Posted on November 23rd, 2009 by Marcela.
Categories: new, Products, Technology, more, not 24 hours, Screens, rear projection, education, corporative, events, media.
E/T/C are specialists in high power projection both in slide and video format and provide support with image creation and programming.
With the PIGI and Onlyview systems E/T/C have been projecting on site during world class events such as the Asian Games, the Olympics and the Queen’s Golden Jubilee at Buckingham Palace.
ETC has been specialising in producing stunning, large format projections onto buildings, interesting spaces and structures since 1994. These images can be produced using either slide projection, video projection or a mix of the two.
ETC’s work has been seen around the world. We have supplied image projection solutions for a range of different clients from state occasions through theatre, rock and roll and corporate clients. A sample of the events that we have worked on would include the Doha Asian Games, The Edinburgh Military Tattoo, London’s Official New Years Eve events, The Queens Golden Jubilee, Ford, Liverpool Culture Company, Renault, the BBC and the MTV Europe Awards
There is literally no size barrier to the images we can produce. We keep adding projectors until we have achieved the size you require. For the Sultan of Oman, we created an image 400m wide by 200m tall onto a mountain. However we are just as at home creating a one or two projector backdrop to a Rock show, or a three or for projector Son et Lumière onto a stately home.
Video First for London
New Year’s Eve Projections
Video was used for the first time to project giant images onto the 353 ft high Shell Building on the South Bank of the River Thames for the Mayor of London’s 2008-09 New Year’s Eve celebrations.
E/T/C London created a projection concept and suggested that they harness the flexibility and power of video for the first time on this event, on which E/T/C has worked for producers Jack Morton Worldwide for the last 5 years. With LG Electronics coming onboard as a new sponsor, they really wanted to up the production values, making the show something extra special and more spectacular this year.
Says E/T/C’s Ross Ashton, “It was another milestone in giant video projection for E/T/C London, and probably the UK’s largest New Year video installation to date as well as a great opportunity for us to move the company forward.”
E/T/C’s Richard Porter designed the technical installation, which utilised 24 Christie S+20K projectors, all rigged vertically, and run in 12 overlaid pairs. These covered a 12 zone grid – 3 wide and 4 high – measuring 55 metres wide by 110 tall on the river facing fascia of the building.
At 2888 x 5184 pixels, this offered far higher resolution than HD.
The projectors were positioned 150 metres away from the Shell Tower in a 12 metre tall purpose built structure, together with a complex E/T/C OnlyView® control system that was set up in an adjacent cabin, and operated by Richard Porter for the show.
The 30 minute looped show was programmed by Porter, assisted by Karen Monid, onto 18 OnlyView® media servers. Sixteen servers were used for visuals, while two ran a bespoke soundtrack including sponsors messages which were then broadcast to the public via a Delta Sound PA system.
Ross Ashton collaborated closely with Jack Morton’s Kate MacKay on the creation of the artwork.
The image files involved were massive, and the handling of this aspect alone required E/T/C London’s detailed expertise. BBH created the LG branding and a series of celebrity ‘talking heads’ with New Year greetings, featuring the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, Dame Helen Mirren and others.
Another challenge was the installation of a preview monitor system, set up to show the client detailed and accurate show visualizations during the set up and programming period. E/T/C’s Paul Highfield came up with a very cost-effective video wall solution for this, using Dexion racking and bit of ingenuity!
The get-in commenced on the 27th December, with E/T/C engineers Robin Darraux, Patrice Lefevre and Glenn Jenkins. Jack Morton’s project manager was Jim Donald.
Projections kicked off at 8p.m. on New Year’s Eve as up to 400,000 revellers gathered in central London to await the rollover moment into 2009. A cool countdown clock comprising a burning fuse that snaked around the building as the minute-to-midnight moment approached was visualized by Ashton and produced in After Effects by Porter.
Posted on September 4th, 2009 by Marcela.
Categories: Technology, Screens, 3 d, education.
BSkyB to launch Europe’s first 3D TV channel next year
Service will use standard Sky+ HD set-top boxes but will require new ‘3D ready’ television set and special glasses
BSkyB filiming the English National Ballet in 3D. The ballet was filmed using high-definition 3D cameras, which use two lenses to record separate footage for each eye. Viewers then wear special polarising glasses which give the impression the picture is in three dimensions. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images
BSkyB is to launch Europe’s first 3D TV channel offering movies, entertainment and sports programming in the UK next year.
The satellite broadcaster, which recently said that 3D TV could be a reality within several years, has stepped up its roll-out programme after a major boost in the numbers subscribers to its Sky+ HD set-top boxes, which are capable of broadcasting 3D services.
BSkyB, which has doubled the number of customers with Sky+ HD boxes in the last year to 1.31m, said that it will launch a channel offering 3D movies, entertainment and sport.
However, to watch 3D programming customers will also require a new “3D ready” TV set, which are expected to be on sale in the UK next year, and special glasses.
At a recent demonstration BSkyB used a Hyundai TV which retails at £2,500, although the broadcaster hopes that ultimately 3D TV sets will not cost much more than a standard HD plasma screen.
BSkyB also confirmed today that it will launch a “pull” video-on-demand service using the broadband capability in Sky+ HD boxes. Until now Sky has only been able to offer what is termed “push” VoD services – such as the Sky Anytime service – and the Sky+ personal video recorder.
The new “pull” service aims to broaden consumer choice by allowing programmes to be watched on-demand in the way other services, such as on cable operator Virgin Media’s TV plartform, offer extensive libraries of shows.
“3D is a genuinely ’seeing is believing’ experience [and] next year we will make our HD boxes work even harder for customers by launching Europe’s first 3D TV channel,” said Brian Sullivan, the managing director of Sky’s customer group. “[We are also] introducing a comprehensive video-on-demand service to complement Sky+ and the current Sky Anytime service.”
Posted on May 25th, 2009 by Marcela.
Categories: new, useful technology, Screens, education, media.
GestureTek’s award-winning Illuminate Multi-Touch Table is a user-friendly surface computing technology offered in nearly any shape or size to suit any requirement. The turnkey multi-touch screen display stands 36″ high, with a 50″ gesture-controlled screen, powerful multi-touch computer, projector, camera and speakers. Control is via a multi-point or multi-touch interface. GestureTek’s full library of GestureFX special effects applications can be included in the multi-touch display table.
Want something really unique? Let multi-touch technology transform your ordinary bar, counter, wall or retail window into an interactive multi-touch computing surface. GestureTek’s multi-touch technology lets people use hand and finger gestures to interact with multi-media content, access corporate information, play games, create special effects, manipulate art and photographs, even view advertising, in a truly unique and compelling way.
Using patented, ‘Minority-Report’-style hand tracking and gesture recognition sofware that has been proven in commercial use for more than three years, GestureTek is a pioneer in delivering custom interactive multitouchtables and surface computer displays. Installations have included a dynamic interactive map and way-finding system for Samsung’s retail showroom in New York’s Time Warner building, the world’s largest interactive multi-touch surface computing table in Melbourne’s Eureka Tower, a space-age multi-touch interactive table game for NASA and an engaging entertainment-style interactive entertainment table for patrons of Alice Fazooli’s restaurant in Toronto.
GestureTek’s multi-touch technology has limitless applications for retail stores, stadiums, corporate lobbies and foyers, corporate board rooms, showrooms, presentation centers, nightclubs, restaurants, hotels, tourist attractions, tradeshows, interactive advertising, and other public spaces where interactive kiosk-style multimedia is desired. We’ve even worked with the military to integrate our exciting technology into their facilities.
Posted on February 14th, 2007 by eliseo.
Categories: Technology, Screens, education.
Software application allows teachers to view and interact with Notebook files on all hardware platforms
SMART Technologies Inc. announces Notebook™ interactive viewer, a cross-platform application that allows users to view, share and interact with content in files created within Notebook collaborative learning software, the main whiteboarding application within SMART Board™ software. The full version of Notebook software is widely used by educators to create and modify interactive lessons and to manage digital resources. Available for Windows®, Mac OS and Linux® operating systems, Notebook interactive viewer ensures that if teachers change classrooms or schools, they still have access to their Notebook files, regardless of the hardware platform or brand of interactive whiteboard being used in their new location. Third-party content created with Notebook software can be accessed and used in the same manner.
