1993 MGM Grand Touch Multimedia Hotel and Casino Directory Kiosk

The Grand Touch Multimedia Hotel and Casino Directory for the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV.

Simply Magic Display Systems started the MGM project in 1993 after creating touch screen interactive kiosks for Malls, Airports, Hotels and Fitness Centers under the name DataVision.  We had the very first touch interactive kiosks at the Tucson International Airport in 1991.

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Paul Lyon is the original developer who designed and created custom windows based software enabling some of the first publicly used touch screen kiosks. His proprietary software would control interactive display screens with multimedia elements and could go unlimited layers deep.  Each full color screen could have up to 10 buttons that launched audio, mpeg1 video or go to another screen or list of items.  A few years before DataVision used serial controlled  Laserdisc video for training and on demand video content.   IBM re-writable optical disc drives gave Paul the ability to incorporate full screen video on demand.   Paul collaborated with developers at Microsoft, Elographics, MicroTouch, and Sound Blaster to test and help create tools to make information on demand possible.

Today, you carry way more power in your pocket, but back then we had to “Teach” people to touch the computer screen.

And those Amazing 3D animations and custom logos and graphics took days to render.  It’s incredible that with a gaming laptop you can do it real-time now!

 

MGM Grand Touch Kiosk 1993

MGM Grand Touch Kiosk 1993

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Description

Create an interactive touch screen hotel and casino directory for guests to use to navigate the world's largest hotel and casino.

More Details

Client
MGM GRAND Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
Project completed on 1993 - We used bleeding edge technology to display full screen MPEG video on demand, in a active casino environment. Display advertisements and in house promotional videos of the Grand Garden Arena, Restaurants and Theme park.
We were one of the original development companies who designed and created some of the first publicly used interactive kiosks. Our proprietary software would display screens with multimedia elements and could go unlimited layers deep. Each full color screen could have up to 10 buttons that launched audio and graphics, go to another screen or list of items, or play video and then go to another screen. Etc... We were beta test developers for Microsoft, Elographics and MicroTouch, and also Sound Blaster for multimedia sound. IBM supplied the optical disk drives that were 640 MB allowing almost an hour of on demand video. Today, you carry that power in your pocket, but back then we had to "Teach" people to touch the computer screen. Amazing 3D animations and custom logos and graphics made it way ahead of it's time.