Well, here in a European city, there's a drinks chiller using a similar technology at the train station, and a display unit that lets you call up displayed devices' specs on its front glass in the tech section of a hypermarket. I can't say that I've noticed either grabbing consumers by the lapels and engaging them.
We're pretty desensitized to moving images at this point. I'm not sure something like this will translate into increased foot traffic and sales.
On an amusing side note, we used to point a couple of big Sony Trinitrons into the street from the glass front of our computer shop. One ran a cycling slide presentation that showed our daily deals and current prices for a our three tiers of desktop computers we'd build by default. The other usually displayed a rolling demo of a popular game or some other visually interesting thing. There were a few looping demo benchmarks that predated 3Dmark's stuff that we put out there. The displays got some gawking from people passing by, but they didn't directly result in diverting pedestarians into our shop. This was all pre-WinXP too so we had to be pretty conscious about restarting those systems periodically for fear of displaying Windows 9x BSODs to the street. I'm sure that would have made gotten a few cynical giggles and comments about Bill Gates.
Bah, should have used NT or Linux! I remember when we dual booted with Win 9x (can't remember which one) and Win 2K. The former was for gaming as the drivers never worked properly in 2K and the later was for work when we wanted to type more than a sentence in Word without it crashing.
Despite the massive improvement in stability and the autosaving and document recovery, the habit of pressing "CTRL+S" after every few sentences or every good idea remains intact. MS, I can never trust you.
Also, I think that having large screens for offers is largely a waste of money. It's cheaper and just as effective to have a few posters printed every so often and an actual product in the window. Ideally with a spot light on it (although not too hot - a melted puddle of beige box never looks good). I work in a hospital and they've spent thousands on these stupid screens (which are more often than not either dead or displaying a BSOD) which displays basic information like where to check in - stuff which should be done using a poster and not a stupidly expensive vanity box which hardly ever works. The NHS in the UK is in an appalling condition regarding funding and to see them piss it away on these things is abhorrent. Rant rant rant....
I guess you may have seen also the council offices "hologram" greeter on the TV news a few months back (somewhere in London) which was only marginally cheaper than employing a real person to interact with visitors and tell them where the various departments were. Never mind just painting a sign... And they complain they are short of cash... <sigh>
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Hamm Burger - Monday, March 13, 2017 - link
Well, here in a European city, there's a drinks chiller using a similar technology at the train station, and a display unit that lets you call up displayed devices' specs on its front glass in the tech section of a hypermarket. I can't say that I've noticed either grabbing consumers by the lapels and engaging them.BrokenCrayons - Monday, March 13, 2017 - link
We're pretty desensitized to moving images at this point. I'm not sure something like this will translate into increased foot traffic and sales.On an amusing side note, we used to point a couple of big Sony Trinitrons into the street from the glass front of our computer shop. One ran a cycling slide presentation that showed our daily deals and current prices for a our three tiers of desktop computers we'd build by default. The other usually displayed a rolling demo of a popular game or some other visually interesting thing. There were a few looping demo benchmarks that predated 3Dmark's stuff that we put out there. The displays got some gawking from people passing by, but they didn't directly result in diverting pedestarians into our shop. This was all pre-WinXP too so we had to be pretty conscious about restarting those systems periodically for fear of displaying Windows 9x BSODs to the street. I'm sure that would have made gotten a few cynical giggles and comments about Bill Gates.
philehidiot - Monday, March 13, 2017 - link
Bah, should have used NT or Linux! I remember when we dual booted with Win 9x (can't remember which one) and Win 2K. The former was for gaming as the drivers never worked properly in 2K and the later was for work when we wanted to type more than a sentence in Word without it crashing.Despite the massive improvement in stability and the autosaving and document recovery, the habit of pressing "CTRL+S" after every few sentences or every good idea remains intact. MS, I can never trust you.
Also, I think that having large screens for offers is largely a waste of money. It's cheaper and just as effective to have a few posters printed every so often and an actual product in the window. Ideally with a spot light on it (although not too hot - a melted puddle of beige box never looks good). I work in a hospital and they've spent thousands on these stupid screens (which are more often than not either dead or displaying a BSOD) which displays basic information like where to check in - stuff which should be done using a poster and not a stupidly expensive vanity box which hardly ever works. The NHS in the UK is in an appalling condition regarding funding and to see them piss it away on these things is abhorrent. Rant rant rant....
Murloc - Monday, March 13, 2017 - link
the screens everywhere is a dumb habit that schools and universities have taken up too.philehidiot - Monday, March 13, 2017 - link
Must... Resist.... The.... Urge..... To... Hack.........The fun I could have....
... If I could hack.
asmian - Monday, March 13, 2017 - link
I guess you may have seen also the council offices "hologram" greeter on the TV news a few months back (somewhere in London) which was only marginally cheaper than employing a real person to interact with visitors and tell them where the various departments were. Never mind just painting a sign... And they complain they are short of cash... <sigh>Notmyusualid - Friday, March 17, 2017 - link
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