Digital Signage Blog by Mirada Media

Looking for somewhere in downtown Montreal to watch the remaining World Cup Soccer (or Football) matches? A couple of our clients are playing the games on our digital signage screens:

• Galerie Place Ville Marie’s food court digital signage, including the 104″ video-wall, will be switching to the World Cup feed today at 2pm ET for the semi-final match between Germany and Spain.
• Vua Sandwichs info boards will be switching from regular news programming to today’s semi-final game.  Grab a sub and their cold coffee drink…so tasty.

Digital Menu Boards at Trendz

We added a quick client focus piece on a recent digital menu board install for Alberta Health Services at their Trendz Cafe in the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute of Edmonton, AB.

A portion of the three-screen menu system is dedicated to providing an engaging customer experience by featuring a loop of animated tips, promoting a healthy lifestyle and better eating habits like low-sodium foods and meals containing whole grains.

We’re seeing a big increase in interest for digital menu boards in the QSR industry. On-the-fly reactions to inventory and promoting featured items in the queue to more unique applications like displaying a live video feed of the kitchen are just some of the benefits restaurant owners are getting—AHS added promoting wellness to that list and we’re proud to have taken part in the project.

Activetuts+ (formerly known as Flashtuts+) has a simple tutorial on…how to detect intruders using Flash and a web cam. OK, you may not really need to use your digital signage to detect intruders but detecting motion can be an interesting way to add some interactivity or create interest in your digital sign.

Augmented reality is really hot these days and is only picking up steam. Some creative Flash programming and a $30 web-cam could be the poor man’s AR.