E-Ink and Sony in Joint Venture.

E Ink® Holdings, "E Ink" (8069.TW), the leading innovator of electronic ink technology, today announced E Ink and Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation, have agreed to establish a joint venture (“JV”) responsible for planning, designing, developing, manufacturing, selling, distributing and licensing products that utilize electronic paper displays, as well as related applications and the integration platform for system partners.

E Ink and Sony have cultivated a strong partnership through a wide array of collaboration products since 2004, with Sony selling Digital Paper adopting E Ink’s electronic paper display technology. The new JV will leverage both E Ink’s development and manufacturing technology for electronic paper displays and Sony’s expertise in product development and marketing. By doing so, it will aim to create new electronic paper display products and systems, and grow the market of ePaper-based solutions.

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The Midnight Special.

Source; www.eness.com

We transformed an old-school bus to take you on a trippy journey to stillness for our latest art installation, The Midnight Special.

From the outside, The Midnight Special has the appearance of a retro Australian school bus, but step inside and you are sucked into a futuristic gravitational vortex of choreographed light and sound. Colour shatters in hypnotising patterns across viewers who lie on the bus floor, soaking up the meditative ambience from the LED light show.

The light vortex calms and speeds up playing visual tricks on the audience, who forget the structures are there between the illusive, floating light formations. The installation structure is an array of addressable LEDs designed by our team - each light was carefully mapped with specific content in collaboration with Hyper Reelist (Jobe Williams), then synchronised to react to a soundtrack composed for this experience by Mark Williams.

The Midnight Special evokes nostalgic feelings mixed with the unseen, unfamiliar and unexperienced. The Midnight Special was last seen at Strawberry Fields Festival – a festival of music, art and love.

CircLED

Create your own video form surface with the unique system design.

CircLED allows you to put together different types of logo, lettering or creative elements as a video display and to record with content of your choice.

You can choose between differently curved modules with different angles as well as a square tile.

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kompas wayfinding Abu Dhabi Mall.

Dimedis presented the compass wayfinding route on a stele used in the Abu Dhabi Mall or in the Neuer Markt shopping mall. Compas wayfinding is an intuitive and intelligent routing system. The interaction with the compass wayfinding route is done via a touch screen. Kompas wayfinding documents anonymises all actions and searches of the users and is thus a permanent survey tool. The core feature is the intuitive LogoCloud:

Immersive Video Wall in Netflix's new LA HQ.

This is pretty amazing – an 80-foot, 13K, fine-pitch LED video wall running custom ambient content in the lobby of the new Netflix building in LA.

Vast video walls in lobbies is not all that uncommon anymore among well-heeled companies and property owners, but the content in many to most of those cases is meant to please and entertain and engage. In the Netflix lobby, the content puts visitors on the sets of some of the online streaming network’s most popular and iconic shows.

Guests walk in and find themselves in the jungle scenes of Narcos or behind bars in the women’s ward of Orange Is The New Black. Rather than doing the predictable by running trailers or clips from the shows, the 1.9mm LED wall shows mostly static scenes with only subtle movements and supporting audio.

It’s pretty fantastic, and something I now want badly to get out to LA to see some time.

The technology set-up is all the work of the NY and LA-based D3, which sells a range of LEDs but also a very high-end server and software that drives these kinds of experiences. The company has been quietly building up an impressive book of business, a lot of which they can’t formally talk about.

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The Bosch Experience Zone.

The Bosch Experience Zone focuses on customer interaction, which is about exploring and experiencing. As an integral part of a shop-in-shop solution, the information terminal has the task of leading the customer to the building market, there are different approaches, for example, about projects that convey inspiration in a playful way. Service is the focus. Digital signage is at the POS - with the integration of the online shop - the ideal bridge for Omnichannel campaigns.

Renewed Mondriaanhuis / Amsterdam the Netherlands

Follow in the footsteps of Piet Mondrian. Accompany him on a trip at the renewed Mondriaanhuis along the cradles of his unique art. And look trough the eyes of the man who kept reinventing himself and his work. Tinker imagineers created the multimedia concept and a new design for the interior that refers to his entire oeuvre. The challenging premise was that most of the original works are in museums all over the world. That is why the journey starts with a video installation of Mondrian’s oeuvre.

A musical picture story that takes the visitors from his early landscapes and colourful seascapes to the abstract world he is famous for. Accompanied by the contemporary music that he liked, from Ravel to jazz, from Stravinsky to boogie-woogie. Mondrian spent his last years in New York, where he made a fresh start: he got rid of the black lines and explored new spaces in his work. Visitors enter Mondrian’s dream world, in which his work, the city, and his favourite music all melt together into one audio-visual spectacle.

Southwest Airlines Projection Mapping - Dallas.

Southwest Airlines Projection Mapping Experience.
A brand re-launch of epic proportions

DALLAS – Southwest Airlines revealed a new look with a stunning visual display. Rumors dominated the conversation this past week ( 2014 !!) as aviation insiders and enthusiasts speculated on what Southwest Airlines was going to announce. A host of reporters, bloggers, and Southwest Employees were called to Southwest Airlines Headquarters yesterday to witness a momentous unveiling effort told through a spectacular, larger-than-life video presentation.

Following days of teaser messages to Employees and Customers, the new look began to unveil at 2 a.m. CDT Monday morning. By 8:30 a.m. CDT the airline’s Hangar 5 was filled with media from all over the country as well as Southwest Employees and partners, and the show began.

“We wanted this to be a moment for the media and for Southwest’s Employees to really experience the power of their new look with a 4D experience they’ll remember for a lifetime,”

DME, and its creative partner, Go2 Productions, utilized multiple 35,000 lumen projectors, state of the art proprietary mapping software, and concert quality sound, bringing Hangar 5 to life with 3D mapped imagery that covered more than 13,000 square feet. More than 4,000 people were in attendance to witness the world’s first immersive 3D/4D projection experience in the interior of an airplane hangar.

“This show allowed Southwest Employees to feel pride in their brand and to experience a continued awakening of where they’re going in the future,” said Aaron Gaeir, Chief Executive Officer of Grandesign Media Services.

The day’s events were capped off with a deck party at the airline’s Maintenance Hangar, where Southwest Employees, partners, and members of the press were invited to see the new aircraft, displaying the new Heart livery, up close and personal.

Kineti Touchscreen Table - Powered by Microsoft Windows 10

La Table Kineti: For those looking for a table with screen and Windows 10, here's this design.
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DEX - Stockholm’s Mall of Scandinavia.

Mediatec & BAJT choose d3 2x2plus for new sculptural LED video installation at Stockholm’s Mall of Scandinavia.

London-based video architecture firm BAJT has created the volumetric content for DEX, the beautiful new sculptural video installation at the Mall of Scandinavia in Stockholm. BAJT was commissioned by Mediatec to showcase the full creative potential of the huge volumetric installation, which is 65 meters long and comprised of 3,800 LED strips, each with a maximum of 64 individually controlled pixels.

The Mall of Scandinavia is Scandinavia’s biggest shopping venue. It is located 5 kilometers from Stockholm’s city center. DEX is a permanent architectural installation, mounted in the ceiling, which runs 24/7. More information here