London’s first permanent digital immersive arts experience, Frameless, has deployed 19 HIVE Player_3 4K and 8K media players. Integrator Creative Technology opted for the HIVE kit Digital to power the digital interpretations of 40 masterpieces by 28 artists including Klimt, Monet, Rembrandt and van Gogh. The right result hinged on…
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Cameo fixtures put Lara Croft wannabes under the spotlight
An adrenaline-fuelled immersive experience in London is being brought to life by Cameo spotlights. Tomb Raider: The LIVE Experience involves teams of eight people moving through single and multi-level areas on a 30,000 sq m course, in search of an artefact. In addition to the lavishly designed sets, actors contribute…
Limitless AI immersive show tests limits of media servers
An army of Hippotizer media servers are feeding vast amounts of visual data to 63 HD projectors inside ArtsDistrict Brooklyn’s Limitless AI immersive experience, filling the 1,000 sq m gallery space with a 360° video. Created by Istanbul-based Ouchhh Studio, Limitless AI transports audiences into a world of culture, science…
Walmart’s Sam Walton returns to work as museum hologram
StoryFile and Proto have teamed up to create a life-sized hologram of Walmart founder Sam Walton that can move and answer people's questions. Walmart’s Heritage Group unveiled the hologram of Walton, who died in 1992, at the Southeastern Museums Conference in Bentonville, Arkansas. When asked what he would tell shoppers…
Sir David Attenborough to voice 360° BBC Earth Experience
Leading nature broadcaster Sir David Attenborough is to provide bespoke narration for an immersive BBC Earth Experience. The 1,600 sq m projection art experience, which will open in March in London, will use footage from the Seven Worlds One Planet TV series. "From fireflies putting on a spectacular light show…
Canon PTZ cameras showcase the beauty of biodiversity
Five years ago, the Naturalis Biodiversity Centre in Leiden in the Netherlands undertook a museum rebuild and one of their consultants proposed several Canon projectors for use throughout different galleries. The new HDBaseT projectors were supplied by Ata Tech, with Canon being the preferred digital imaging supplier. When the museum…
Lisbon earthquake experience wins THEA attractions award
Painting with Light has developed and installed projection mapping, creative lighting design and other AV technologies to bring the QUAKE Experience alive in Lisbon. The 90-minute walk-through experience is located in the QUAKE Lisbon Earthquake Centre, a new building in the Belém area in Lisbon. During eleven timed and show-controlled…
Art museum reopens with a ‘bold focus’ on digital displays
Originally opened by the late Queen in 1983, Glasgow’s celebrated Burrell Collection museum was recently reopened by King Charles in one of his first engagements as monarch, following a six-year long, £68m refurbishment. With a bold focus on digital presence and interpretation, LCD screens from Leyard Europe were paramount in…
Genelec fortifies World of Wine with immersive sound
More than 400 Genelec loudspeakers have been installed at the World of Wine (WOW) cultural district in Porto to deliver an immersive soundscape for visitors. WOW is home to a cluster of museums, restaurants and bars that form an immersive journey through the region’s port production heritage. Local Genelec distributor…
EM Acoustics delivers sound at UK-first digital art gallery
Billed as London’s first permanent immersive digital arts experience, Frameless opened its doors in October. Housed in a 2,800sq m space that was formerly a cinema, it offers visitors a multi-sensory and multi-dimensional way in which to engage with some of history’s most iconic works of art. Frameless utilises more…