Scalable Display projects in 360º the history of the Irish site Céide Fields

The visitor center of Céide Fields Delivers an immersive experience with Scalable Display for visitors to visualize the complex and extensive remains of the oldest fields and stone walls in the world.

the Neolithic site of Céide Fields, in Mayo County (Ireland), which according to historians dates from a 6.000 years, are covered by a natural peat bog, with unique vegetation and fauna, which houses an area of fields, housing areas and megalithic tombs that constitute the the most extensive Stone Age monument of the world.

Just a year ago, the Irish Government opened a state-of-the-art visitor experience centre at Céide Fields, Located in front of spectacular rock formations and with a large observation platform on the edge of the cliff of 110 meters high, who has now completed a project with Immersive technology to show its discovery and archaeological history.

The Irish company Rockbrook Audio Visual was selected to design and apply customized audiovisual technologies, creative and interactive to this center, which has resulted in the creation of the First immersive experience of fixed installation 360º in a visitor center in this country.

He points this out. Jon Hughes, Managing Director, Rockbrook Engineering: "Our goal was to create an immersive experience that allowed time travel., through computer-generated image animations (CGI), to what we believe was the life of the settlers ago 6.000 years. Although this type of 360º experiences is not something innovative by current standards, Building one in such a small space and with an incredibly complex room shape required a lot of detailed engineering and a compelling software solution to create the mix.".

Facing the challenges of space, Hughes emphasizes that "based on the extensive experience of our team in the creation of combined screens, We knew there was only one viable option: Scalable Displays Technologies. At first we talked to James Pietsch, Your Global Account Manager, who went out of his way to help us and put the solution at our disposal, for which we are very grateful.".

The technological integration in the center of Céide Fields had to adapt to a Very complex room design, since the wall is located at a different angle, some of them with concave shape and horseshoe, like a pentagon and with each side of a different length.

"It was a very complicated space and could have forbidden us to do what we physically wanted," Hughes recalls.. To complicate it even more, Placement of the projectors was an incredible challenge. We had to make sure that visitors to the space didn't interrupt the projection beams as they moved around the room., which required placing some of them at acute angles.".

The space uses a total of Eighteen projectors to cover all surfaces. The software of Scalable automates the calibration process and simplifies mixing from multiple computers, "And we can guarantee optimal recalibration on a regular basis to provide perfect mixtures," he says.. Simplifies the maintenance outlook for this specific application, In addition to . can work with multiple rendering clients, which allows us to incorporate various types of content".

The content displayed is composed entirely of CGI animations, that run at a Resolution of 11.520×2.100 Pixels, of the current environment and landscape of Céide Fields. Start with a high-speed flyover from the sea to the cliffs, and the landscape goes back thousands of years until the timeline shows 6.000 years B.C., with scenes depicting life at that time.

The content ends with the landscape evolving into the modern era, where a man with a group of children sticks long bars into the ground in search of submerged walls, As the journey of discovery continues to this day.

Céide Fields is not an archaeological monument or a visitor center to use, but "the most extensive monument of the Stone Age in the world -they emphasize from the organization-, which has been a success at all levels, highlighting its history through captivating content displayed with state-of-the-art technology".

In this sense, Hughes stresses that in addition to the accuracy of Scalable's software, "your team is the real selling point that you don't know when researching a product. After all,, Projects are made by people rather than software or technology. It had been a long time since I had worked with a team like his., who was involved in the project and adapted to its needs. We work in different time zones with a complex remote access infrastructure. However, We made it work.".

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