A videowall built with MicroTiles is used by Stanford University as an educational tool

RP Visuals has designed a videowall of 439 square meters with Christie MicroTiles to replace the old projection system that Stanford University had in Wallenberg Hall.

Stanford University (California) has used MicroTiles technology from Christie to design a videowall of 439 square meters that is used as a learning tool. RP Visuals It has been the company in charge of designing the framework of this videowall composed of 32 MicroTiles of width by 6 high and that has been installed two meters above the ground in one of the classrooms of the Wallenberg Hall, occupying almost the entire wall. This room is used to teach different subjects of journalism and social sciences, as well as other specific events.

The classrooms of Wallenberg Hall are used by Stanford University as spaces to experiment with new ways of teaching and learning in their subject areas. The staff of the Wallenberg, Both teachers and technicians, They work closely with faculty to create new activities and provide tools to support learning delivered at the university.

Opened in 2002, the Wallenberg Foundation decided it was time to upgrade the display infrastructure of this building and replace the old projectors with Christie MicroTiles technology. According to Bob Smith, Director of Technology Services de la Office of the Registrar, "The front row was often empty given the poor visibility and if all the seats were occupied it was the attendees themselves who cast shadows on the screen". This is not the first time that this educational center makes use of Christie MicroTiles, Since two years ago he used them for the video screen installed in the visitor center.

For the large videowall of the Wallenberg Hall room required a system that offered a high resolution and allowed to visualize multiple presentations that run simultaneously in a wide variety of configurations.

"MicroTiles allow people to feel closer to the screen., that we can flexibly adjust visual rhetoric so that the most relevant content is enlarged and the less critical ones are reduced, moving the images through different areas of the screen according to the needs of the moment", comments Bob Smith.

With a much wider palette than conventional LCDs, Christie MicroTiles shows clean and realistic colors. Its modular display technology allows digital configurations in almost any shape and size.

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