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16:9: Poland’s Screen Network Using Deep Fakes of Masterpiece Paintings to Showcase Their OOH Screens

The Polish digital OOH media company Screen Network have developed a fun campaign that draws attention to their screens by using “deep fake” technology to manipulate famous paintings. The campign uses artificial intelligence and deep learning to create life-like but entirely artificial animations of famous paintings from the likes of Van Gogh, Vermeer and Da Vinci. […]

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Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 9:00 AM

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16:9: Brilliant Example of Digital Merged With Mechanical for Engaging Interactive Work

This is brilliant stuff … famous works of art digitized and playfully integrated with old-school mechanical devices to make them interactive. The exhibit is called Mechanical Masterpieces – a collection of paintings reimagined by artist Neil Mendoza for the 21st century. […]

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Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 10:00 AM

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16:9: Real Estate Developer Uses Anamorphic Illusions on Indoor Corporate LED Video Wall

New anamorphic 3D visuals on big LED boards located in public plazas in Asia seem to be popping up more and more on feeds like Linkedin. Like this one with a Star Trek craft flying out of a building corner. Here’s a very different take – a corporate office in Vancouver, BC that is using anamorphic visuals (viewed from a certain angle, 2D graphics look three-dimensional) for business messaging. […]

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Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 9:00 AM

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16:9: Feeding The Content Beast With “Machine-Generated Creative”

Feeding the content beast – steadily dealing with the insatiable appetite of a digital signage network – has been an issue for as long as the industry has been around, and one that’s still not really solved. […]

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Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 12:38 PM

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16:9: Another Big Robotic Video Wall Surfaces, But This One’s Safe Inside, And Done With Projection

Here’s another example of one of those robotic, kinetic, three-dimensional walls that has cubes that push out and slide back in based on programmed sequences. It is is the same motion technology as what was used for that ill-fated Coca-Cola spectacular LED display in Times Square, but the biggest difference with this one is that it is inside. […]

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Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:56 AM

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16:9: Free Digital Signage Content For Women’s History Month

The CMS firm Rise Vision has kindly made a set of nine high-rez jpegs available that celebrate Women’s History Month, which is on right now. They are available with no strings to other networks, regardless of whether the screens run or not on Rise software. […]

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Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 12:08 AM

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Rise Vision Sales Deals Get More Cowbell

This is fun. A lot of selling organizations have some sort of a symbolic gesture – like ringing a bell – when a deal gets closed and into the system. […]

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Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 8:04 AM

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NYC Financial Services Offices Add Experiential Digital To Workplace Atmosphere

This is the lobby and an upstairs lounge that have been digitally re-imagined by ESI Design for a financial services company in its New York City offices. ESI doesn’t say who, which means it can’t – as is often the case with big-name accounts. […]

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Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 1:29 PM

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Mvix Launches Digital Directories As A Service Solution For Building Operators

The DC-area digital signage software and solutions provider Mvix has launched a hyper-targeted turnkey solution intended to make it dead-simple to budget, spec and use a digital building directory. Dubbed Digital Directory as a Service (or DDaaS), end-users get a commercial-grade display, a digital signage media player, mounting hardware and lifetime access to the cloud-based SMS. […]

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Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 8:31 AM

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16:9: Denys Lavigne Surfaces; Opening An Immersive Experience Venue In Montreal Tomorrow

Denys Lavigne built up one of the most respected and awarded creative shops in digital signage, but Arsenal Media unfortunately petered out as a company in the wake of its 2014 acquisition by Christie. Denys eventually left, and I suspect a lot of people in digital signage have been wondering what he’s been up to. […]

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Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 12:52 PM

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How To Make Your Digital Communications More Effective Using Dynamic Data

GUEST POST: Jørn Olsen, ProntoTV Jørn Olsen Making something more effective means that there is a problem/issue that needs to be solved. When you have a clear purpose, it is possible to start exploring the world of possibilities with dynamic data. […]

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Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 10:58 AM

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16:9: Universal Symbols Suggested For Screen-based Health, Safety And Weather Alerts

An industry consortium called the NextGen Video Information Systems Alliance (NVISA) has put out what it calls a recommended practice document on how to best display emergency alerts based on easily-discernable graphical elements. […]

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Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 10:47 AM

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16:9: Giant Bull Jumps Free In Anamorphic 3D Spot Run On Kuala Lumpur LED Board

Here’s a couple of big wraparound corner DV LED boards in urban settings that are using anamorphic 3D visual effects to draw the eyes of onlookers. The first is in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on the outside corner of a shopping mall. I’m going to assume this is a JCDecaux-owned or controlled board, because a Decaux contact me me know about it! […]

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Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 8:00 AM

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16:9: How (Not) To Communicate Effectively: Podcast Tips On Digital Signage/DOOH Industry Press And PR

People who do marketing and public relations in this and related tech sectors might benefit from listening to this interview I did recently with Visix, from its Digital Signage, Done Right podcast. For a change, I was the one fielding questions, and I said what I’d like to talk about. Visix’s Derek Dewitt called the session How (Not) To Communicate Effectively. […]

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Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 8:18 AM

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16:9: Microgigantic Acquired By Another Creative Shop, Miami-based Mod Op

The Minneapolis digital creative and solutions studio Microgigantic has been acquired by another agency, Miami-based Mod Op. Mod Op has been growing, in part, through acquisitions and this is the third such deal in two years for the company, which has offices across the U.S. and an office in Latin America. […]

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Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 10:57 AM

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