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New Developments at I/ITSEC 2015

by Tom Allen

Held at the start of December in Orlando, Florida, I/ITSEC (Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference) 2015 is the world’s largest modelling, simulation and training event. Attendees come from the education, retail, military and …

Le Petit Chef Keeps Diners Entertained

by Tom Allen

A French restaurant, Le Petit Chef, is using a unique way to entertain their guests while waiting for their order: projection mapping. Projectors above the table show an animation – involving a literally ‘petit’ …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mapping & Cartography| Projection| Vol 22 - Issue 45

Christie and Microsoft project on people at Cannes

by Isaac Oburu

Christie® and Microsoft brought mixed-reality technologies to the beachfront in Cannes, where visitors to the Microsoft Beach Club experienced the latest in projection mapping collaborations thanks to customized projects which used Microsoft Kinect technology …

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Using People as a Billboard in Cannes

by Tom Allen

Visitors to the Microsoft Beach Club, in Cannes, experienced graphics projected onto their own bodies thanks to work between Microsoft and Christie. The project used Microsoft’s Kinect, to track movement, and Christie projectors (HD14K-M) …

Dartmouth College Develops Prism Display

by Tom Allen

A coloured image has been projected, using a device containing no coloured components. Researchers from Dartmouth College in the USA and Disney Research Zürich built a photo projection system that uses black images, a …

Tags:Colour (Color)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Projection| Vol 22 - Issue 43

Central Glass Uses Diamond in Projection Glass

by Tom Allen

Central Glass, a Japanese firm, has developed a way to deliver sharp projected images on windows. The company creates glass that can serve as a projection screen, by baking diamond particles into the surface. …

Tags:Glass| Japan| Large Display Monitor| Projection| Vol 22 - Issue 39

AV Stumpfl Revives the Bronze Age

by Tom Allen

AV Stumpfl’s control, multimedia and screen products have been used in the new Bronze Age Cinema, 400m below the ground at Austria’s Saltzwelten salt mine experience. Located in a 1,000m³ cavern, the Cinema uses …

AV Stumpfl Helps Take 4K Cinema Underground and Back to Bronze Age!

by Tom Allen

Multimedia specialists, Scenomedia’s latest installation at Austria’s famous Salzwelten salt mine experience includes the new Bronze Age Cinema located 400 metres below the Earth’s surface in natural Dachstein limestone bedrock of the Hallstatt Mountain …

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New in Digital Projection – High Contrast HDR

by Steve Sechrist

MTT showed its High Contrast HDR projection prototype at Siggraph that truly was an impressive demonstration, The group said the technology is about 18 months out and works with existing projector heads.On the digital …

Japanese Art Gets Contemporary Twist With Panasonic

by Tom Allen

Panasonic has enabled one of the largest-ever water screen projections in the world, outside the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, earlier this month. 16 of Panasonic’s PT-DZ21K projectors were used to support a Kabuki …

Empire State Projection Shines a Light on Extinction

by Tom Allen

A light has been shone on the face of the world’s largest-ever extinction event – literally. 40 digital projectors were used recently to project video onto the Empire State Building in New York, for …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Projection| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 31

Researchers Develop 3D Holographic Projection

by Tom Allen

Two ‘fog screen’ prototype displays have been developed at the City University of Hong Kong. Using projectors to show images, the researchers (Bin Chen, Yaozhun Huang and Miu-Ling) Lam used projection mapping techniques on …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Large Display Monitor| Projection| Vol 22 - Issue 31