Digital Signage Blog » beijing olympics http://www.digitalsignageblog.com Digital signage blog - the blog of digital signage Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:54:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Digital Signage presence at the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony http://www.digitalsignageblog.com/2008/08/09/digital-signage-presence-at-the-beijing-olympics-opening-ceremony/ http://www.digitalsignageblog.com/2008/08/09/digital-signage-presence-at-the-beijing-olympics-opening-ceremony/#comments Sat, 09 Aug 2008 06:16:16 +0000 DigitalSignageBlog http://www.digitalsignageblog.com/2008/08/09/digital-signage-presence-at-the-beijing-olympics-opening-ceremony/ 8/8/8 @8 (for those of you who didn’t know the number 8 in the Chinese Tradition is meant to be a very lucky number)

What a great start to the Beijing Olympics.  The opening ceremony was amazing, but what was more amazing and interesting was seeing the use of digital signage technology during this event. There were four noticeable uses of digital signage:

1. The “drum” signage – this was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. When I first saw this, I thought of calling it the human LED board. Basically, drums were being lit up like an LED screen and it’s main function was to use this as the official countdown system. The co-ordination and the synchronisation of all those involved was unbelievable – see it for yourself:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-hNteEIKRk

2. Olympic Globe – I don’t know exactly how they pulled this off but it was very clever. Based from what I saw, they used very large projectors to project images on the globe (maybe from all sides of the stadium). I don’t know how they ended up getting the image to wrap around the globe but it was great to watch.

Beijing Olympics Globe

3. The moving floor screen – the floor in the stadium was actually being used as a screen (the size of a football field)… now that’s one massive screen

Beijing Olympics Stadium Floor

4.Stadium infrastructure – digital signage was all around the Beijing stadium.

Digital Signage Beijing Olympic Stadium

Overall, this was one magnificent event and congratulations to all those who were involved… especially with implementing and co-ordinating the digital signage solutions.

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]]> http://www.digitalsignageblog.com/2008/08/09/digital-signage-presence-at-the-beijing-olympics-opening-ceremony/feed/ 0 Digital Signage in Beijing Olympics 08 http://www.digitalsignageblog.com/2008/07/31/digital-signage-in-beijing-olympics-08/ http://www.digitalsignageblog.com/2008/07/31/digital-signage-in-beijing-olympics-08/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:37:56 +0000 DigitalSignageBlog http://www.digitalsignageblog.com/2008/07/31/digital-signage-in-beijing-olympics-08/ With only a couple of days to the Beijing Olympics ’08, I was thinking about what digital signage implementations will be used in the Olympic venues and around the Beijing stadium.

We won’t be going to Beijing this year, but we are interested to know what digital  signage solutions they are using there. Does anyone know? If so, we’ll like to hear from you (in fact, I think the online digital signage community would also like to hear from you too)  and if you have any images of the solution feel free to post it up on our digital signage portal forum. We have created a topic there for you to discuss and upload pictures.

Finally, we hope that the Beijing Olympics runs smoothly and without any dramas.

Beijing Olympics Logo

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