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16:9: Watch The Latest Digital Art Piece Running On NYC Fulton Center’s Digital Signage Network

This is the latest digital art piece running at the busy Fulton Center Transportation Hub in Lower Manhattan. Commissioned by the MTA’s Arts & Design department, Skyyys is a video installation developed by interdisciplinary artist Dave Greber of Philadelphia. The idea behind Skyyys is playfully mimicking the constant stream of visual information that we all see daily. […]

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Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 9:50 AM

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16:9: Printer Federal Heath Wins Digital Signage Rollout Deal With Kwik Trip C-Store Chain

The mainstream printing/visual communications firm Federal Heath has been working its way into the digital signage sector in fits and starts for the last four or five years, but I met a guy at DSE who said his company was organized now for this business and getting some traction. A deal with a substantial US c-store chain would seem to verify that. […]

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Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 9:14 AM

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16:9: Sao Paulo Office Block Lit Up By LED Art Project

This is a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil with a low-rez LED light facade, with content put together by the Istanbul, Turkey HQ’d creative shop Ouchhh. I like what they did, but the explanation/description is one of those art gallery “Ummm-OK-yeah-yeah-I-see” narratives that is a little too out there for my bottom-feeder brain. […]

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Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 8:53 AM

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16:9: Nick Fearnley Talks About How SignStix Makes Smart Displays Really Smart

I am guilty of thinking about SignStix as yet another smallish digital signage CMS company scratching out a living with low-cost subscriptions and equally low-cost Android stick players. Based in Yorkshire, England, SignStix is a lot more than that. The company is indeed small, but doing some stuff that is a little bit mind-blowing. […]

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Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 5:11 AM

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Gable Hires On Director To Head 17-Designer Visual Communications Team

I don’t tend to run much news about new hires at companies, because the reader analytics clearly indicate few of you care. BUT, this one is kind of interesting. Baltimore-based AV design and solutions firm Gable, which has grown increasingly involved in this sector in the last 2-3 years, has hired on a Design Director for Gable’s Solutions Design Group. […]

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Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:55 AM

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16:9: Kia Motors Russia’s Full Dealership Digital Signage Network Consolidates On Scala

All the Kia dealers in Russia have now rolled out a communications program, running off Scala, that reflects the Korean automaker’s  new “Red Cube” brand identity. The new dealerships mix corporate red buildings, big glass windows and a new space identity involving car displays, points of attraction and functional zones. […]

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Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 9:02 AM

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How To Make Your Digital Signage More Effective, With A/B Testing

Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix In order to truly use your organizational digital signage to its fullest potential, you need to have a system of continuous assessment in place – what works, what doesn’t and how can less effective messages be improved to get people to follow your calls-to-action? […]

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Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 8:48 AM

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Why Open Digital Signage Is A Competitive Advantage – Part 2

Guest Post: John Wang, IAdea Corporation In Openness as a Competitive Advantage – Part I, published in March 2018, I shared an example of successfully winning a prominent financial institution client who needed an open platform solution. John Wang In that case, the in-house AV/IT crew wanted the ability to perform customizations for business objectives that were unique to the institution. […]

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Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 4:24 PM

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Ultrahaptics Offers Touch Experiences For Screens, Without Touching The Screens

Way back in the corner of DSE, in the innovation zone, a Bristol, UK company called Ultrahaptics was demonstrating tech that creates the sensation of touch in mid-air, in front of digital screens. […]

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Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 9:22 AM

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16:9: The Tech Behind Those Furiously-Spinning LED Holograph-ish Hypervsn Walls

I’ve been to a few trade shows now where the fast-spinning LED light sticks – marketed as Hypervsn – attract big crowds and have a lot of people whipping out their phone cameras. The technology definitely creates buzz, so I wanted to know more about the technology and the company behind it. […]

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Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 5:52 PM

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Use Retail Digital Signage For Forward-Think Customer Experiences

Headlines screaming about the so-called retail apocalypse would have retailers believe there’s nothing they can do to keep customers from abandoning the physical shopping experience. Owners should tune out the doom and gloom and focus on making visitors happy when they pass by or enter their place of business. […]

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Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 4:14 AM

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16:9: How Tanvas Uses Haptics To Add The Sensation Of Touch To Otherwise Lifeless Displays

Imagine if you could feel what you see on a touchscreen. If, for example, you could unzip a zipper by drawing your finger down a screen and experiencing that familiar sensation. That’s the premise behind a Chicago startup called Tanvas, that is using haptics technology to enable users of interactive screens to have genuine touch added to their experiences when using touch technology. […]

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Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 7:11 AM

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16:9: How Projection Mapping Got Small, Affordable And Easy Via SF Startup Lightform

One of the most interesting companies I saw recently at InfoComm in Las Vegas was Lightform, a San Francisco start-up that is making the once dark art of projection mapping available to just about everyone. It wasn’t that long ago that projection mapping was all about very ambitious, very complicated, very expensive projects that only a handful of companies had the chops to pull off. […]

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Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 7:11 AM

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16:9: Swiss Company Uses Mash-Up Of Web, Mobile And Signage To Target Hard-To-Reach Workers

Via HospitalityNet A Swiss company called Beekeeper is using a cross-platform blend of web, mobile and digital signage to inform and motivate back of house workers in a variety of industries, such as hospitality. The company recently announced a deal to provide its digital workforce platform for operational communications at SIXTY Hotels, a small luxury lodgings chain. […]

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Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:54 AM

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16:9: New, Unnamed Suitor Means RMG Networks May Not Go Private After All

It appears RMG Networks has a new suitor, a couple of months after the signage solutions company’s board chair did a  merger agreement to take the public company private, but left the door open for a third-party entity to make a “superior”  offer before this deal closes. […]

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Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 12:08 PM

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