Brackley in West Northamptonshire is the home to the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team, with a technology centre covering an area of 60,000 square metres facilitating the design, development, manufacturing, assembly and operation of Championship-winning Formula One cars. In March 2021, the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team completed…
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics Opening Ceremony has taken place in a stadium equipped with more than 600 Panasonic digital signage screens, in what was said to be the largest project of its kind at the date of completion, but with fewer than 1,000 attendees due to strict Covid-19 social distancing…
A drone light show featuring 1,824 Intel Premium Drones is just the tip of the iceberg of Intel's contribution to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, with other wide-ranging initiatives including 3D athlete tracking, immersive replays featuring 360° video, enhanced 5G capabilities, venue and transport occupancy data gathering, and VR training…
The All-England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) has installed a fixed signal routing and communications network based on Riedel's MediorNet real-time signal transport and processing technology, and Artist digital matrix intercom mainframe. Relying on Riedel solutions for over a decade, the AELTC has steadily expanded its Riedel infrastructure, with…
Samsung Electronics America and the SoFi Stadium which serves two NFL teams based in Los Angeles have announced that they are going to call an enormous centre-hung videoboard in the middle of the stadium The Infinity Screen by Samsung. The screen features the most LEDs ever used in a sports…
Panasonic AV technology is helping German javelin thrower Thomas Röhler prepare for this year's Olympic Games in Japan, as the combined 2016 Olympic champion and 2018 European champion works towards his second Olympic Gold. Panasonic’s PT-MZ16KL laser projector is simulating the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo to train visual orientation in…
Engineering consultancy Buro Happold has acquired leading acoustics and AV consultancy Vanguardia Limited, and its subsidiary Crowd Dynamics International. Buro Happold and Vanguardia have worked together on sports and entertainment projects for more than two decades, on some of the finest venue and arena projects across the world including Tottenham…
Ascot Racecourse, home of world-renowned Royal Ascot, is founded on a bedrock of tradition more than 300 years in the making. Racing first took place in 1711 at the behest of Queen Anne and Ascot Racecourse is approximately six miles from Windsor Castle. In a normal year, Ascot Racecourse is…
A sports and entertainment arena in Phoenix, Arizona has been outfitted with 650 square metres (7,000 square feet) of LED displays, with Christie's Spyder X80 multi-windowing processors driving content aimed at fans as they enter the building. The 29-year-old Phoenix Suns venue, home to an NBA basketball team of the…
Westville Music Bowl is formerly the CT Tennis Center on the Yale University campus in New Haven. In normal times, it can seat up to 10,000 but with CDC guidelines, it currently hosts 4,000 attendees. Since Westville Music Bowl is completely outdoors, the venue has been able to entertain a…
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