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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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10 Soaring LED Sculptures Greet Passengers Arriving At Dubai’s Int’l Airport

This is a very impressive temporary LED installation in the International Arrivals Hall of Dubai’s vast airport – the busiest on the planet. There are 10 vertical LED sculptures  wrapped around support columns that line a main walkway. Instead of those flexible, rounded LED modules, or thin strips, the install uses a set of 10m-tall individual columns, which reduced the cost. […]

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Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 7:23 AM

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16:9: A Sanitizer Station That’s Also A Messaging Screen, Fever Sensor, People Counter, And …

The Dubai-based digital signage solutions provider Connectiv have taken one of those hybrid sanitizer dispenser/information screens from China and added a lot more capability. Connectiv juiced up what is otherwise becoming a commodity item by adding presence detection, fever screening and people counting for building capacity guidelines. […]

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Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 8:03 AM

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16:9: Finally, A Rolling, Robotic Digital Poster On Wheels!

In just about every speaking gig I do, I work in the importance of strategy, and encourage both sellers and buyers to ask a big, simple question: Why? I don’t have a solid answer to why for this loopy thing: a four-screen robotic ad machine that in theory would slowly roll along the concourses of shopping malls, airports and convention centers. […]

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Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 12:10 AM

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16:9: Dubai’s Burj Khalifa Adds Cracking Virtual Glass Floor, Driven By Sensors

I always have mixed feelings around visual tricks designed to scare the living sh*t out of some unwitting visitors. It’s one thing if you are in a theme park or one of those Halloween pop-up places that are billed as scary. But introducing an abrupt scare into something that is, by nature, intimidating is one of those ‘Not sure about that …’ things. […]

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Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 8:22 AM

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16:9: World’s Tallest Building Hosts Massive Car Rally Ad, For Dakar Rally

The Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai has long been used as a visual surface for lasers, fireworks and most recently, programmable LED lighting. The 828 meter building – the world’s tallest building – has 163 floors and is clad from top to bottom in LED lighting that’s used for scheduled shows and for booked media campaigns like this one, for the famed Dakar motor rally. […]

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Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 8:19 AM

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16:9: That Insane ETISALAT Booth At GITEX Also Had Shape-Shifting LED Walls

One of the buzziest impressions from the recent GITEX trade show in Dubai – a very large, by the looks of it moderately crazy  variation on CES – was the way, way, way over-the-top ETISALAT booth – with the telecoms company having LED everywhere, and a flying car (only kinda sorta – it appeared to be a very expensive balloon). […]

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Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 4:02 PM

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16:9: Right-Angle Fine Pitch LED Wall Centerpiece Of Arab National Bank Branch In Riyadh

This is a major branch of Arab National Bank in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with the digital components just completed and switched on by Dubai-based digital signage solutions firm 2point0 Concepts. The branch on Tahlia Street, which is Riyadh’s main shopping strip, has a big mix of direct view LED and interactive LCD screens. […]

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Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:47 AM

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Chopper Hauls 300-Ft Projection-Mapped Screen Across Dubai Skyline

This is the world’s largest aerial projection screen, executed (unsurprisingly) in or more accurately over Dubai recently. It involves a 300-foot fabric aerial screen towed by a Bell 212 Helicopter, while a second Bell 212 projected the video onto the screen, using projection mapping. […]

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Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 7:57 AM

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16:9: LG Plants OLED Palm Tree At Dubai’s GITEX Trade Show

LG is using flexible OLED displays – made into a digital palm tree – as the centerpiece of its stand at the annual GITEX consumer electronics trade show and conference this week in Dubai. The OLEDs are open frame (no rigid borders) so they can flex concave or convex. The company has also been heavily showing at different shows an OLED embedded in a suspended sheet of glass. […]

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Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 8:41 AM

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16:9 Projects Podcast: Alex Simionescu Of Float4 On The Amazing Dubai City Walk

For this episode,  Projects is looking at Dubai’s City Walk, a new outdoor retail shopping concept that FLOAT4, based in Montreal and New York, has brought to life. City Walk incorporates over 100 million pixels of digital content spread across 30 areas, making it one of the largest retail digital deployments in the world. […]

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Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 12:05 AM

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80 Million Experiential Pixels Now Lit Up At Dubai Outdoor Retail Complex

The Society For Experiential Graphic Design has its annual xLab conference on even as I type this, but I’m back at HQ and missing the event (but not missing flying out of NYC on a Friday evening … ugh). […]

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Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 2:38 PM

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16:9: Saudi British Bank Adds 60+ Screens In Riyadh Banking Center

The Saudi British Bank in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has added a series of displays around its premiere banking center on Tahlia, the city’s high street. There are four video walls around the three-level branch, including a 4 by 3 curved wall. There are also tablets ands regular displays around the branch, intended to create a memorable customer journey, and touchscreen pods along the ATM area. […]

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Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 1:03 PM

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16:9: 80 Million Pixels Light Up At Dubai’s New City Walk Market

This looks kind of amazing – 12 football fields worth of digital visuals on LED and projection in the new Meraas City Walk market in Dubai. Overall, the Meraas project involves more than 30 LED installations in 21 different formats and nearly 30 high-res projectors totalling over 80 million pixels. It’s easily one of the most ambitious digital installs done to date, globally. […]

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Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 9:09 AM

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16:9: Apple Goes Big With LED Video Wall At Next-Generation Store In Memphis

Memphis Store – Photo from Apple Insider Memphis is likely not the first locale many people would peg for an iconic brand to open its first next-generation store in its home country. But that’s where Apple has opened a new store design concept that has a massive fine pixel pitch LED video wall as its signature feature. […]

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Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 2:40 PM

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