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Video: BMO’s 200 Years Marked On Interactive Timeline Video Wall In Toronto

This is a nice interactive wall Cineplex Digital Media put together for BMO Financial Group (Bank of Montreal) to celebrate that company’s 200th anniversary. The timeline-based wall was installed in the underground walkway system that links much of downtown Toronto – in this case on a stretch below the company’s head office. […]

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Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 8:10 AM

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Elo Introduces Android 7-based Backpack Appliance To Drive Touchscreens

Touchscreen-maker Elo is introducing a hardened Android appliance to drive its range of monitors, for use in applications like interactive digital signage, kiosks and Point Of Sale systems. Called the Elo Backpack, it’s a set-top box-sized device that can be remotely managed using something called EloView. […]

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Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 12:23 PM

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DSE 2018 Booth Previews – Sophatar

Sophatar Inc. – Booth 1954     Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths?  Automated contextual digital signage to increase shopper basket size for retail. What’s your big marketing message to attendees, and what’s it all about?  Dynamic digital signage on any media player, no playlist to maintain, no creative agency to involve. […]

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Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 12:01 PM

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Retail AR App Has Wine Bottles Talking To You

This is a really interesting use of augmented reality in a retail setting – wine bottles that talk to you and relate a story about the brand. In this case, it is for the Aussie wine brand 19 Crimes (hmmm, pretty sure I have a bottle of that aging downstairs). Point app-enabled smartphone screen at the face on the label, and it starts talking. […]

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Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 3:48 PM

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Projects: Interactive At Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

This is a new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., which has a  series of touchscreens that connect visitors to the stories behind the images and objects on display, as well a web-based mobile experience. It’s all about the use of American Indian imagery and iconography as part of the United States’ national identity. […]

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Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 3:12 PM

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16:9 Video: Interactive Restaurant Table Uses Portable Hologram Projector

I spotted this video on Linkedin – a hologram projection thingie touted as being part of the restaurant of the future. […]

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Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 10:29 AM

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16:9: What??? – That Gloriously Stupid Subway Messaging Fixture In Toronto Actually Cost $2 Million

Photo – realities:united I wrote recently about the mind-wobblingly stupid art installation installed but not activated at a new Toronto subway stop. The set-up would allow anyone to walk up to a kiosk and put up a brief eight-character message on a set of suspended lights. Naughty and nasty messages would, of course, ensue. […]

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Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 1:35 PM

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16:9: Intel Shipping Pair Of Low-Cost 3D Depth-Sensing Cameras For Analytics, Interactive

Intel has started shipping a pair of low-cost RealSense D400 Depth Cameras that add 3D depth sensing capability, something that could prove useful for interactive digital signage applications and for video-driven analytics. […]

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Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 8:38 AM

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16:9: Digital Signage In A Post-Digital Display World

Guest Post: Ryan Cahoy, Rise Vision This spring, Steven Spielberg will treat audiences to a story millions of readers already know: Ready Player One. The story takes place in a world where people rise and fall in an entirely VR world. It’s a concept that’s becoming more and more of a reality each year. […]

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Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 3:05 PM

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LCBO Pop-Up Booze Store Uses Digital Touchpoints To Market Wine, Whiskey

When I think of pop-up stores, I think apparel start-ups. But in Toronto, Ontario’s giant booze monopoly is running a pop-up store for the holiday season that includes several digital components. […]

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Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:08 AM

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Big Red One’s Museum Goes Interactive In $8M Renovation

The First Division Museum at Cantigny Park, in Chicago, recently completed a year-long, $8 million renovation that complete reimagining the presentation of the story behind the U.S. Army’s famed division know as the Big Red One. The new version has extensive storytelling installations that integrate interactive media and other historic artifacts through experiential design. […]

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Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 5:26 PM

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3D-Printed Skyscraper Miniatures Drive Slick Interactive Touch-Table

This is a slick interactive application that uses 3D printed miniatures of landmark buildings in Singapore to explain the building technologies behind them, by placing the miniatures on a touchscreen that has built-in optical marker recognition capability. The project is for the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore. […]

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Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 7:56 AM

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16:9: A Magic Interactive Mirror For Gyms

I’ve seen no end of photos and videos of “magic” mirrors for fashion retailing applications, and one or two for hotel rooms, but this is the first suggestion of how an LCD mirror display with a touch overlay could be used in health and fitness. […]

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Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 10:20 AM

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Provision, Coinstar Partner On Rollout Of 3D Holographic Kiosks

LA-based Provision Interactive Technologies has done a partnership that will see its 3D holographic display and point-of-sale coupon system added to some 300 Coinstar money-counting kiosks in the U.S. before the end of this year. […]

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Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 8:41 AM

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Watch How That Giant LED Selfie Head In Columbus, OH Came Together

Here’s a really good explainer video about the giant selfie head that switched on as an interactive art piece a few weeks ago at the newly-renovated Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio. […]

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Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 8:00 AM

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