Digital Projection creates an immersive experience to bring Japanese culture to life

To achieve this immersive experience and offer a 360º projection along all surfaces, more than 30 10K E-Vision projectors from Digital Projection, in addition to the videowall controller VNS GeoBox and a player BrightSign.

Danny Rose Studio, the collective on which the art exhibition is based The Spirit of Japan in the Kadokawa Culture Museum, has deployed more than 30 laser projectors 10K E-Vision of Digital Projection to illuminate the floors, ceilings and walls of this spectacular space and create an immersive experience.

The original name of the exhibition The Spirit of Japan is 'Ukiyo-e Theatre'. the ukiyo-e are small works of art created in the Asian country between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, that reflected scenes from daily life. These works achieved great popularity in their tour of the Western world., forging an impressionist artistic movement.

With this sample, color fans, the flashlights on, cherry blossoms waving in the wind revive nostalgia for the past.

Danny Rose Studio previously organized an exhibition in France, Entitled Dream Japan: images of the floating world, which attracted two million visitors. This was redesigned to The Spirit of Japan.

Employing advanced video projection technologies, Danny Rose Studio has created environments that are totally immersive and often unrealistic.. Creators from different areas, including digital artists, programmers and musicians, collaborate to combine historical works of art. In this case the nineteenth century in Japan, with contemporary technologies and narratives with which an entirely new type of large-scale visual/spatial installation has been created.

360º projection

To achieve something of this magnitude, the place was divided into three large areas where a combined projection of 360 degrees along all surfaces. Together with Digital Projection's laser technology, a videowall controller was chosen VNS GeoBox to manage the joining of the edges of the different projectors, coupled with a player BrightSign to display video content.

Duke Hu, by Digital Projection Japan, ensures that having so many projectors in one room creates a number of unique challenges. “Due to the limitation in height of the ceiling of the exhibition hall, the projection on the ground required the use of more projectors to correctly display the entire image. We needed a creative solution to achieve this.. Traditionally we would orient the projectors towards the ground, but this time we did them up and used the periscope lens UST, achieving additional height and coverage”.

Using too many projectors above the ground would have caused the light to scatter, with an adverse effect on the image quality of the walls, so that this solution of using UST lenses achieved optimal performance for all funds.

The laser E-Vision compact was the best choice, as it is able to achieve high levels of ambient lighting, with 11 250 lumen from a solid-state light source.

For an exhibition of this magnitude, it was important to choose a flexible and reliable technology. Digital Projection's E-Vision 10K laser projectors offer a stable and predictable light source for up to 20 000 hours, and edge joining features ensure a seamless image created from multiple projectors.

“For an exhibition of this magnitude and complexity, it is essential that the technology is up to the final goal. This art exhibition requires a comprehensive view of 360 Degrees, which implies a huge number of edge joints without compromising image quality", Explains Mark Wadsworth, of Digital Projection.

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