Projection-mapping specialist Maxin10sity was behind the first-ever multimedia show at the ancient sandstone city of Petra in southern Jordan. The highlight of Petra Light Festival – which combined projection art, music and narrative storytelling, and was attended by the more than 10,000 people – was Maxin10sity’s artwork, Re-Vision, which warped…
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Inside the immersive United Airlines Airshop innovation lab
United Airlines has opened an Airshop innovation centre that showcases the future of aviation with 270° immersive projection mapping and interactive content. The airline worked with the Next/Now experiential agency at the venue in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Next/Now had previously worked with United on large-scale digital content projects, such as…
Modulo Pi server powers immersive room in Saudi Arabia
Six Epson video projectors and a Modulo Pi media server have been installed at a visitor attraction in Saudi Arabia. A historical building in the port city of Yanbu – a member of the Unesco Global Network of Learning Cities – has been turned into a visitor centre that features…
Digital Projection masters the art of immersion in Paris
Paris-based system integrator ETC Onlyview has large-scale projection mapping down to a fine art at the Eternal Mucha exhibition, where nearly 30 Digital Projection laser projectors are helping to breathe new life into the art nouveau works of Czech artist Alphonse Mucha, more than 80 years after his death. The fourth event…
Christie Inspire Series lights up visitor attractions in China
Christie Inspire Series 1DLP laser projectors have been selected by visitor attractions in China’s Guangdong province as their preferred projection system. More than 80 projectors, including DWU760-iS, DWU860-iS and DWU960-iS models have been installed in the China Qiaodu Museum of Overseas Chinese and Jiangmen Local Chronicles Hall in Jiangmen City,…
Sony technology helps museum tell African diaspora story
The recently opened International African American Museum (IAAM) honours the difficult and often untold stories of the African American journey. The museum – located in Charleston's Gadsden’s Wharf, where many of the enslaved Africans arrived in the US – is using Sony technology to combine storytelling and history, while facilitating…
Projection mapping supports tribute to World War I veterans
Event production company DWP Live has provided projection support for a veterans tribute at the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri. The company used projection mapping technology and a combination of 30 Barco UDX 4k-32 and HDX W-20 projectors to display the Horizons artwork across the Liberty Memorial…
National Portrait Gallery embraces large-scale projection
Six units of Epson's flagship small and light laser projector, the EB-PU2120W, are lighting up a 15m x 8m projection wall at a new installation in London's National Portrait Gallery. The gallery reopens tomorrow for the first time since 2020, with creative technology contributions by immersive engineering and storytelling company…
Panasonic projection sheds light on Normandy landings
The D-Day Museum at Arromanches-les-Bains on the Northern French coast has chosen Panasonic projectors to illustrate the activity before, during, and after the historic Normandy landings, bringing the events of 1944 to life like never before through multiple immersive and interactive experiences. The newly rebuilt museum, working alongside AV integrator…
Immersive window experience transports passerbys to Capri
Michael Kors has unveiled an immersive window experience from today at La Rinascente in Milan, Italy. Taking over the iconic department store’s walkway and windows, across from Milan's cathedral, the Duomo, the experience is intended to transport passersby to the island of Capri at sunset while showcasing the brand’s Summer…