MoMu Wall in Mode museum Antwerpen.

MoMu Outdoor multi touch wall to explore the inside collection plus archive.
5 m x 1,5 m interactive installation.

These days museums have large parts of their collection locked away in huge archives.

The Fashion Museum of Antwerp (MoMu) tranforms this problem in of their strengths by digitally unlocking their hidden treasures. The interactive wall was a concept initiated by Studio Dos Santos. Under his supervision Momu assigned Lab101 to set up a team to work on the creative and technical challenges. Holocube build the installation in a way that even when the museum is closed the people can touch outdoors through the inside collection. ( + 1000 textiles)

The setup runs from a single computer rendering 8xHD at a resolution of7680x2160 at 60fps spanning a physical area of 10m2. All heavy image rendering and video processing is done by a node.js CMS in combination with phantom.js running on a Linux server.

The whole setup supports 80 simultaneous touches.

Together with the current exhibition of Belgium number one fashion designer Dries Van Noten , Inspirations, this Momu museum explorer became a big success.

Planar DirectLight LED Video Wall System

The Planar® DirectLight™ LED Video Wall System is a family of seamless, ultra-fine pitch direct view LED video walls that provide a superior visual experience, and 24x7 reliability tailored to your unique indoor environment. Planar DirectLight LED video walls incorporate design principles gained from Planar's decades of successful video wall installations and is ideal for the most demanding control room and digital signage applications, providing a uniform and seamless canvas of nearly any size or shape.

Neptune Duo - You'll Flip Over This.

Technology is all about big ideas, and this one from Simon Tian will probably need its own aircraft hangar. The creator of the Neptune Pine believes that it's time for us to ditch our smartphone, laptop and set-top-box in favor of the Neptune Hub. As we reported, the Neptune Hub is a wrist-worn computer that crams the guts of a smartphone into a chunky plastic bracelet. Instead of using the hardware as a phone, however, users are encouraged to bring along a dumb screen that connects to the Hub. But that's the beginning of Tian's idea, not the end.
You see, the Hub is designed as the single mobile computer you need in your life, replacing the brains of a phone, tablet, laptop and set-top box. Instead, the Neptune Suite is a group of anonymous-looking devices that look like those things, but are actually just secondary displays for the computer on your wrist.



For instance, if you want to make a call and read some emails, you connect the 5-inch Pocket Screen over WiGig to the hub. When you're done, and you want to browse the web, you simply swap put the "phone" down and pick up the 10-inch Tab Screen. Should you need to get some more serious work done, you can team the Neptune Keys (keyboard) with the Tab Screen to create an ersatz laptop. Finally, vegging out in front of Netflix can be achieved by switching over to the Dongle, a HDMI-dongle that slots in the back of your HDTV.
The benefit of all of this is that since all of the other devices don't need their own computing hardware, the whole package is cheaper. In addition, the two screens are, broadly, just batteries with displays attached, which Tian hopes will offer long usage times.

But wait, folks, that's not all, since if you purchase the Neptune Suite, you'll also get a pair of fancy wireless headphones. The whole bundle is being offered on Indiegogo, with the earliest of birds able to snag the whole set for just $599, while Johnny-come-lately customers have to spend $649. It's a bit of a steal, since the final retail price will be around $949, but since that's roughly the price of a flagship smartphone for -- potentially -- five devices it's pretty reasonable. If there is one downside, it's that it won't begin shipping until February 2016.

More info here.

4k Artistic Mosaic Video Wall at DSE 2015.

A 4K recording of Userful Network Video Wall. It can output a 4k source content over a standard Ethernet network to seven zero client devices attached to seven different 1080p screens of varying sizes and arranged at varying angles. Virtually flawless synchronization playing back UHD content at 30fps using just a single Core i7 PC as the server. To learn more visit http://userful.com/4kvideowall/

DSE 2015: Convergent Demonstrates iBeacon Integration.

ADELAIDE festival of Arts.

“ADELAIDE IS STILL THE PREMIER FESTIVAL CITY.”
THE AUSTRALIAN
27.02.2015 -15.03.2015




For more than 50 years Adelaide Festival audiences have delighted in an outstanding mix of inspiring, challenging and entertaining artists and performers. This vital and prestigious celebration of art from around the globe has defined South Australia as the nation’s premier festival state. With internationally acclaimed theatre productions, an eclectic array of world-class musicians, breathtaking dance pieces and striking visual arts displays, Adelaide’s warm March days and starry nights provide the ideal setting for this highly accessible event.



Throughout its history Adelaide Festival of Arts has shared Australia’s best new work along with some of the world’s great companies and international artists including Sylvie Guillem, John Zorn, Marlene Dietrich, Allen Ginsberg, James Thiérrée, Philip Glass, Isabelle Huppert, Schaubühne Berlin, Yehudi Menuhin, Isabella Rossellini, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Nina Simone, Jane Birkin and Malcolm McLaren.

AMOLED Panel Market, to Reach US$ 46 Billion by 2020

2014 was the year preparing a platform to develop the OLED industry in full scale.

 There was a prevalent doubt in the industry until 2014 concerning whether the OLED TV is able to break into the market or not. However, as LG Electronics successfully released the UHD OLED TV, the set manufactures were classified with the companies against LG and incapable of producing the OLED TV. Under this circumstance, the majority of TV set manufacturers including Samsung Electronics exhibited the Quantum dot (QD) BLU LCD TV at CES2015. The night view screen which was the exhibition concept only appeared on the OLED TV was employed on the QD LCD TV chasing the high contrast ratio just like the OLED TV.
In the display for a mobile device, the OLED succeeded in establishing an exclusive market with G Flex2 and Galaxy Note Edge with emphasis on the flexibility feature that LCD cannot even attempt to imitate.
According to the ‘’2015 OLED Display Annual Report’’ published by UBI Research on the 10^th, the total revenue has decreased by 4% compared to the previous year due to the AMOLED panel shipments cut resulting from the low sales of Galaxy S5 in 2014.

Is the OLED industry already in crisis?
Though the OLED industry got wet with rain for a while in 2014, it will begin to solidify its place in 2015. Flexible OLED and TV are the alternatives.
UBI Research methodically analyzed and took a close look at the future of flexible OLED on the ‘’2015 OLED Display Annual Report’’. There are a number of display manufacturers developing products in view of that the rollable display is the final stage of a flexible display. But if the rollable display is to be applied on a mobile device, the cultural components are to go back to the analog age and in terms of technology, it may cause a heating problem as all parts excluding the display are concentrated on the body. For that reason, UBI Research prospected that the rollable product will be used on a large movable screen type display rather than on a mobile device.

Also the ‘’2015 OLED Display Annual Report” of UBI Research forecasts that the AMOLED panel market will grow at a CAGR of 30% reaching US$ 46 billion by 2020. Assuming the OLED panel for TV and tablet PC will take the sales share of 30% respectively in 2020, the report predicted that the key application for the OLED panel market will be a TV and a tablet PC following a smart phone.
The growth of AMOLED panel market is anticipated to accelerated after 2017 given that Chinese manufactures are also likely to invest in full scale between 2016 and 2017 to previse the Korea’s monopoly of AMOLED market.

Projection technique gives movement to static objects.

Bron; www.inavateonthenet.net

Static images can give the impression of realistic movement with a light projection technique developed by Japanese technology and communications company NTT Communication Science Laboratories. Dubbed HenGenTou (which means deformation lamps in Japanese) the illusion-based animation technique can make objects appear to move, deform or flutter and brings to life photos, paintings or written texts. The company is tipping the technology for use in advertising, interior design, art and entertainment.

Its approach builds on conventional projection mapping techniques but preserves the image of the original surface in order to deliver the appearance that a static image is moving.

The company says it can add a variety of dynamic impressions - ranging from natural liquid flows to facial expressions to a printed image or other static materials - by harnessing visual illusions. The effects can also be added to 3D objects, albeit with a restricted viewing angle.

Trylive at OPTI 2015

Kamal presents TryLive, the cloud-based solution to virtually try-on glasses on web, mobile and in-store, coming to you from OPTI 2015, the optical show in Münich. This solution based on our face tracking technology acts as a virtual mirror and enables consumers to choose with confidence.



This video presents the "Ski Themed" virtual eyewear try-on kiosk solution in HD. This kiosk acts as a virtual mirror and can be installed in any optical shop to offer more services to the consumers: larger catalog access and record video feature for short sighted people.

Womans Aid in London.

Womens Aid TV AD, C4, Sunday 6th March 2015 from Ocean Outdoor.
International Women's day
In a world first for digital out of home, Ocean, Women’s Aid and WCRS are collaborating on an interactive campaign which shows how we can all make tangible changes in the fight against domestic violence.