Technology
Visitor attractions: Themed experiences
For this feature we previously looked at how visitor attractions are approaching the increasingly difficult task of amazing its guests as well as looking...
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Technology
Visitor attractions: alternate reality
Previously we considered how it is getting increasingly difficult to amaze people at visitor attractions. Here Ian McMurray looks at how to create an...
Technology
Visitor attractions: personalisation vs. shared experiences
If each of us – rightly – believes that we’re different, that will increasingly have an impact on what we buy – and what...
Technology
Alcorn McBride develops AR captioning solution
Alcorn McBride has introduced a solution that delivers Augmented Reality captions to guests with special needs who are attending parades or experiencing dark ride...
Case Studies
Alcorn McBride delivers video playback at prohibition museum
The newly opened American Prohibition Museum in Savannah, Georgia includes 13 immersive galleries over two floors with all video playback throughout the museum handled...
Business
Latest industry appointments – September and October
CODA Audio has appointed David Webster to the position of director of global marketing. ‘Webby’, as he is known throughout the industry, spent many...
Case Studies
‘Canon’ multimedia exhibition charts Dutch history
Rapenburg Plaza of Amsterdam has implemented the lighting, show control and AV technologies for the ‘Canon of The Netherlands’, a new exhibition at the...
ISE Daily
RidePlayer makes European debut
Making its European debut is Alcorn McBride’s RidePlayer, an on-board audio and control solution for themed entertainment applications. RidePlayer is said to offer a...
Case Studies
Theme parks: utilising AV technology
Theme parks’ need to maintain customer interest over repeat visits means that they have traditionally maintained notably cutting-edge technological infrastructures. As David Davies reports,...
Case Studies
Alcorn McBride show control updates interactive museum exhibits
Alcorn McBride audio, video and show control equipment has been selected to replace the aging systems at Mill City Museum and the Minnesota History...
ISE Daily
Alcorn McBride introduces Harkless
About to celebrate 30 years in business, Alcorn McBride − which provides the AV technology behind many of the world’s most prestigious theme parks...
AV-IT
Alcorn McBride prefaces ISE with two product launches
Alcorn McBride has announced the launch of its VPage Dante PA station and the official release of WinScript Live 4.0 show control software. VPage provides...
Case Studies
Alcorn McBride provides show control for Orlando Eye observation wheel
The Orlando Eye observation wheel has recently opened as part of the I-Drive 360 dining and entertainment destination with Alcorn McBride show control and...
Case Studies
Museums and visitor attractions: new technologies
The global market for museums and visitor centres is buoyant and the demand for creative content and new technologies to entice and engage is...
Case Studies
Control panels: eight solutions to improve customisation
Advances in control panel technology have improved the level of customisation available to installers as well as assisting the move towards more self-contained interfaces....
Case Studies
Alcorn McBride controls Noginsk Museum’s multimedia WWI exhibit
The Noginsk Museum, Moscow has chosen to commemorate the start of World War I with a multimedia exhibition, called “Breakthrough”, featuring a 360° projection...
Case Studies
Electrosonic provides AV design for Korean interactive tour
Electrosonic has provided the AV design for the Story Garden at the AmorePacific Beautiful Life Center in South Korea.
Case Studies
Media Matrix chooses Alcorn McBride players for museum installs
Media Matrix has completed two new museum installations with the support of audio and video equipment from Alcorn McBride. The installations took place at...
Case Studies
Show control: combining resources
The show control industry inevitably benefits from – and is sometimes challenged by – developments in the wider audiovisual industry, as Fredrik Svahnberg, general...
Case Studies
Show control: what drives innovation?
Theme parks, visitor attractions, museums and so on are in the business of creating extraordinary experiences – and technology has a role in delivering...