Best Weatherproof Touch Screen for Interactive Experiences & More
Posted by Protective Enclosures Company on 23rd Jun 2022
Best Weatherproof Touch Screen for Interactive Experiences & More
How to Set Up Indoor or Outdoor Interactive Experiences: Weatherproof Touch Screens, TVs, Kiosks, and More
Emerging technology over the last several years is taking entertainment, advertising, education, and more to a new level via touch screen and software capabilities. Word of mouth travels quickly… customers and visitors tell each other which businesses and organizations stand out. One of the best ways to stand out is to offer modern digital signage and experiences. Articles such as Using Interactive Digital Signage to Increase Customer Engagement published on Digital Signage Today and “ 10 Key Stats Accelerating Digital Signage Adoption,” showcase the importance of and impressive success statics concerning interactive and digital signage. One Intel brief reports digital signage captures over 400 percent more views than a static sign. The same concept applies to entertainment venues and attractions, it is important to incorporate digital and interactive elements. This article dives into explaining interactive experiences and signage, the best indoor or outdoor weatherproof touch screens, and more.
Table of Contents
What is an Immersive Experience?
What is an Interactive Experience?
Common Components of Interactive and Immersive Experiences
What are the Benefits of Indoor and Outdoor Interactive and Immersive Experiences?
Interactive and Immersive Experience Examples
What is an Outdoor Interactive Experience?
Interactive Experience Screens: Considerations and Threats
What is the Best Touch Screen TV, Display, or Sign?
The Best Indoor or Outdoor Touch Screen Protection
What is a Weatherproof Touch Screen?
What are Common Uses of Indoor and Outdoor Touch Screens?
What is Indoor or Outdoor Digital Signage?
Common Places that Have Interactive Touch Screens
What is an Immersive Experience?
An immersive experience refers to a combination of visuals, sound, and technology (which often includes interactive components) to create immersive real or imagined worlds. Common pieces of these experiences can be indoor or outdoor interactive screens, artwork, projections, VR devices, speakers, indoor or outdoor rooms or spaces, small rides, bikes, indoor or outdoor interactive games, or other props. Many elements work together to fully immerse the user or visitors in another world. Immersive and interactive experiences are very popular and excellent ways for almost any facility, organization, business, entertainment venue, school, or event to stand out.
What is an Interactive Experience?
Interactive experiences connect visitors or users with the environment in an interactive way. Sometimes the terms interactive and immersive experiences are used interchangeably. However, sometimes immersive experience may refer to a more comprehensive full experience as opposed to an interactive experience may refer to a specific smaller element of an immersive experience which includes an interactive element. For example, immersive experience may be used to describe a full immersive digital experience set up at a museum and the experience may feature an interactive game experience within the exhibit. These engaging and stimulating sites and events offer interactive elements the help visitors and users connect, learn, and enjoy the world, storyline, information, content, or topic at hand. These experiences can be found in various types of venues.
Common Components of Interactive and Immersive Experiences
The most important elements of any interactive or immersive experience are the vision, plan, story, content, and information that are the focus of the experience. Without those elements, the experience won’t be enjoyable or effective. Once those base elements are established, below is a list of additional popular and helpful parts of immersive and interactive experiences.
Checklist and Supply Ideas for Interactive or Immersive Experiences
- Touch Screens (The TECO Clean Energy Center Interactive Experiences is a great example which utilizes The TV Shield PRO enclosures with Touch Frames)
- Software
- Games or educational content
- Art displays
- Bikes
- VR technology
- Projectors
- Rides
- Indoor or outdoor touch screen kiosks (digital kiosks)
- Multi-touch tables
- Sets and transformed spaces
- Interactive video walls
- Interactive or game tables
- Speakers
- Various props that fit the theme of the experience
What are the Benefits of Indoor and Outdoor Interactive and Immersive Experiences?
- Increase loyalty to your brand
- Improve effectiveness by educating in an engaging way
- Heighten morale and happiness via entertainment
- Boost sales
- Provides a seamless experience
Interactive and Immersive Experience Examples
Popular and Best Immersive and Interactive Experiences:
The TECO Clean Energy Center Interactive Experiences
Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience
Virtual Reality Experience Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge
Museum of Ice Cream: An Immersive (and Delicious) Experience
Dinos Alive Exhibit: An Immersive Experience
Klimt: The Immersive Experience
What is an Outdoor Interactive Experience?
Outdoor interactive or immersive experiences are simply experiences which take place outdoors rather than inside. Given that many interactive and immersive experiences feature virtual reality, screens, and other various technology, outdoor experiences utilize durable and weatherproof supplies to make the experience work.
Interactive Experience Screens: Considerations and Threats
TV screens (digital displays, kiosks, monitors, or the like) are popular elements of immersive and interactive experiences, but of course it is important to protect those screens. The purpose the screen serves can have some impact on the level of defense needed for the screen. Below are considerations and threats for indoor and outdoor interactive screens used for indoor or outdoor immersive or interactive experiences.
Common Considerations and Threats for Interactive Experience Screens
- Tampering
- Theft
- Screen impact (such as flying objects, people pounding on the screen, etc.)
- Weather and extreme temperatures (hot and cold)
- Water (rain, pool splashes, sprinklers, wash downs)
- Moisture (condensation, dew, steam, humidity, dampness)
- Saltwater air and corrosion
- Dust
- Grime
- Pests (bugs, insects)
What is the Best Touch Screen TV, Display, or Sign?
What screens are best for interactive experiences? The best screen solution for interactive experiences is typically a durable and shatterproof option, which means a TV enclosure (like The TV Shield PRO) is perfect. An enclosure like The TV Shield PRO protects from typical threats at an immersive experience while still offering a great aesthetic. It could also be painted or decorated by the customer if needed. To make the screen interactive, The TV Shield PRO also has an add on weatherproof IR Touch Frame .
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The Best Indoor or Outdoor Touch Screen Protection
What is the best indoor or outdoor touch screen TV and display protection? Given that the benefits of indoor and outdoor TVs and digital signage for businesses are numerous, it is important to protect those screens in certain scenarios. Indoor and outdoor TV enclosures are the best of the best when it comes to protecting TVs and displays. Various enclosure models are available for different commercial uses.
What is a Weatherproof Touch Screen?
A weatherproof touch screen TV or digital display refers to a touch screen TV solution which is weatherproof. Indoor TV and digital signage screens are not safe to use outdoors. There are not full weatherproof TV and digital signage screens on the market that can truly stand up to harsh environmental or human threats. However, weatherproof TV enclosures are a perfect solution. These enclosures can be paired with any standard television to make them weatherproof, shatterproof, and durable in almost any environment. A TV or digital display paired with an enclosure and Protective Enclosures Company’s IR Touch Frame is a perfect weatherproof solution. These may be used for outdoor touch screen kiosks, interactive games, menu boards, customer service information centers, and much more.
Are touch screens waterproof?
Outdoor touch screen enclosures are water-resistant not waterproof. The best quality outdoor touch screen solutions withstand regular rain or wash downs just fine. They are not considered waterproof only because they cannot be submerged completely in water.
What are Common Uses of Indoor and Outdoor Touch Screens?
What is Indoor or Outdoor Digital Signage?
Digital signage refers to digital displays (such as TVs, displays, monitors, LCD, LED, etc.) that display digital content which might include images, video, web pages, weather data, restaurant menus, sound, maps, or text. Digital signage is used in public spaces ranging from theme parks, transportation systems, museums, schools, hospitals, stadiums, retail stores, hotels, restaurants, and corporate buildings, to food trucks and more. The commonly are used for many purposes, some of which include wayfinding, displaying information, customer service, interactive content or games, exhibitions, marketing, outdoor advertising.
Digital signage could refer to one screen, standalone screens, or a network of electronic displays that are centrally managed and individually controlled. The benefits of digital signage are extensive. Advantages such as the ability to show movement which catches attention, show unlimited colors and content, utilize sound or touch if needed, streamline and automate information delivery, and more are undeniable.
Common Places that Have Interactive Touch Screens
Weatherproof touch screens and outdoor interactive displays are commonly found at many businesses and organizations. Below is a list of many places these screens may be found.
- Restaurants
- Food trucks
- Theme parks
- Casinos
- Escapes rooms
- Hotels
- Gas stations
- Airports
- Museums
- Parks
- Corporate buildings and offices
- Schools
- Educational programs and facilities
- Hospitals
- Court houses
- Banks
Takeaway
Interactive and immersive experiences are popular and favored among the population. When setting up an immersive or interactive experience, it is important to build the experience in such a way that protects the hardware, especially indoor and outdoor screens. Indoor and outdoor TV and display enclosures are the reliable and affordable way to achieve this.
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