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Friday, September 06, 2024
Hippotizer Makes Princess Cruises' Ambitious AV Smooth Sailing
Live Design Online: Princess Cruises’ brand new Sun Princess ship set sail on its maiden voyage in mid-2024 with a totally re-imagined AV system. Multiple LED walls are installed throughout the vessel, all of which are driven by Hippotizer Media Servers.
3 comments:
Marion Mongello
said...
This ship looks so beautiful. This high-tech high seas Adventure is absolutely captivating and is somewhere I would love to visit someday. my dad recently went on the maiden voyage of this ship and, although not mention the glory of its LED amenities, he did say it was very nice and quite high-tech. a 4300-person capacity is a lot of people for a floating metal can in the middle of the ocean. “This new ship is different from other AV systems as there was a drive to add large inviting spaces, without bulky obstruction items such as projectors and screens that would break the clean line of venue design,” This concept is really interesting and is something I wish the Disney ships would consider, as they're more recent additions have not as advanced technical elements. I wonder what other spaces Hippotizer has engineered that I didn’t know.
This seems like a really neat system, and the implementation is really well done. While I had never heard of Hippotizer before, it’s something I will be looking into further. Having a media server that has the infrastructure to support this level of AV system is fascinating and incredible when you really stop and think about the needs that this ship has as a whole. To have this many LED screens running 24/7 on a boat is technology that we wouldn’t even have dreamed of even relatively recently, and to see it in action on a flagship boat is really cool. I would love to just be able to walk around the spaces and see how these screens are incorporated into the architecture of the space and see if it’s as seamless as it looks in the photographs. I have so many questions about the logistics of this project and, I think, another research rabbit hole to dive into.
I love reading articles like this because they remind me of how similar live entertainment is across different aspects of the industry and how the technology we use and skills we learn in theater are applicable to so many other career paths than just straight theater. The same technology that we use to put on a play (albeit at a much higher scale and probably with a much larger budget) is what is being used to create these amazing interactive displays that are used for live entertainment, art installations, corporate events, advertising, and so much more. What we learn and get used to working with here at CMU prepares us to go out into the real world and turn those skills into the ability to work on projects like these with this kind of technology. I hope that one day I get the chance to work with systems that are as high-tech as these.
3 comments:
This ship looks so beautiful. This high-tech high seas Adventure is absolutely captivating and is somewhere I would love to visit someday. my dad recently went on the maiden voyage of this ship and, although not mention the glory of its LED amenities, he did say it was very nice and quite high-tech. a 4300-person capacity is a lot of people for a floating metal can in the middle of the ocean. “This new ship is different from other AV systems as there was a drive to add large inviting spaces, without bulky obstruction items such as projectors and screens that would break the clean line of venue design,” This concept is really interesting and is something I wish the Disney ships would consider, as they're more recent additions have not as advanced technical elements. I wonder what other spaces Hippotizer has engineered that I didn’t know.
This seems like a really neat system, and the implementation is really well done. While I had never heard of Hippotizer before, it’s something I will be looking into further. Having a media server that has the infrastructure to support this level of AV system is fascinating and incredible when you really stop and think about the needs that this ship has as a whole. To have this many LED screens running 24/7 on a boat is technology that we wouldn’t even have dreamed of even relatively recently, and to see it in action on a flagship boat is really cool. I would love to just be able to walk around the spaces and see how these screens are incorporated into the architecture of the space and see if it’s as seamless as it looks in the photographs. I have so many questions about the logistics of this project and, I think, another research rabbit hole to dive into.
I love reading articles like this because they remind me of how similar live entertainment is across different aspects of the industry and how the technology we use and skills we learn in theater are applicable to so many other career paths than just straight theater. The same technology that we use to put on a play (albeit at a much higher scale and probably with a much larger budget) is what is being used to create these amazing interactive displays that are used for live entertainment, art installations, corporate events, advertising, and so much more. What we learn and get used to working with here at CMU prepares us to go out into the real world and turn those skills into the ability to work on projects like these with this kind of technology. I hope that one day I get the chance to work with systems that are as high-tech as these.
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