iPad Controls Hologram Performance
The Gaya Theatre in Seoul, South Korea, recently hosted an amazing hologram performance called VR BreakOut.Zenex Wave, a Korean design and production company, used Medialon Manager Show and Media Control Software with an iPad to provide an audience with a 3D experience on stage. The performance is a musical and danced story about prisoners who lead a routine life, isolated from the outside world, and dream of freedom through a mysterious Bi-guep (a book with supernatural power), which happens to fall from the sky.
In VR BreakOut, Zenex Wave applies hologram technology to a commercial stage for the first time in Korea, realizing virtual reality on the stage by combining technologies like 3D projection mapping, interactive sound, and state-of-the-art show control. While beat box sound is produced by Gundog, a hologram car, in the background, flies or rotates in the sky in real time. For hologram, 3D projection mapping, and interactive sound, Zenex Wave used various equipment and systems, such as Dataton Watchout media players and five video projectors fit with shutters to blocks light from the projectors.
Every aspect of the show, including audio, video, and lighting, is controlled from an iPad’s video console, which runs Medialon Manager Show software. A single operator is able to control all the systems effectively from a single video console. The video cue menu and the projector control menu were automatically converted according to the rotation of the iPad, allowing a more efficient and easier control panel.
For the hologram, videos come from two projectors, which reflect on a mat screen on the floor and are then projected on a foil screen (optical film) mounted at a 45 degree angle. Audience were able to see the VR BreakOut show during a three-month theatrical performance at the Gaya Theater.
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Posted by Bruce at 13 Feb 2012 
Categories: Entertainment Engineering
Tags: iPad hologram The Gaya Theatre VR BreakOut Zenex Wave design Media Control Software 3D audio video lighting
Categories: Entertainment Engineering
Tags: iPad hologram The Gaya Theatre VR BreakOut Zenex Wave design Media Control Software 3D audio video lighting
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