RSA Cosmos and Solotech have teamed up to deliver the brightest on-screen image in a planetarium in North America. The three-storey Infinity Dome theatre at the TELUS Spark Science Centre in Calgary, Canada, can show a 272,000 lumens image on its 21m-wide screen in 8K resolution. Spark wanted to overhaul…
An Australian film production has replicated a real-time ray tracing system, using ultra short throw projectors and ambient light rejecting screens. Ray tracing improves VFX realism by copying the way light reflects and refracts in the real world. The first-of-a-kind system was used by filmmaker Matt Drummond in the Don't…
The Battle of the Golden Spurs, the medieval combat between the royal army of France and rebellious forces of the County of Flanders has served as an inspiration for many books, poems and paintings. More than 700 years later, its story still speaks to the imagination of many. As of…
Two universities have jointly held the first intercontinental university class to use Professor Hologram technology. On one side of the Atlantic ocean were students and professors from Tecnológico de Monterrey, a private Mexican institution known as Tec, which developed the holographic system. And on the other side of the ocean…
Tempest outdoor projector enclosures have enabled an outdoors mapping display that brought down the curtain as part of the Caravan Stage Company’s final theatre performances, staged on a 30m-long ship. After more than 50 consecutive years of touring around the world, the final show, 'Virtual Rogues', was staged on the…
IKEA has hosted India’s first synchronised projections in three cities in Mumbai, Bengalaru, and Hyderabad. The events were designed to promote IKEA India's new brand positioning – Ghar Aa Jao, Come Home to IKEA. They were also intended to build a stronger, deeper emotional connection with customers, and invite people…
Aurora Multimedia has installed a fabric projection screen stretched across a balcony for the TV studio at the Royal Albert Hall for BBC Proms 2022, in a new departure for set design in coverage of this classic British institution. The elastane screen, which was 3m wide and 90cm high, displayed…
Exhibitors within the Experience UK Pavilion at IAAPA Expo Europe will be showcasing their innovations, with a projection-mapped centrepiece depicting a street party scene taking place on the upper deck of a London Routemaster bus. The Pavilion, curated by premier British trade body Experience UK, which represents the UK museum…
Barco has been appointed the preferred visualisation partner for d’strict, the Korean design company that creates spatial experiences and immersive digital media installations. The framework agreement designates Barco as the sole supplier of all the projectors for d’strict’s international digital Art Museum projects in the next four years. The deal,…
AV rental and video production company Revolution Productions has supplied the PA system, lighting and projection at the biggest LGBTQ+ festival in Northern Ireland, Belfast Pride 2022, opting for the Monoblox 32 508x294 FP 16:9 as the 'main event' screen. Joni Millar, operations manager at Revolution Productions, said: “It formed…
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