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Tokyo Lab Pushes Mind-Wobbling Possibilities For Projection Mapping

The big problem with projection mapping – apart from high costs and weather – was for quite some the technical challenge of aligning the projector or blended projectors precisely to a target projection surface. It got harder if the surface wasn’t flat. Software has fixed a lot of that, particularly projection-mapping software coming from companies like Christie. […]

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Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 2:12 PM

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Projects: Toronto’s Casa Loma Projection-Mapped For Halloween Attraction

The Toronto landmark Case Loma, a Gothic Revival-style house that looks like it could be used for a Canadian version of Downton Abbey, has been transformed this month as a projection mapping surface for a Halloween attraction. […]

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Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 6:25 AM

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16:9: How To Skirt City Billboard Bans, Using Projection Mapping

Here’s an interesting way to get around a city’s billboard advertising laws – use projection and make the windows of rented commercial space the billboard. That’s what Citibank has done at its high profile branch on Faria Lima Avenue in São Paulo, Brazil. […]

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Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:00 AM

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16:9: 80 Million Pixels Light Up At Dubai’s New City Walk Market

This looks kind of amazing – 12 football fields worth of digital visuals on LED and projection in the new Meraas City Walk market in Dubai. Overall, the Meraas project involves more than 30 LED installations in 21 different formats and nearly 30 high-res projectors totalling over 80 million pixels. It’s easily one of the most ambitious digital installs done to date, globally. […]

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Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 9:09 AM

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NEC To Start Shipping Long-Lasting Laser-Based Projectors For Signage & Projection Mapping

Projectors with laser light engines have been around the cinema space for a while now, but the technology is now starting to find its way into other commercial applications – including indoor signage and indoor projection mapping. NEC has introduced a single-chip DLP 8,000-lumen laser projector it says is the first of its kind in this market category. […]

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Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:34 AM

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16:9: Montreal’s Arts District Adds More Projection-Mapped Buildings, Interactive Seesaws

The arts quarter of the amazing city of Montreal has been a visual treat for a few years, owing to various temporary and permanent installations that use lighting and projection. But that gets amped up starting tonight, with  a program that runs through the end of January. […]

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Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:18 AM

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16:9: Billboard Mapping In Milan

Via Av Magazine Here’s an interesting spin on projection mapping, that addresses what to do about the marketing investment when the sun is up. In this case, two traditional billboards facing each other across a square in Milan have static messaging by day and motion by night, the billboards lit up by long throw projector lenses flanking the billboards. […]

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Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 1:44 PM

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Projects: The Biggest Indoor Projection Map Project In US

Hat tip to DailyDOOH, as I missed this one when the release came out … Here is a terrific example of what can be done with projection mapping INSIDE a room with controlled lighting conditions – the ceiling on Union Station in St. Louis, MO. […]

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Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:15 PM

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Projects: Moscow Lights Up Giant 370-Meter Wide Projection Map Show

Via AV Interactive This is one BIG projection mapping projected – described as a world record for this kind of tech. The 370-metre facade of the Ministry of Defence in Moscow was bathed in light from 142 digital projectors across six towers. For the metric impaired, that’s roughly four football fields wide. […]

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Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:13 AM

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16:9, DSrupted: The Future Is About Pixels Everywhere

So much has happened on the software and computing side of the digital signage business in recent years that I think we tend to overlook how much has also happened on the display side. When I got into this business 16 years ago LCD panels were small and crazily expensive, and the big flat panels were $10,000 40-inch plasma displays that weighed roughly as much as oil tankers. […]

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Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:28 AM

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Projects: Empire State Building Gets Projection-Mapped To Aid Endangered Species

I saw Twitter posts about how the Empire State Building in New York got projection-mapped earlier this month in a big public statement about protecting endangered species, but I was waiting on better pix and details before writing anything. Got that stuff now. […]

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Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:14 PM

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Projects: Singapore Celebrates 50th With Giant Projection-Mapping Show

Singapore has turned into the centre of the universe when it comes to projection mapping, with seemingly more of that happening there than in the rest of the world combined. Consider how the nation’s 50th birthday was celebrated yesterday, with mapping done at three locations and using more than 120 of Christie’s projectors. […]

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Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 3:35 PM

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16:9: Tiny Virtual Chef Fires Up Meal For Belgian Diners

This is brilliant – projection mapping, using a custom animation on a guest table at a Belgian restaurant. A tiny chef pops out of a virtual hole in the table, and proceeds to fire up a grill and start cooking. The whole thing is projection mapped and is a great representation of how that tech is not just for the sides of buildings and huge spaces. […]

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Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 9:06 AM

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Projects: The Projection-Mapped Dead Sea Scrolls

LA’s California Science Center used a running exhibit on the Dead Sea Scroll as the visual theme for its big fundraising evening, the Discovery Ball – using a massive projection mapping set-up to make a vast screen that had to work its way around things like dangling airplanes. […]

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Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 12:51 PM

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Interesting Use-Case: Projection Mapping For Crowd Control

Here’s an interesting use-case for projection mapping – crowd control. Canada’s Wonderland – a big theme park on Toronto’s outskirts – does a nightly projection mapping show on the park’s fake mountain structure near the entry/exit gates. It closes the park’s evening, and pulls people from all over the park to see the mountain transformed. […]

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Thu, May 14, 2015 at 4:12 PM

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