The Nemo Room: immersive audiovisual experience on luxury yachts with IMAX screen

Yacht Intelligence, provider of AV solutions and audio control for luxury yachts, has joined forces with IMAX Corporation and the designer of this type of boat, Ken Frivokh, to create an innovative cinematic visual experience, Theatre and television on board, called The Nemo Room, with transmission of images from outside via CCTV.

The Nemo Room is an innovative concept of audiovisual and live immersion in a private and moving environment such as luxury yachts. The idea comes from the AV specialist in this type of boats Yacht Intelligence, than in collaboration with IMAX and yacht designer Ken Frivokn teamed up to create an innovative space not only for playing movies or television., but also to transmit underwater and outdoor images in real time via CCTV of the vessel.

This space, Created for the first time for a large private boat whose owner wanted to test new technological proposals, motivated the union of this team to develop a new audiovisual and cinematographic concept with the design parameters for the IMAX Theatre in an unusual space, like the hull of a yacht (typically used for tanks and storage), that could be marketed in this market segment.

As Alan Bernardi explains., founder and CEO of Yacht Intelligence, "with strict IMAX parameters and very specific technology requirements, Our first challenge was to convince the sector to take us seriously and prove that it would be possible to create a truly unique private theatre on a large yacht.".

But not only space limitations were a challenge in this project., but the innovative technology of IMAX. In this sense, The space is cleverly designed for the client to enter the theater through the walls rather than through sliding doors, with the creation of a seamless immersive screen and thus accentuating the famous immersive IMAX effect and the immersive experience.

Each IMAX Private Theatre system has a camera that reads the image on the screen and feeds back into the projector, allowing real-time adjustments to ensure the screen is perfect for clarity and realism on the screen.

For this, a 4K double projection system is used, as well as another microphone that collects data from each individual channel in the speaker system and performs daily tuning calibrations, so that the correction of the channel response means that the sound is always perfectly tuned.

Another challenge was the large size of the files., since in a typical IMAX movie they reach up to 60 GB, so the download for an average customer, with a bandwidth of 10 to 20 Mbps can take more than four hours of work.

To resolve the bandwidth issue, A critical factor for the success of this project, Yacht Intelligence proposed as a solution to vary and optimize its speed, so that it was higher at night and lower during the day and during use. When the vessel is offshore, a VSAT terminal is used for on-board unloading at night.

"We always strive to be very innovative," stresses yacht designer Ken Freivokh.. We work to evoke an exclusive feeling by developing common spaces that are, fundamentally, spectacular and the first IMAX Theatre on a yacht will be just that.".

The Nemo Room will also be used for the Blu-Ray format, videoconferencing, Live content streaming and games.

As the CEO of Yacht Intelligence points out, "We believe that IMAX Private Theatre could be integrated into yachts over one hundred meters., as long as they are designed and built from the start so that none of the normal operations or spaces are negatively affected, and taking into account technology, from the ease of use of the boat to furniture that offers optimal acoustic performance. We have always been a company that likes challenges, And this is what we are making possible. I firmly believe that our work will change the way we look at AV technology on large yachts in the future.".

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