Volume 13, Issue 8 — April 29, 2021

rAVe DS [Digital Signage] — Volume 13, Issue 8

April 30, 2021 | Volume: 13 | Issue: 8

Hey, everybody! If you’re reading this, that means you made it through April. Congrats! Nearly everyone I’ve talked to in our industry has said it has been quite a month, and I agree. Glad that’s out of the way.

So, let’s keep this short.

Check out Gary’s column about the chip shortage that is either affecting or will affect you soon. Also, Bob Snyder wrote a column about Germany’s largest extended reality entertainment space (featuring some pretty cool signage along with it).

Also, catch the product updates from Barix, Merim Groupe, Brompton Technology and more.

I just got my second COVID-19 vaccine today — I’m going to go nap. Happy Friday!

— Steph Beckett

COLUMNS

+ How the Chip Shortage Could Decimate the AV, UCC and Digital Signage Markets and How You Can Avoid Its Effects [Gary Kayye]

Do not underestimate what I am about to tell you. In case you haven’t been reading the tech sections of the newspapers lately, there’s a global semiconductor shortage (branded as the “chip shortage of 2021”) and, although it hasn’t affected our market yet, it will, starting in late July.

+ Germany’s Largest “Extended Reality” Entertainment Space [Bob Snyder]

The first HOLOGATE WORLD will open its doors in September this year as a key attraction in FLAIR, a newly modernized urban marketplace in Fürth, Germany. Embedded between the Neue Mitte, town hall and city theater, FLAIR is Fürth’s largest retail property with 18,000 m². It’s a three-floor shopping and adventure experience sporting a new motto: “Wow-Shopping.” Shopping there might offer more than 60 tenants, but the “wow” will certainly come from HOLOGATE WORLD, which features the latest virtual reality systems, revolutionary extended reality escape rooms and a competitive esports arena.