Installations.
All Remiam work tagged Installations — across client systems, own products, and the studio's field notes.
- 20 Sept 2026→
The pause is the product
Google has shipped a voice model that talks while it thinks. The benchmark gain is real. The more useful lesson is that the silence between a question and an answer is now something you design.
- 14 Sept 2026→
The forecast refreshes every hour now.
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext 3 produces a fresh global forecast every hour, with temperature and moisture at about 5 kilometres, and developers can query it today. For anything we build that runs outdoors, the interesting change is not the accuracy. It is that the weather decision no longer has to be made once, at breakfast.
- 13 Sept 2026→
Chrome halved the gap.
From Chrome 153 on 8 September, a new stable Chrome ships every two weeks instead of every four, on desktop, Android and iOS. For most sites that is nothing. For a screen bolted to a wall in a venue, it doubles the number of browsers your build has to survive in a year.
- 9 Sept 2026→
Photoreal now costs you latency.
DLSS 5 shipped on 3 September with 3D-guided neural rendering, and Nvidia is upfront that switching it on takes 50 to 60 per cent of your frame rate away. You buy that back with generated frames, which add input lag. In a game that is a preference. In an installation somebody stands in front of, it is the product.
- 31 Aug 2026→
The stand split in two.
IFA opens in Berlin on 4 September and one of its biggest names will not be on the grounds. Samsung has moved its trade and media programme into the city and put its sponsorship behind the show's creator studios instead. Read that as a brief, not a snub: the exhibition stand has quietly become two different products.
- 24 Aug 2026→
The phone grew a moving part.
Honor put a four-axis titanium gimbal on the back of a phone and shipped it at RMB 9,999. For a studio that maintains hardware in public spaces, the interesting number is not the megapixels. It is the duty cycle of a motor in something people drop.
- 23 Aug 2026→
Colour got cheap, the install did not.
Micro RGB started life as a single 115-inch halo product at $29,999. The 2026 lineup runs from 55 inches at $1,599.99, with a 100-inch still to come. For anyone specifying screens into a physical space, that changes which line on the quote is actually the expensive one.
- 19 Jul 2026→
Printed OLED leaves the lab.
Lenovo shipped the first laptop with an inkjet-printed OLED panel this week. The screen is not the story. The manufacturing method is, because printing panels instead of evaporating them is what finally moves large OLED into the price bracket where we can specify it.
- 6 Jul 2026→
The Steam Machine is a fixed target.
Valve shipped a small SteamOS box on 30 June and everyone read it as a console. For a studio that keeps installations alive for years, the interesting thing is that it is a fixed, repeatable target you can buy off the shelf.
- 1 Jul 2026→
Wi-Fi 8 stops chasing speed
The next Wi-Fi standard keeps the same top speed as the last one and spends its whole budget on reliability instead. For the work we do in venues and on-site installs, that is the more interesting number.
- 30 Aug 2024→
Edge installations: when on-prem is a feature, not a compromise.
Some systems belong on the edge. The cloud-first reflex is wrong more often than the industry will admit. Here is the framework we use to decide, the hardware we deploy, and the conversation we always have with clients before specifying.
- 30 Nov 2020→
When the Christmas tree pings an API.
Westfield needed Santa during a Covid Christmas. We built a WebRTC video-call platform — and let kids pick the tree lights live with an Arduino on the other end. Here is the technical walk-through, the production challenges, and the lessons we still apply to every hardware brief.
- 5 Nov 2018→
USB-C on the iPad Pro. Finally.
Apple just put a real port on the iPad. After eight years of dongles and proprietary connectors, the implications are bigger than the announcement suggested — particularly for studios shipping installation work where the iPad has been quietly the most-used screen in the box.