhibit called AI: More Than Human. At the entrance to the exhibition, the visitor is greeted by a screen which acts as a mirror, reflecting a unique synthetic form. […]
Walmart has started testing computer vision and AI in a big way at an “Intelligent Retail Lab” lab on Long Island, outside New York City. The Walmart Neighborhood Market in Levittown, N.Y. has 1,000s of overhead cameras tracking the state and movement in the store aisles, as well as standard and interactive digital signage screens explaining the Lab and infrastructure. […]
AdMobilize – DSE Booth Number 3040 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Over the past few years we have focused on the core technology at our booth (live computer vision demos) to showcase the possibilities. This year we will be adding solution specific demos for DOOH and Retail to describe how AI is being used effectively in those sectors. […]
The footwear brand New Balance did an interesting machine learning-driven digital signage piece on the streets of New York recently, putting up a screen and sensors that scanned approaching pedestrians and flagging those people who weren’t dressing like everyone else. […]
Taiwan’s VIA Technologies has done a significant upgrade on its line of ruggedized Android digital signage players, releasing what it calls the VIA ALTA DS 3 Edge AI system. The $400 MSRP units are run off the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820E Embedded Platform and Android 8.0. Previous versions, while powerful, were several generations back at Android 4.4. […]
