Panoramic installation and Matrox technology give Vanilli Club a modernist vibe

The Austrian club Vanilli modernizes its premises with a digital signage solution composed of 40 LCD displays including Matrox TripleHead2Go solution.

Provide the place with a modern atmosphere, where sound and color dynamics are the protagonists, was the goal set by the Vanilli club in Linz (Austria).

To give it that differential touch, A novel design has been created consisting of the installation of 42 LCD screens located in the areas of greatest concentration of customers that cover the entire premises side by side.

This digital signage project has been carried out by the Austrian provider of comprehensive technical solutions for the entertainment industry Kraftwerk Living Technologies, who was responsible for the installation of the screens and wiring, while the group 4youreye took care of all things hardware and analyzed various multi-monitor technologies until finally settling on the TripleHead2Go graphics expansion module from Matrox (GXM), an external multi-display magnification that connects directly to your computer's video output to control three displays.

External extensions

For this installation of 42 screens have been used 15 Matrox TripleHead2Go external extensions that have been connected to three workstations Apple Mac Pro, with MIDI synchronization. Every Mac Pro is equipped with three dual-link DVI graphics cards, allowing five TripleHead2Go units per team to use seamlessly 14 Displays from a single system.

To optimize the expansion desktop, 4Youreye crafted the creative content using the Modul8 real-time video mixing application GarageCUBE. By incorporating works made by the video group formed by local artists Lichttapete, 4Youreye provided a number of engaging video sequences, images and loops that are projected with a resolution of 800 X 480 per screen, and achieve a total panoramic resolution of 33.600 X 480.

“The atmosphere of the new club is simply exceptional”, comments Wolf Dieter Holzhey, owner of Club Vanilli. “Pleasant sounds and dynamic color reproduction create a perfect wave. The best thing is that we can instantly modify the environment for our customers, and we quickly went from an atmosphere with romantic light to a more dynamic and festive techno rhythm”.

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