The Oxford Word of the Year 2013 was “selfie,” a photo one snaps of one’s self.

London-based architect Asif Khan, in technical collaboration with the Swiss firm iart, conceived a 3D “selfie” façade for the MegaFon Pavilion, a building belonging to Russia’s largest telecommunications company. It’s the first 3D actuated large-scale LED façade.

The technology allows MegaFon to project for 20 seconds an 8m tall 3D portrait of each participating visitor—and 170,000 people are expected to become a giant face at this 2014 Olympics.

The 2000-square-meter pavilion was built especially for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and contains an exhibition hall, hospitality areas, a viewing terrace, an amphitheater and two rooms for radio broadcasts.

The Matrix leverages existing IP infrastructure to create an AV matrix or video wall with up to 199x displays. The devices can be powered by standard network PoE or included power supplies.

It converts HDMI into native TCP/IP packets which can be transmitted over a network. It uses the latest generation chipset and almost completely lossless JPEG2000 compression which gives no visible latency or degradation. Audio is packetized with the image to ensure accurate synchronisation.

Up to 200 devices can be used on a LAN. So you might use it as a simple multicast distribution system with one transmitter and 199 x receivers, or you might setup a matrix for example with 10 x transmitters with 190 receivers. It uses 200mbps of bandwidth per transmitter.

Researchers at MIT have come up with a new approach that could have significant advantages over existing systems for transparent displays.

The new system embeds nanoparticles in the transparent material. These tiny particles can be tuned to scatter only certain wavelengths, or colors, or light, while letting all the rest pass right through. The glass remains transparent enough to see colors and shapes clearly through it, while a single-color display is clearly visible on the glass.

The researchers demo this by projecting a blue image in front of a scene containing cups of several colors, all of which can clearly be seen through the projected image.

An innovative executive video wall in Adobe Systems’ corporate headquarters has won three industry awards (a Marcom Platinum Award, a Bronze (DSA) Digital Screenmedia Association Crown Award, and a Davey Platinum Award).

Designed and created by Array Interactive, a digital signage agency based in Silicon Valley, the digital signage video wall installation was designed to express Adobe’s brand promise—“changing the world through digital experiences.”

Organically integrated into an executive lobby, onscreen content is initially hidden behind wood planks, designed to mimic a distinct attribute of interior’s façade.

To the delight of visitors the wood magically retracts when they step into the space, followed by a high impact display of interactive motion graphics media controlled exclusively by their movement. Advanced 3D sensors from Panasonic, Adobe Air, and Adobe Flash Media Server were combined to make this all possible.