Powersoft Mover makes visitors to Illuminarium Experiences feel the African savannah

A total of 162 Moves linear transducer units from Powersoft they configure the haptic infrasound floor in the show 'Wild: a safari experience', of Illuminarium for visitors to feel from the rumble of elephant footsteps to the roar of a lion.

Illuminarium Experiences, an innovative entertainment company that creates immersive and virtual reality environments without the need for glasses, continues to add successes in his first show Wild: a safari experience, which is currently taking place in Atlanta (Georgia – Us.), as analyzed Digital AV Magazine.

Through a convergence of state-of-the-art technologies, this show allows the public to see, Listen, Feel, smell and even live a personalized experience on your tour of the show, placing the guest within the narrative, all without the need for VR glasses.

Transducers and amplifiers

One of the technologies that have been integrated to achieve this has been that of Powersoft and, specifically, your linear transducer Move, which was used to design a haptic infrasound in order to create realistic sensations, like when you step on an elephant or the roar of a lion.

The Virtual Safari Show Wild has 162 Powersoft Mover deployed throughout the enclosure, the largest installation with this linear transducer to date, according to manufacturer's data.

This Powersoft system has also been combined with twelve DSP+D amplifiers Quattrocanali 4804 of this company to get the best possible low frequency reproduction.

Mover is a compact and very powerful linear transducer, designed to deliver sound through haptic perception, making the surrounding environment vibrate, that the human body captures, so that through bone conduction it translates vibrations into perceptible frequencies.

For this Show by Illuminarium Experiences, Move has been used in your version Inertial Drive, that can be mounted directly on surfaces, even under the ground. The reproduction of ultra-low frequencies and the effectiveness of Mover do vibrate the surface and expand the experience of low frequencies.

Since space is scarce, one of illuminarium's requirements was to use a compact yet powerful technology., able to reproduce a movement as real as possible and credible, something that this linear motor technology of mobile magnets patented by Powersoft achieves in the show.

Believable and realistic sensations

Tom Knesel, Managing Director of Powersoft in the United States, explains that “Mover was designed to provide the best and most realistic immersive experience to users. We are incredibly proud to provide our patented technology haptic infrasound to help reproduce realistic sensations to visitors, in what is called to be the next generation of entertainment venues”.

Extended power management, electromagnetic conversion, reliability and maximum SPL are some of Mover's innovative features and improvements over the conventional moving coil arrangement..

for Alan Greenberg, CEO of Illuminarium Experiences, “we offer places that can take you anywhere, in a way never experienced before, through cutting-edge technology that, literally, allows the audience to feel an elephant walking in front of them, or leave footprints on the simulated dirt floor and more”.

These spaces, created by a multidisciplinary team and technology partners, Represent “a new media model to support Illuminarium's experiences and shows that is unprecedented.. This format is so exciting because it creates endless opportunities for content creators and those who want to push the boundaries of technology and experiences.”.

After Atlanta, Illuminarium Experiences will open a new space in Area 15 in Las Vegas in January 2022, and in Miami's Wynwood Arts District, in autumn next year. Other North American locations being considered are New York, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, Los Angeles and Austin.

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