Working with David Johnston, Julie Paterson and Alex Stennett from the University of Gloucestershire, MRG is moving forward to adopt the Agile software development technique called Scrum. Scrum is a team-based approach designed to deliver value to customers and to the business. The MRG team includes members from different parts of the company who work… Read more …
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LiveSpace localisation
The localisation feature in LiveSpace is a fresh look at making digital signage more responsive and relevant at the coal face. Local managers become more engaged when given the opportunity to directly influence the popularity and potential success of their unit or department through well chosen, tailored advertising. If customer communication and experience is improved… Read more …
ICE 2017 – Racing and Sports Summary Screens
One of the featured products on the MRG stand at ICE 2017 was the racing and sports betting summary screen designed for betting operators to display a variety of events taking place on the day of the event. The markets for football, basketball, golf or any other event can be displayed. Equally, a betting operator… Read more …
Communicating transport updates to the travelling public
Travel can be difficult sometimes. So when everything seems to be gridlocked how do you communicate the options available to an information hungry audience? Tube strikes can close large swathes of a network, roads can be gridlocked and bus queues might form to snake around a terminus. This is the very moment when timely and… Read more …
HTML templates are easy
One of the crucial aspects of MRG’s display systems is the inclusion of HTML templating. Prior to the existence of HTML, all display systems had to create and use proprietary languages. This caused training and development issues for everyone concerned. HTML is now the most commonly used display language and is at the root of… Read more …
Future Decoded 2016 at London ExCeL
Recently the development team visited the Microsoft event Future Decoded 2016 at London ExCeL. One of the central themes of the keynote speakers was Artificial Intelligence (AI). Katja Hofmann from Microsoft Research Cambridge talked about using bots in the Minecraft game to learn about their surroundings and make informed decisions based upon previous experience. One… Read more …
Irish Forum – November 2016
Maynooth, which is 20 miles west of Dublin is where we met our Irish independent customers over two days in November. A lot of these customers had ordered shop servers from us as instructed by their price provider, so it was good to finally meet those that we had not done so before. Adrian Potter… Read more …
A quick summary of 2016
We’ve had an exciting year with the installation of 128 ten inch tablets at the National Assembly for Wales and digital signage at YouTube Space in London. We’ve exhibited at the Retail Digital Signage Expo at Olympia, ICE Totally Gaming at Excel, the Gloucestershire Business Show at Cheltenham Racecourse and the Bookmakers Trade Fair in… Read more …
YouTube Space and LiveSpace digital signage
Google have built new offices in Kings Cross, London and on the ground floor they have created the UK version of YouTube Space. This is a place where top contributors are invited to broadcast live at special events or use the first class facilities their three studios offer. The frontage is a series of windows… Read more …
Meet us at Solihull, Birmingham and Maynooth, Ireland
At MRG we have always valued our customer’s input into the development of our products. To support this over the next few weeks we will be exhibiting at the Bookmakers’ Trade Fair in Solihull (October 27th) as well as holding a forum for our independent customers in Ireland at the end of November. We always… Read more …