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.
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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...
This is a really fascinating application of LED screen flooring. We’ve all seen applications of this type of deck technology on music stars’ tours (the Eras tour comes to mind), but I haven’t read too much about its use in sports. I imagine that the engineering related to the durability of the screens themselves is an interesting puzzle in itself - on, which by all accounts has looked to be solved incredibly successfully. The fact that deals are now being signed to have this type of flooring permanently installed in sports arenas marks a turning point (at least in my opinion) to how we view sports from a screen versus in the arena. Now, the technology will be able to be used in person to deliver the dynamic effects we have come to expect on screen while viewing sports. I’m really curious to see how the applications of this technology continue to evolve.
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