Few sectors have been as badly hit by the pandemic as dining. Research from the Local Data Company has revealed that England, Scotland and Wales have lost a net 11.4 per cent of chain restaurants alone since the first lockdown in March 2020. You don’t have to spend long in…
ZetaDisplay has won a 10-year contract with ATG, the Swedish Horse Racing Totalisator Board, to design and deliver a retail digital signage network over the next 10 years. ZetaDisplay has already worked for ATG for the last four years, and picked up the new contract win following a competitive tender.…
PPDS’s range of Netflix-ready, Chromecast built-in advanced Philips MediaSuite TVs has been selected and installed in all guest rooms and suites inside the Hard Rock Hotel in Amsterdam, as part of a recent refurbishment and upgrade programme. With the rise of in-room entertainment usage, the hotel felt it needed an…
A New York City restaurant, The Brooklyn Chop House has paid tribute to The Notorious B.I.G by hosting an avatar of the late rapper in a holographic booth. The avatar was created by digital human studio Hyperreal for a forthcoming metaverse project featuring the singer, while the avatar was housed…
Pro Display has recently completed a project to provide technology solutions for the Chapel Restaurant at the newly refurbished Bodmin Jail Hotel, in Cornwall. The hotel wanted to create a bright and inviting environment during the day that showcased the history of the building, with the option of producing a…
A 1,400sqm curved video display created by SNA Displays has been installed on the outside of a dual-branded hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The 15m-high LED video façade at the Moxy/AC Hotel Downtown Los Angeles is the largest continuous digital canvas in the city centre. It has been built from…
The Alan Hotel in Manchester, born of partnerships between artists, chefs, designers and forward-thinkers, has brought Uniguest’s Volara solution into its eclectic ecosystem with a Google Nest Hub in every guest room. The design-led and tech-forward hotel is one of only four in the UK to offer Google Nest smart…
Nestled 3,900m above sea level amongst the mountainous peaks of Shigatse, Tibet, the recently completed Everest Grand Theatre holds the accolade of being the highest altitude professional theatre in the world and has been dubbed “the artistic pearl of the world’s third pole”. When Chinese AV solutions provider EZPro was…
In 2009, Twitter had recently appeared on the scene, Bitcoin had just been invented by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto. The same year, at Parx Casino - a thoroughbred horse racing venue and the largest casino gaming complex in Pennsylvania, digiLED installed three giant screens on the roof of the casino…
Fine art auctioneer Christie's has holoported a sculpture by Edgar Degas with a valuation of between $20 million and $30 million. The statue was taken on a virtual tour from New York to San Francisco and Hong Kong in a move which beat rising shipping costs and reduced the tour's…
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