CMU School of Drama


Wednesday, October 02, 2024

Absen partnership delivers basketball cup's LED sport floor

www.avinteractive.com: German-based sports floor solution specialists ASB GlassFloor installed a full-size digital LED glass floor that would display not only the court lines, but also imagery and videos, at the WiZink Center, the home arena of Real Madrid’s basketball team.

1 comment:

Sara said...

This is so exciting! I saw this and immediately thought of all the possibilities for theater and live entertainment. If they made an LED floor, could we make LED walls, ceilings, shapes? Something I think should really be implemented into theater (if only the industry had more money....) is IMAX screens! When I visited Harry Potter World at Universal, I went on this ride that incorporated miniature IMAX screens so you could seamlessly transition from 'flying' on a broom to physical dioramas/sets. I would LOVE to see a giant IMAX screen flown in to a theater so the audience could feel like they were flying. However, IMAX screens are not only expensive on their own, but creating footage in the IMAX format, or converting MP4s to IMAX is incredibly time consuming and expensive. What if they could use a giant LED curved screen instead of IMAX? I wonder which would end up being more expensive... I mostly want to see this in a theater so that my favorite film franchise, How To Train Your Dragon, could be faithfully adapted to the stage. People have tried, but it will never be the same as the movies without the flying scenes. There has got to be so much creative stuff you can do with VMD. I personally have a ton of ideas, they just all seem very expensive...