Vioso provides immersive projection to create life-size map maps

The architecture studio Plan Live uses advanced projection technology from Vioso to offer your clients a full-scale view of their dream home.

Provide your customers with a one-of-a-kind experience, How to 'enter' the reproduction of your future home in real size, even before construction begins, is what the restorer and planner offers Plan Live with the technology of Vioso.

specifically, Plan Live offers the concept Grundriss 1: 1 (Flat 1: 1), A real architectural mapping of a proposed development. Control of eight projectors Epson is a Vioso media server, along with its renowned warping software, Calibration and mixing.

The floor plan is projected, in real size, in a dedicated space of 17×13.5 meters at the company's offices in Ahrensburg, in the German city of Hamburg. The movable walls and imitation furniture provided by Plan Live complete this innovative staging.

As he explains Etienne Servant, AV project manager at Vioso, "Plan Live contacted us with a clear concept in mind and asked if we could bring such a project to life., Creating all the interactive features they wanted. We organized a demonstration in our Düsseldorf office and were quickly convinced that we were the right company to help them achieve their vision.”.

Plan Live wanted a simple solution to show their clients the floor plans of the house they had designed, that had the ability to upload new content, Change projected plans in real time and control the entire system with a simple tap on a tablet.

To power the system, Servant and his team specified a media server Anystation Media Octo, with wide-angle calibration kit, and the system Vioso Camera, that allows Plan Live to easily combine projectors, with Vertex Managing all content playback.

"Our software is the heart of the system," says Servant.: Manage content playback; Perform control of the audio show, Lights & Projectors, and offers the customer a graphical interface to work with the system".

For the director of Vioso, The most challenging aspect of the project was related to the requirement to reproduce floor plans exactly as in real life.. "As the idea is to project plans on the floor to scale 1:1, We had to provide extreme precision for content mixing and warping: A meter on the floor plan should be exactly one meter on the floor.".

This was possible thanks to the Core software of Vioso, whose latest version includes a 3D calibration Advanced and easy to use, with perfect pixel distribution. Using Core, The team of this company referred to "measurements and markers in the soil that allowed us to ensure a perfect scale of 1:1", Servant points out.

After calibration with Vioso Core, the team created a presentation program in Vertex and the touch interface for the tablet, in addition to providing Plan Live with training on how to get the most out of the new system.

"We love the big images and the great projection., it's always fun to walk on a large projection surface," Servant stresses.. Going through the plan of a house and playing with fake furniture to create the feeling of actually being in the house is amazing. The experience is really awesome".

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