3D Products of the Year

 

The International 3D & Advanced Imaging Society announced 13 products considered by its blue ribbon panel of judges to be the “Best 3D Products” of 2013. Special awards will also be presented to Mercedes-Benz, Regal Cinemas, and Sony Electronics. The awards will be presented at a ceremony to be held at Paramount Studios in Hollywood on September 18^th.
“From consumer cameras to home theatres to 3D apps to automobiles…there are superb new 3D technologies in the market right now,” said Society Awards Chairman, Buzz Hays. “3D technology is advancing at warp speed, and our judges had a wide variety of new products to pick from. In the end, we selected just thirteen.”
The “3D Products of the Year” include:

• “3D High Definition Head Mounted Display” – Sony
• “M801D80 Razor LED Smart TV with Theatre 3D” – Vizio
• “Portable 3D Laser Projector” – Optical Microvision Lab
• “Amblyz™” (Medical Solution) – XPAND 3D
• “HD3D View-Vaster™” – Cyclopital3D
• “Wide Angle Lens Adapter for Sony PMW-TD300” – Cyclopital3D
• “Stereo Base Extender for Panasonic HDC-Z10000” – Cyclopital3D
• “Hero 3” Portable Cameras – GoPro
• “DeepSee-X” (Under Water Mirror Rig) – DeepSee-X

more information here

How to make your Digital Signage screen look like a Poster.

Back in the old days – actually just a few years ago, installing Plasma and LCD screens were a nightmare…especially the 50″ or larger screens that weighed over  30 kgs. You needed two strong installers to carry and mount the screen on a bracket.
Things have changed now with the introduction of LED screens. They are half the weight and are not as deep as the Plasma or the LCD screens. This makes is easy to install but more importantly, they are perfect for making the screens look like digital posters. In this post we’ll show you how we came up with our own innovative solution to make a digital signage screen look like a poster driven by an an Intel I3/I5 digital signage player. Here’s a picture of the result:

So what did we do?

To make the LED screen look like a poster in a lightbox, you’ll need to have it flushed as close to the wall as possible. The limitation is always going to be the depth of the digital signage player (normally installed behind the screen), the power and network outlets, then the cables that protrude from the outlets.  So let’s say that the digital signage player was 4cm deep, and the wall outlet protruded 2cm and then the flat head power cable which is another 2cm. So your bracket needed to have a clearance of 4-5cm from the wall in order to cater for the cable and the player which makes the LED screen stick out too much.
So we solved this problem by installing the digital signage player, the network and power outlet in a metal box inside the wall.  Here’s a picture:

Now with the thinnest bracket we found (14mm deep), you’ll make your digital screen look like a poster!

Chinese Projector Market Now Bigger than U.S. Projector Market.

Posted  by Sara Abrons in ProAV News, rAVe Pubs 

PMA Research, market information expert on front projectors, has published a brand new report covering the growing projector market in China. Nick Rogers, CEO of PMA Research said, “China is now the largest projector market in the World, overtaking USA in the last year — with annual sales of 1.8 million units vs. annual sales of 1.6 million units in the United States.”

He went on to say, “In 2013Q2 GDP rose by ‘only’ 7.5 percent due to control of investment by the Chinese Government. In addition, the education procurement process began in Q2 as well, and large volume shipments are expected in 2013Q3 and beyond. Finally, the digital cinema market is exploding in China, and the home theater and pico and personal markets are expected to show gains in the next year as well.”

PMA Research has been expanding its coverage of the projector market in China, and recently hired Jennie Yi to open PMA’s Beijing office and spearhead the company’s research efforts there. Jennie worked with PMA’s
team of analysts to put together this inaugural quarterly report focusing the developing Chinese projector market.

The new report on China will be included as an ad hoc offering to clients who subscribe to PMA’s Worldwide Industry Service family of reports, and is also available for resale as a stand-alone report to anyone interested in following this growing market.
Want to see the report? Go here.

an interactive game experience.

The 2013 European Shell Eco-marathon, held at the Ahoy in Rotterdam saw XL Events work with creative agency Imagination to supply an AV package to produce an interactive game experience.

Bron; www.avinteractive.com
The event, held annually in Europe, America and Asia, is a competition for science, design, engineering and technology students is to design, build and drive the ultimate energy efficient vehicle.

More than 50,000 visitors attended the event, which saw XL supply a video system for one exhibit for the ‘Stress Nexus’, an interactive game based on National Geographic questions.

Questions were triggered wirelessly by the host via a touch screen tablet and displayed on to an 8×4.5m screen via XL’s Barco HDF W26 projectors. Competitors had 10 seconds to select an answer and physically move into their chosen answer zone.

Their movements were tracked using cameras and software, linked to Pandora’s Box HD Pro media servers, allowing real-time answer percentages to be displayed on-screen.

Once the correct answer was revealed, data was stored and collated on the media servers to reveal the overall result of each game. Lighting states and audio for the game were triggered via MIDI from the Pandora’s Box media servers.

Audio for the challenge was also supplied by XL, with D&B Q7’s and E18 sub speakers, a Shure Q5 radio microphone system, and DPA microphones all controlled by a Yamaha LS9 mixing desk.

The future of banking.

It’s impressive! Over 100,000 people have visited Bradesco Next (in São Paulo) since it’s inauguration in August 2012.” Luca Cavalcanti, Director of Bradesco Digital Channels"

TV Will Drive OLED Materials Market Growth.

Bron; www.ravepubs.com

Growing demand from large TV panels is expected to increase OLED material revenues at a compound annual growth rate of 67 percent through 2017, even as material revenue from mobile phones slows after 2014. According to the Quarterly OLED Materials Report from NPD DisplaySearch, revenues from organic materials used in the emission and common layers of OLED displays are forecasted to reach $530 million in 2013 and grow to $3.4 billion by 2017. The growing importance of OLED materials is emphasized by this month’s announcement that Samsung, the leading OLED panel manufacturer, was acquiring Novaled AG, a developer of common-layer OLED materials.

Until recently, active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) displays have mainly been used in mobile phones, but AMOLED display manufacturers are now starting to make inroads into TVs, tablet PCs, and other large-area display applications. OLED TV unit shipments are expected to remain modest at less than a million units in 2014 and only reaching 10 million after 2017, when they will account for 10 percent of total OLED panel shipments. However, on an area basis, OLED TV panels are expected to account for 17 percent of the OLED display materials market in 2014 and will exceed the share of mobile phone panels by 2016.

“The large size of TV panels will result in OLED display area growing quickly through 2017,” noted Jimmy Kim, senior analyst for NPD DisplaySearch. “The demand for materials in the emission, common, and other OLED layers is proportional to the area of the panels; furthermore, the low yield rates for OLED TV panel manufacturing means that the consumption of raw materials is further increased; thus, the introduction of OLED TVs will result in rapid growth in the market for OLED materials.”

Figure 1: Forecast of OLED Material Revenue by Application

Source: NPD DisplaySearch Quarterly OLED Materials Report

Groots LED scherm op Rotterdam Centraal.

In de stationshal van Rotterdam Centraal is gisteren een heel groot LED- beeldscherm  in gebruik genomen. Het beeldscherm heeft een lengte van 40 meter en een hoogte van 4,5 meter.

Het scherm, dat bestaat uit ruim 5 miljoen ledlampjes, moet de mensen in de stad dichter bij de haven brengen. Het scherm wordt de komende 10 jaar gebruikt om er beelden uit de haven op te laten zien. Zo moet de reiziger ervaren dat hij is aangekomen in of vertrekt uit een wereldhavenstad. De beelden zijn veelal zo dicht mogelijk geschoten op de huid van de havenmedewerker. Zo maken kijkers als het ware een korte reis van telkens 3 minuten door de haven.

Mega LEDscherm simuleert zonsondergang in mega gebouw.

In de Chinese stad Chengdu staat het New Century Global Center. Het gebouw is het grootste ter wereld en herbergt onder meer een kunstmatig strand met een gigantische ledscherm dat de horizon nabootst.

Bron; www.sign.nl

Het grootste gebouw ter wereld is 500 meter lang, 400 meter breed en 100 meter hoog. De 1,7 miljoen vierkante meter aan oppervlakte biedt onder andere plaats aan een cinema, shoppingcenter, een Mediterraans dorp, een olympische schaatsbaan, twee vijfsterrenhotels en een indoor strandresort.

Oceaan

Het design is volgens de ontwerpers geïnspireerd door de oceaan en de golven. Als bezoekers het gebouw van 18 verdiepingen binnenkomen, worden ze verrast door een zeebries. Het 400 meter lange strand is een toeristische trekpleister op zich. Het langste ledscherm ter wereld (150 x 40 m.) simuleert er de zonsop- en ondergang, maar kan ook als achtergrond dienen bij concerten op een drijvend podium.

Bekijk de artistimpressie van dit gebouw op deze video (het filmpje duurt 15 minuten, wij laten het hieronder echter direct starten bij het ledscherm).

Het New Century Global Center staat symbool voor groeiland China. De makers noemen het ‘een bezienswaardigheid die door de wereld met respect moet worden bekeken.

“26th rooftop-floor Four Seasons Hotel Beirut”

Bron; www.urbanscreen.com


  

Gesture-Driven Lobby Welcome Table.

Bron; www.sixteen-nine.net
A retail design firm, interactive agency and CalPoly students have collaborated on and lit up a very nice, innovative corporate lobby project that combines projection, gesture sensors, digital signage software and HD visuals.
The project is located in the downtown LA lobby of  Gensler and reflects the thinking and output of a Seattle-area  agency called The Hive. The installation is designed to engage and inform visitors.

Located in Gensler’s lobby, the smart space installation is designed to showcase the architectural firm’s portfolio of work. The experience attracts users toward a digitally augmented table, and book. The table is the SLO_Gen Table, an iconic collaboration between Gensler and architecture students at California Polytechnic School in San Luis Obispo. An interface appears on the table allowing visitors to use movements such as hand motions to digitally explore the content of Gensler’s urban architecture and modern cities monograph. The installation enhances each object with a new layer of digital content, and adds new context to the contents of the book.
The interface allows guests to access digital media from Gensler’s vast portfolio on a connected 4k video wall. This exceptional tableau showcases the firm’s work on across a variety of sectors ranging from expansive international airport projects in Palm Springs to Chennai, to intricate retail experiences in leading luxury stores—which can be explored on the video wall, or in the book.

It’s a nice mash-up of different technologies. and I like the way the visuals on the table surround the book and animate to encourage interaction. I also like how the Kinect sensors re-orient the user interface based on where the person stands as he or she walks up to the table.
The content management software is YCD’s and those are Planar screens tiled together in that 2 by 2 wall.