UK University Testing Big Hologram-ish Displays For Remote Guest Lectures

January 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes

I have my doubts about some of the retail and consumer being floated by the companies who make and market those big, shower stall-sized …

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LED And Hologram-ish Transparent LCD Create Gingerbread House Christmas Activation In London

November 23, 2023 by Dave Haynes

An “activation” for the beauty brand Jo Malone uses a blend of LED, transparent LCD and scent marketing for a pop-up gingerbread house on …

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Japanese Railway Auto-Translates Customer Queries As Chats On Transparent Screens In Station

August 3, 2023 by Dave Haynes

A Japanese passenger railway has started testing a service that auto-translates conversations at customer information counters – enabling foreign travellers with little or no …

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Court Filings On $200M Lawsuit Filed By Cooler Screens Against Walgreens Detail A Big Freaking Mess

June 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes

An industry friend sent me a copy of the complaint filed with an Illinois court regarding the dispute between US chain drug giant Walgreens …

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Proto Tilts Its Hologram-Ish Display Stalls To Landscape Mode For Virtual Meetings Use

June 5, 2023 by Dave Haynes

The company that introduced the concept of hologram-ish virtual presence transparent LCD displays, and spawned numerous firms “inspired” by the idea, has started showing …

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Hologram-ish Transparent LCD Used To Virtually Greet, Guide Visitors At Amsterdam Office Complex

March 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes

Here’s an interesting real world application of those shower stall-like, hologram-ish transparent LCD units – making a life-sized and live host available to visitors …

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Outform Showing Digital Mannequins At EuroShop That Borrow On Those Transparent Hologram-Ish Displays

March 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes

The retail design and visual merchandising firm Outform is at the giant Euroshop trade show in Düsseldorf, Germany this week showing, among many things, …

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Korean Firm Marketing LCD In Film As Projection Screen

June 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes

One of my routines at trade shows – revived recently at InfoComm – is doing a big walk of an exhibit hall and going …

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Ukraine’s President Zelensky Appears At Multiple EU Conferences Via One Of Those Hologram-Ish Set-Ups

June 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes

There is absolutely a gimmick side to the hologram-ish set-ups that are a bit like shower stalls with a transparent LCD front to them, …

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PORTL Rebrands As Proto; Adds Mini Version Of Hologram-ish Transparent LCD Display

March 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes

The LA start-up that made a name for itself for using big transparent LCDs and clever lighting to create hologram-ish virtual presence experiences has …

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Toronto Mega-Mall Uses PORTL’s Hologram-ish Displays To Run Virtual Fashion Shows Through Holiday Season

December 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes

(Image: Dustin Fuhs) An “activation” that’s somewhere between interesting and gimmick-y used one of PORTL’s transparent LCD set-ups to do a virtualized fashion show …

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PORTL Closes $12M Fundraising Round To Grow Demand For Its Virtual Presence Products

November 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes

The company that has really pushed the possibilities for transparent LCD and marketed a quasi-hologram-ish virtual presence product called PORTL has just announced a …

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