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Digital Curtain, Lit By Projection, Engages, Entertains Guests At Japanese Music College

This is live events AV more than digital signage, but shows what’s possible with projection on a grand scale, and great creative. It is the digital curtain of the new theater, open in August, at the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music (SGCM) in Japan, in the general orbit of Tokyo. The school decided to use a “digital curtain” instead of installing a traditional Japanese tab curtain. […]

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Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 12:07 PM

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16:9: Google AI Researchers Demo System That Auto-Generates Video Spots From Web Pages

Researchers at Google have started showing off demos of an AI system that mines and converts a web page into a short video, known as URL2Video. The system uses AI to extract the visuals and design styles – including fonts, colours, and layouts – and generate a decent-looking, albeit simplistic, video spot from it. […]

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Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 10:05 AM

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Mvix Launches All-You-Can-Eat Subscription Creative Service For Digital Signage Networks

DC-based software and solutions shop Mvix has launched a flat rate, all-you-can-use custom content production service for digital signage networks. The Content Refresh Service is an ongoing subscription that delivers unlimited custom content designs for different digital signage networks. […]

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Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 8:58 AM

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16:9: Norwegian Toy Store Drives Experience With 24M LED Ceiling

This is a very impressive, nicely executed LED ceiling installed above the Kozmos toy store at  Sandvika Storsenter, a mall in the general orbit of Oslo, Norway. The ceiling is 24 meters long and 2.5 meters wide, and runs through a set of visuals designed to make little eyes pop and drive the overall customer experience in the store. […]

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Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 6:22 AM

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16:9: Tourist Stop In Zurich Uses 19-Wide LCD Video Wall To Promote Destinations

Big LCD-based video walls are growing less common as direct view LED takes over, but there are still some nice jobs out there – like this one at the Zurich Tourist Information Centre in Switzerland. The centre is located on the ground floor of the main concourse of Zurich Main station, and is there to provide useful local and regional information to residents and visitors. […]

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Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 3:19 PM

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16:9: PORTL Closes $3M Raise, First COO; Reports 100 Hologram-ish Units Sold

The LA startup that uses a highly optimized transparent LCD displays and enclosures to create life-sized, hologram-ish visual effects has completed a new $3 million fundraising round that will be used, in part, to devlop a small desktop version for content creators. […]

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Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 8:15 AM

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Cupid Bursts From Painting, Flutters Around Airport, In Cool Projection Job

Hat Tip to Bob Raikes, who flagged this via his Display Daily “What Bob Saw …” newsletter. This is a terrific projection mapping piece done at the international airport in Brussels. A cupid animates and busts out from the painting he’s in, and flutters around the famous painting-filled wall in an airport common area. […]

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Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 12:52 PM

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Entries For 2021 Global Digital Signage Awards Up 15% … Despite 2020

  Overall entries are up 15% for the global Digital Signage Awards 2021, which has now closed submissions.   Entries from North America are up just over 20%. […]

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Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 9:11 AM

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Stradivarius Uses Lighting Animations To Drive Brand At Store On French Riviera

More and more case studies and references are starting to pop up that feature direct view LED digital facades in flagship stores, but here’s an example of an image-conscious brand going in a different direction – using animated lighting. This is the Stradivarius store in Cagner Sur Mer, on the French Riviera. […]

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Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 9:15 AM

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Another Anamorphic LED Public Art Board Surfaces, This One In China

This is a big wrap-around DV LED display on the corner of an urban shopping plaza in Chengdu, China, using 3D animation techniques to create the illusion that a Star Trek ship is emerging from the building. The set-up is VERY reminiscent of a board in Seoul that also also shows public art. You will notice that the creative, while amazing, is an anamorphic illusion that has a viewing sweet spot. […]

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Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 8:37 AM

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Reminder – Global Digital Signage Awards Submissions Close Today

A final reminder that today is the end of September – yay, 2020 is gone in three more months!!! – and that means it is the last day for entry submissions to the global Digital Signage Awards, which 16:9 helps sponsor and guide. The UK team that puts together the awards has had to pivot, like everyone else, in the last six months. […]

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Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 8:10 AM

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16:9: New Hollywood-Themed Dubai Lux Hotel Fills Check-In Area With Big LED Visuals

The Cosmopolitan in Vegas now has a worthy competitor to top the list of the most digitally-driven lobbies in a high-end hotel. This is the lobby of the recently completed and opened Damac Paramount Hotel in Dubai, which is next to the main roadway and mass transport line that bisects the city, and in the general vicinity of the Dubai Mall and Burj Khalifa. […]

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Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:08 AM

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Watch A Giant Polar Bear Walk Over Crowd On Chinese Attraction’s LED Canopy

This is a fairly amazing LED canopy ceiling in what I think is a theme park in Jinhua, China, a large city roughly south of Shanghai. Details are scant, as is often the case for projects only written about in local languages, but I think this is the Shanghai Bund theme park, which is a bit like Universal Studios in Los Angeles. […]

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Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 8:11 AM

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16:9: Sort Through Craft Beer Options With This Projected, Interactive Bar Top

Using projection and cameras to make an otherwise mundane surface interactive is not new, but technology advances mean the experiences are steadily getting better and the ideas more interesting and fun. This is a concept from Argo Design, a creative technology agency that is based in Austin, TC but also has offices in New York and Amsterdam. […]

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Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 12:10 AM

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16:9: Beauty Brand Uses Digital Facade At Store To Drive Brand, Traffic And Sales

This is a really nice multi-screen project for a beauty brand’s store in Andorra, and a great example for marketers in this industry on what to do when showcasing company work. The project page is rich in detail and visuals showing what was done, how and why. Too often, I get pitches or news releases that blabber on and on about who did it, and why everyone is excited/delighted/thrilled. […]

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Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 8:55 AM

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