Projection Connection News

ORLANDO –– DistribuTech, a corporate event taking place Feb. 9-11 alongside the Electric Light & Power Executive Conference and Utility Products Exposition at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, will be getting a bit of extra visual dazzle from Christie.

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA – Rockwell Collins today announced Jan. 27 that it will acquire the assets of Christie’s Matrix series projector product lines. The transaction is intended to give military customers a more comprehensive partner for all their current and future simulation and training projector needs. Pictured here is the Christie Matrix StIM WQ.

LONDON – Comedian Kevin Hart’s ‘What Now’ world tour, taking place at major venues including London’s O2 and Wembley Arena, is getting a visual assist from Blackmagic Design’s Studio Camera 4K and ATEM 1 M/E Production Studio 4K.  SXS Events is supporting the tour’s video needs with LED screens, I-Mag projectors, PPU and crew.

AMSTERDAM – eyevis will feature a new kind of display at ISE: the transparent EYE-TOLED-5500. This new LED display, measuring 55 inches (diagonal), is designed to appear to be transparent whenever black image content is shown but to also dazzle the eye with active, luminous pixels with brilliant colors.

NEW YORK — Adele Live in New York City, a one-night-only show at Radio City Music Hall, aired on NBC Dec. 14, 2015. DWP Live provided a projection-mapping visual assist for the broadcast, which garnered more than 11 million viewers. DWP Live used an arsenal of gear on short order for mapped surfaces that included four ceiling arches, the proscenium and the stage of Radio City Music Hall.

BIRMINGHAM, AL — For the annual Christmas production at Church of the Highlands, which has grown to 30,000 members since it was founded in 2001, Brian Worster and Scott Waldrep create an impressive visual backdrop using 96 FLEXLite 3.9mm LED video tiles from PixelFlex. The panels were configured into five different video displays.

LAS VEGAS – Westgate Resorts teamed with RP Visual Solutions (RPV) and Christie to build a super-sized LED Video wall inside the Westgate Superbook at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino. Working with HB Communications, RPV and Christie created a curved array measuring 20 by 220 feet (HxW). It makes use of 1,640 2.5 millimeter Christie Velvet LED tiles and more than 65 million pixels.

MIAMI – For the Life in Color “Kingdom” tour, featuring Jack U, Steve Aoki, Zeds Dead, Flosstradamus, Big Sean and other EDM artists, a large lion-head set element has eyes animated with Chauvet Professional video panels. The festival tour included a show at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Jan. 16. Shows are also set for Kalamazoo, MI on Feb. 12 and Denver, CO Feb. 20.

ATLANTA— At this year’s annual Passion gathering of Christian college students, 40,000 young people ages 18 to 25 filled three arenas to worship, pray and hear inspirational speakers. This three-day conference, held January 2-4, 2016, featured a multimedia extravaganza managed through TNDV’s mobile production infrastructure, including and big screen displays of video, lyrics and scripture delivered from Renewed Vision’s ProPresenter 6 media presentation software.

AMSTERDAM – d3 Technologies will be showcasing its full product range including the latest software release, r12, at ISE 2016, to be held Feb. 9-12 at the Amsterdam RAI Convention Center, February 9-12, 2016. d3 Technologies will be exhibiting at stand 8-H238. 

LONDON– Behind the scenes at NBC’s The Wiz Live, an LED back wall formed the scenic backdrop; three LED portals opened and closed and an extensive amount of automated scenery tracked in and out. d3 Technologies also played a key role in bringing Dorothy’s journey to Oz to life for a new generation of viewers.

NASHVILLE – For the Parthenon in Nashville’s Centennial Park, a full-scale copy of the original Parthenon in Athens, DWP Live helped approximate the colors that were originally used for the original structure some 2,500 years ago. The columns were bathed in the hues for a Japanese TV program. DWP Live used four Barco HDF­W30 projectors, three Pandoras Box media servers and two outputs to map the building.