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16:9: Lava Flows, Fluid Mechanics And The Deep Science Behind Video Wall Waterfalls

If you’ve been to the Salesforce headquarters in San Francisco, or certain resort casinos, you will have seen and been blown away by giant virtual waterfalls that appear on LED walls and wash down, over and around things like entryways. It’s kind of amazing, and way beyond much of what you see on big digital canvases – like big 4K stock videos or graphics. […]

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Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 2:07 AM

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16:9: User Data Drives Spotify DOOH Campaign On Listener Interests And Habits

This is an interesting, data-driven campaign put together by the UK’s Grand Visual for the streaming music service Spotify – using digital boards to show the much-varied musical tastes and listening habits of subscribers. […]

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Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 10:56 AM

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16:9: Projection Mapping Finds New Application On Event Dining Tables

Projection mapping from above on to dining tables is a concept that’s been kicking around for a few years, as a novel twist for a restaurant. But it is not exactly something one sees all over. A new company called WeMapping is hoping to make that concept much more widespread – and is wisely, I think, focused on the events sector. […]

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Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 9:44 AM

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Workplace Collaboration Firm Extends Platform To Digital Signage With ScreenCloud Tie-In

Austin, TX-based Lifesize, which does video collaboration and meeting productivity solutions, platform, has announced an integration with UK-based ScreenCloud that extends digital signage content to connected screens in meeting rooms and around the office. The company primarily markets cameras, microphones and conferencing phones, as well as a management platform. […]

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Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 9:17 AM

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LA Office Tower Video Walls Light Up To Support Rams’ Super Bowl Appearance

The LA-based design studio StandardVision collaborated with the LA Rams NFL team to develop content celebrating the team’s season and its appearance in Sunday’s Super Bowl game, against  the New England Patriots. […]

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Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 1:28 PM

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16:9: Aitrak Says Its AI-Driven Eye Tracking Platform Gives Creatives Superpowers

It doesn’t matter how slick your software is, or how beautiful and robust a display may be, if the content on a digital sign doesn’t attract attention and hold it, at least for a bit. So tools that help track and analyze how people view advertising, packaging and other marketing messages can be incredibly valuable. But they can also be clunky, expensive and slow. […]

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Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:15 AM

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16:9: Irony: Coke’s Times Square LED Board Shape-Shifting Again, But Done In Creative

Here is some serious irony for you … A NYC reader who has a deep background in out of home advertising periodically sends me images and videos of that ill-fated Coca-Cola display in Times Square – the one that used incredibly-complex robotics to deliver visual effects that could have just been done in the creative. […]

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Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 10:21 AM

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Watch Video Of LG’s Insane 260-Screen OLED Demo At CES

Good … freaking … Lord!!! Here’s a video of the absolutely massive curving OLED video wall that was the unmissable eye candy for LG at its booth earlier this month at CES in Vegas. I have not been briefed on what LG will do at ISE – which is also a monster trade show. […]

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Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 3:50 PM

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16:9: Santiago’s Subway Rolls With Smart Stations, Data-Driven Screens

This is an information-rich digital sign on Chile’s Santiago Metro. It runs ad messaging and educational messages, but what I like is the amount of detail in the train status messaging. The city’s transit system is using DENEVA, the transit-focused digital signage system developed by Spain’s ICON Multimedia. […]

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Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 8:57 AM

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16:9: Interactive Cube Promotes Netflix’s Cooking Show To JFK Airport Travelers

This a pop-up marketing campaign at Terminal 4 of New York’s JFK Airport – an interactive food dispenser used to promote the Netflix show Final Table. […]

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Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 10:43 AM

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16:9: Mvix Puts 150 Business Data Sources And Widgets In New Portal

DC-area CMS software firm Mvix has announced a data integrations portal with more than 150 business data sources and integrations – enabling end-users to automate the presentation of content from sources as diverse as HubSpot and court dockets. […]

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Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 9:04 AM

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16:9: Chinese Beauty Brand Nu Skin Fills Shenzhen Flagship With Digital Screens

This is a very ambitious, digitally-rich flagship store for Chinese health and beauty brand Nu Skin, opened recently in Shenzhen. Toronto-based Shikatani Lacroix Design (SLD) worked with consulting firm MetaThink to build a store intended as an experience center that reflected the company’s story and brand culture, and showcased products. […]

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Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 8:44 AM

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16:9: New Orleans Car Dealer Uses Digital Billboards To Troll NFL After Missed Call

Hat Tip to Datacall’s Tim Vance for flagging this … A New Orleans man who owns multiple car dealerships around that city has booked LED billboards around the Atlanta area to troll the National Football League ahead of the Super Bowl there, in the wake of an awful missed call that very, very likely kept the New Orleans Saints out of the big game. […]

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Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 8:20 AM

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16:9: Digital Signs Of The Times: Shutdown Time Counters And Birdbox Challenge Warnings

The digital signage CMS software company Rise Vision produces a lot of free, ready-to-use templates for its big base of 9,000-plus customers, and while most of them are things like welcome messages, promotions, menus and calendars, the company’s creatives have also produced things that are more public service-oriented, like anti-bullying messages. […]

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Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 8:59 AM

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16:9: How Chive Media Keeps Butts On Barstools, And Its Plans To Expand Its Screen Network Well Beyond Bars

The big selling point for Chive TV is that the streaming channel’s five-hour mix of curated social media content keeps butts in barstools. The Austin, Texas-based company has some 4,000 bar and restaurant venues running content on one or many of their TVs, and about 500 more come on monthly – with a lot of that growth through word of mouth. […]

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Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 11:11 PM

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