Training
Green Hippo launches Hippotizer training courses in UK
Pixel Academy, based at company's R&D Innovation Centre near London Heathrow, is working towards AVIXA CTS RU accreditation and opens its first course on...
media servers
Virtual production
Disguise opens 8,000sqft Atlanta experience centre
New facility in state of Georgia, US, includes virtual production LED stage powered by Studio Pro and GX 3+ media servers, alongside training provision...
People
tvONE names India and Middle East sales manager
US manufacturer of video processors, signal distribution technology and media servers names Amit Singh as regional sales manager for both territories
AVoIP
HIVE adds Dante audio-over-IP to media servers
Integration allows company's Beeblade units to transmit up to 16 channels of high-quality audio over Ethernet, supporting immersive, networked AV experiences
Case Studies
Green Hippo servers create visual effects for hip-hop duo’s show
Hippotizer media servers deployed to process and enhance live camera feeds on large screens at Lilas ir Innomine’s comeback concert in Vilnius, Lithuania
Case Studies
BrightSign powers Arctic Circle museum adventure
Company’s HD5 and XC2055 media players are at core of interactive exhibits at new Svalbard Museum in Longyearbyen, Norway, which explores the Arctic’s past,...
Case Studies
Green Hippo drives high-res LED content at Future Stores London
Seven of the company's Hippotizer Boreal+ MK2 media servers power 153m pixels of content across synchronised LED surfaces at the Oxford Street immersive retail...
Case Studies
HIVE powers Natural History Museum’s David Attenborough immersive experience
Company's media servers power 8K visuals and precise synchronisation – working in tandem with Epson projectors and EM Acoustics speakers – in an exhibition...
Case Studies
Green Hippo media servers power LED walls for Lana del Rey’s UK tour
LED walls were built using ROE BQ6.2 panels, all driven by Green Hippo's Hippotizer media servers, for US singer's five-date summer tour
Case Studies
Absen Venus LED tech delivers a wonder wall for Oasis reunion
Universal Pixels deployed 1,100sqm of Absen Venus 4.8mm LED displays, driven by Brompton media servers and Disguise software, to create huge upstage wall for...
Acquisitions
German entrepreneurs to acquire Christie Pandoras Box
Christie Digital Systems Germany has entered into a "letter of intent" to sell the suite of pro AV software and hardware tools to a...
Case Studies
HIVE media servers power Arcadia’s Dragonfly at Glastonbury Festival
Manufacturer's new Beeblade Nexus media engines, and suite of software tools, handled the diverse demands of the complex Dragonfly installation, designed by art collective...
Case Studies
PIXERA servers help German rapper Luciano to “seduce” audiences on major tour
It can now be revealed that two AV Stumpfl's PIXERA four servers, and two PIXERA control servers, were deployed for the 11 concerts across...
Projection
Modulo Pi announces first certified trainers in the Middle East
Dubai-based illumin8studios’s Steve Critchley and Peter Winter completed a week-long training programme at Modulo Pi’s headquarters in France
Distribution
Modulo Pi appoints MayCo as distributor for US market
MayCo, LLC will distribute Modulo Pi's entire range of media server solutions, based on the Modulo Player and Modulo Kinetic systems, across the US
Case Studies
Epson and Modulo Pi power first grand opera in Arabic language
Epson video projectors and Modulo Pi's Kinetic media servers were used to stage Zarqa Al Yamama, the first opera produced in Saudi Arabia, at...
Distribution
publitec completes AV Stumpfl range for German market
publitec, part of the Germany-based NicLean Family, has invested in AV Stumpfl's portfolio of PIXERA media servers
Broadcast
Brompton Technology celebrates fifth anniversary of its Shenzhen Office
Opening of the Shenzhen office in March 2019 strategically positioning the company in High-Tech Industrial Park, Nanshan, was prompted by customer demand and the...
Case Studies
AV Stumpfl PIXERA powers virtual production for Oscar-nominated Poor Things
Huge virtual production stage comprised 600m² (60m × 10m) of INFiLED INTI 2.6mm LED wall, with content rendered in 4K (1,536px × 3,840px output...
Case Studies
Leyard Europe’s LED ‘Wall of Wonder’ helps to inform and inspire life scientists
New educational exhibition at the headquarters of the European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL), Europe’s flagship laboratory for research into life sciences, features a 1.9...
Case Studies
Oklahoma! harnesses disguise to deliver an unforgettable West End performance
Production team needed to project video onto the entire stage and set, even into the balconies with restricted sightlines. The challenge was to make...
People
Smode Tech grows team with two new hires
Damien Gaillard and Jean-François Ballanger will bring fresh perspective to Smode Tech to uphold its commitment to deliver great software solutions and customer service
Distribution
Smode Tech partners with Creative Alchemy in the UK for SMODE
Smode Tech will grow its presence in the UK's world-leading live entertainment market in partnership with Creative Alchemy
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
Case Studies
PIXERA provides production power for Mandela musical
PIXERA’s timeline-based programming functionalities, coupled with AV Stumpfl’s dedicated support, were key to delivering the London show
Broadcast
One FM Starnight shines with PIXERA media servers
Swiss based REC Tec AG deployed 2x AV Stumpfl PIXERA two quad media servers with live input cards for the One FM Starnight in Geneva
Case Studies
Avolites visual control systems light up Glastonbury 2022
The new Diamond 9 flagship console, launched in January 2021, makes its Glastonbury debut, whilst AI Q3 media servers power areas in The Common
Projection
VIOSO projection tech creates life-size mapping solution for architects & their clients
German restaurateur and events planner Plan Live is giving its clients' customers a true-to-scale glimpse of the home of their dreams with an innovative...
Displays & Signage
PIXERA makes huge splash at HK’s first mega indoor wave pool
Two Quad 4K media server delivers live playbacks to a huge 20m x 3.8m Optizvision LED display at the all-weather Water World Ocean Park,...
Immersive tech
disguise helped deliver most technically ambitious Eurovision
Faber Audiovisuals used company's media servers to power 55 scenes on LED wall
Displays & Signage
Analog Way Picturall Pro Media server powers new St Louis Aquarium
Award-winning Entrance Experience is displayed on custom seamless 2.7 mm LED display building blocks. Pro Media server's 8TB performance-plus hard drives play back the...
Technology
disguise launches media servers for ‘new-era’ live production
vx 1 and vx 2 machines help facilitate "accessible for all" virtual production
Case Studies
Painting with Light brings festive walkthrough to Bruges
Painting with Light (PWL) has created a 2km walkthrough lighting and visual ‘experience’ in the centre of Bruges for the festive ‘Wintergloed’ (Winter Glow)...
Case Studies
The GEOMAR Marine institute expands with new projection dome
The world-leading marine research institute has continued its expansion with the installation of a new projection dome, known as ARENA2, at its east shore...
Case Studies
Hong Kong Science Museum exhibition digitises Silk Road map
Running from 7th December 2018 to 20th February 2019, this exhibition is a complex projection interpretation of the Landscape Map of the Silk Road,...
Case Studies
National Museum of Qatar features world’s largest permanent video install
London-based visual technologists, RES, started work on this project in 2014 with the result said to be the world's biggest permanent video installation
Case Studies
Lyon light festival videomapping showcases colour pigments and flowers
New PIXERA media server helps create award-winning projection mapping show at prestigious city light festival
Case Studies
MGM Cotai Casino and Resort opens with spectacular ‘sensory experience’
Multiple stakeholders came together to realise the MGM Cotai Integrated Resort’s Spectacle ‘sensory experience’. Rob Lane discovers how the various contributors worked to create...
Business
Manchester firm expands with £250K new tech investment
A city centre event production company has invested almost £250,000 in new technology as part of continued expansion plans.
Technology
InfoComm 2018: Dataton demonstrates real-time motion tracking and new SDI server model
The company is showing projection mapping onto a revolving complex-shaped structure
Case Studies
Digital art on a monumental scale at Paris’s Atelier des Lumières
Paris's first digital art centre uses 130 projectors and 35 media servers to help create an immersive experience around the work of painter Gustav...
Case Studies
Solutions: experience delivery at Postal Museum
Immersive projection is playing an important role in a museum that tells the story of a little-known underground railway used by the Royal Mail....