Visitor attractions
Live venues embracing new AV tech
From immersive audio to new display solutions and all-encompassing AV experiences, visitor attraction and live venue operators seem keener than ever to embrace new...
Events & Production
Events & Production
Sphere holds record-breaking $22m UFC martial arts event
The UFC 306 at the RIYADH SEASON NOCHE fight evening at The Sphere, in Las Vegas, was the highest-grossing event at Sphere with a...
Events & Production
PLASA Show celebrates “best event for many years”
The PLASA Show, in the Grand Hall of Olympia London from 1-3 September, saw a 9.5 percent increase over 2023 figures on the Sunday,...
Events & Production
Engage Works to showcase immersive tech at Proptech show
Engage Works will showcase tech transforming the real-estate sector, including VR, interactive 3D, AI-powered photobooths, and interactive installations, at Proptech Connect Europe 2024, at...
Events & Production
IBC’s new AI Tech Zone promises to reveal “true value of AI”
The AI Tech Zone at IBC2024, in Amsterdam from 13-16 September, addresses the true value of AI tools through demos from a variety of...
Events & Production
Research says pro AV services to be worth $56.9bn by 2031
Allied Market Research report says entertainment segment will continue to lead, but the corporate segment should register the highest CAGR of 7.6 percent from 2022 to...
Events & Production
Europalco reinforces facilities with new 18,000sqm plot
Europalco, the largest provider of AV solutions for events and shows in Southern Europe, has doubled the capacity of its main warehouse from 4,000sqm...
Events & Production
Sphere announces Anyma concert for New Year’s Eve
Anyma, a multidisciplinary music and contemporary art project helmed by Matteo Milleri, puts on live shows combining visual installations, avant-garde sound engineering, and stage...
Visitor attractions
Lightroom to premiere ‘Inventing the Runway’ fashion history
The Inventing the Runway immersive exhibition exploring the history of the fashion runway premieres at London's Lightroom, on four-storey walls and 360-degree canvas, in October
Events & Production
Sphere announces winners of student design challenge
Sphere invited more than 100,000 Clark County-based students to create art for the Exosphere. Winners were announced on July 4, and their art will...
Events & Production
Sphere celebrates July 4 as 500 drones amplify the Exosphere
The Sphere Fourth of July Celebration, presented by Verizon, honoured America in a tribute to art, science, and wonder on world's largest LED screen
Visitor attractions
Sphere celebrates one-year anniversary with July 4 Exosphere show
Fourth of July also marks launch of two new Exosphere features – “XO Stream” presented by Verizon – a livestream of the Exosphere and...
Events & Production
The Eagles announce residency at the Sphere
One of the best-selling bands of all time will play eight shows at the Las Vegas venue, which boasts the world’s highest resolution LED...
Visitor attractions
Hockney watercolours displayed on London’s outdoor art benches
From June 17 to the end of August, 36 watercolours from David Hockney's 2004 "Midsummer: East Yorkshire" collection are reproduced on 1.4m wide panels, at...
Events & Production
Special report: Festivals in crisis?
Festival season is upon us, but, in the UK at least, there are already signs that the post-Covid boom is on the wane. Kevin...
Events & Production
DSS Europe 2024 attracts 450 visitors
81 speakers addressed this year’s summit theme ‘Connecting Signage: The Shift to Software-Defined Visual Solutions’, at Hilton Munich Airport, 22 and 23 May
Events & Production
Hilton Munich Airport hosts Digital Signage Summit Europe
Co-hosted by invidis and Integrated Systems Events, it will include keynotes, as well as panel discussions with C-level speakers and emerging industry disruptors
Events & Production
Sennheiser round table experts discuss recording in the wild
Expert panel give tips about recording techniques using Sennheiser’s MKH line of RF condenser microphones, including the new MKH 8030
Museums
d&b deploys Brompton tech in immersive hub at Science Museum
Immersive Technology Experience Centre (ITEC) brings together latest immersive audio, video, lighting, and media tech and opens at end of April
Events & Production
Panasonic gears up for central role at Paris Olympics and Paralympics
Deployments include large LED screens and 130 laser projectors, for the Olympics (Jul 26 to Aug 11), and Paralympic Games (Aug 28 to Sep...
Events & Production
IMSTA FESTA returns to London to celebrate music technology
IMSTA has invited A-list producers, engineers, and songwriters to deliver keynote presentations and master classes at the SAE Institute London on June 1
Events & Production
SMPTE unveils presentations for NAB Show 2024
From the Future of Cinema to RIS, SMPTE will showcase everything from emerging technologies to work in virtual production, at the show in Las...
Visitor attractions
Stories in Sound set to immerse music fans in story of Abbey Road studios
Led by authors of Recording the Beatles, Kevin Ryan and Brian Kehew, the experience will be brought to life through storytelling, imagery and performances
Events & Production
‘UK’s position as live music leader at stake’, according to The Guardian
Rising supply chain costs lead to nine festival postponing or cancelling for good so far in 2024, following a tricky 2023
Visitor attractions
TAIT announces new London base
Global creative engineering group for live experiences, is set to open a central London base in early 2024 at Tileyard London in the heart...
Visitor attractions
Theme of the month: Visitor attractions & live events
This month's Installation website takeover is now live!
Visitor attractions
The Park Playground harnesses AI in new VR escape room
The Break-in experience features customised AI-generated artwork in a fully-interactive heist-themed adventure
Visitor attractions
Additional dates for U2’s sellout Sphere residency announced
Sphere Entertainment Co and Live Nation has announced that an additional 11 dates have been added for January and February 2024
Visitor attractions
Lightroom announces Tom Hanks moon voyage immersive experience
The Moonwalkers intended to offer a unique perspective on humankind’s past and future voyages to the moon, with immersive projection and sound at Lightroom...
Visitor attractions
Report: Panasonic projectors make Hockney shine at Lightroom event
28 Panasonic projectors, disguise immersive storytelling tech and HOLOPLOT immersive sound do justice to the master's work, says Installation editor Rob Lane
Visitor attractions
Former ISE keynote lights up Sphere
Refik Anadol has become the first artist to employ the LED exterior of Sphere in Las Vegas for his 'AI data sculpture' Machine Hallucinations:...
Theme of the Month
Sound & vision for the ultimate stadium experiences
The stadia market has undergone a boom in the last ten years, with new venues being built or existing ones undergoing refurbishment. As Kevin...
Events & Production
Broadcast studios network brings MR event to UK festival
VERSA Studios has teamed up with Factory International to create KAGAMI, an immersive mixed-reality collaboration between Tin Drum and the late composer and artist Ryuichi...
Events & Production
UK events industry ‘back on its feet’
Sam Dimond, founder of events and AV installation business Spotlight Sound, said that the company's unprecedented recent growth and increase in demand is good...
Events & Production
Clear-Com to showcase intercom solutions for theatrical productions at ABTT
Company will showcase its award-winning Arcadia Central Station with HelixNet integration and lead a panel discussion on backstage and event communications
Events & Production
loop light invests in ten PIXERA four RS media servers
Marburg based lighting and video design company purchased ten AV Stumpfl PIXERA four RS media server systems
Visitor attractions
Curtain up: New venues hold the promise of a theatrical renaissance
Pro AV should anticipate an uplift from a host of new and refurbished theatre projects on the cards for 2023 and beyond, writes Ken...
Events & Production
Media Powerhouse & Systems Innovation join forces
New partnership designed to service the sales and installation market, in an international growth initiative
Events & Production
Universal Pixels boosts Robbie Williams tour with 25m video wall
25m wide x 8m high video wall comprising 270sqm of Leyard CLM10 displays fed by disguise GX2C media servers, with live footage interspersed and...
Museums
Shaping the future of the past through technology
New media technologies already play a part in how museums present information and design exhibits but, as Installation discovers, this is only set to...
Events & Production
At the heart of things: How audio is boosting live events
Live concerts, theatre, art installations and performance are back, and so are the audiences for them. And as Kevin Hilton discovers, audio is at...
Special report
Special report: Attracting visitors through innovation
The visitor attractions & live events sectors remain more susceptible to external factors than many others, but their remarkable current levels of innovation give...