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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PORTL’s Transparent Displays Being Used By University’s Health Educators To Demonstrate Disorders

August 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes

Much of the attention around the use of transparent displays to show people at life-size dimension, in remote locations, has been focused on sectors …

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2020 NBA Title Ring Virtualized And Sold As Crypto Token, Based On PORTL’s Transparent LCD

May 24, 2021 by Dave Haynes

I’m putting out there, immediately, that I understand maybe half of the following, as it has something or other to do with crypto-currencies and …

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VSBLTY, Onyx Glass Partner On Idea Of Cooler As A Service For Digital Chiller Door Screens

May 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes

The screens as grocery and c-store chiller doors thing has been around perhaps as long as a decade, and while marketplace adoption seems pretty …

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PORTL Puts Swiss Timepiece Execs At Shanghai Trade Show, Without Leaving Alps

April 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes

I’m a big fan of what PORTL is doing with its remote display system, for use-cases like new luxury watch launches and demos done …

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