Harkness Screens launches the Digital Screen Checker, a luminance meter measuring screen brightness, expressed in foot lamberts (with a range of 0ft/L to 30 ft/L).

Designed as a tool for digital cinemas to use to monitor screen brightness and lamp life, this also fits the ProAV market when image brightness is of prime concern.

The battery-powered Digital Screen Checker reads both 2D and 3D screens and is accurate even in the lower ranges of 3D projection. The foot lambert reading is shown on an LED digital display, expressed to at least one decimal place.

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In Japan, NICT and JVC Kenwood show off the world’s largest (200”) glasses-free 3D display.

Offering 57 different viewing angles, viewers can almost walk around a virtual 3D object and peek behind objects to view additional images.

The display uses 57 projectors in an array. The 200″ screen weighs 500kg and runs off a condenser lens to focus the light for a sharper image, and a special diffuser film to lower the horizontal diffusion angle, maintaining a smooth transition between viewing angles.

NICT and JVC believe this has commercial potential for commercial design and digital signage applications: they are working on a 200-projector driven display.

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Tucked away in a corner at Gitex/InfoComm, we found Tirubaa Technologies Pvt Limited from the Science and Technology park of India, and promoted by the Dept.of Science and Technology, Govt of India.

They specialize in green technology innovations for education. On their stand was the Tirubaa Interactive Eduprojector, the world’s first LED Projector with built in PC, interactive whiteboard, online Exam system and 6-hour battery life driven by solar power, wind or by paddling.

Calling it dust-proof, the maker says it offers 2200 peak lumens. The target market is obviously education but also education in rural areas and Third World environments.

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In Kuwait, the 360 Mall’s Family Entertainment Center complex features top-of-the-line rides, the latest video games and skill tests for the entire family. Spanning an area of 9000 sq. meters, this high-end in-door entertainment hopes to draw 5,000,000 visitors per year.

Divided into several zones, the 360 MALL’s amusement venue features a Bowl Room covering a 2500 sq.m area of 10-pin bowling lanes and fun. The Infunity zone offers an area of more than 5000 Sq. Mts., designed to meet the requirements of families and includes latest fashionable rides and skill-redemption games. The Freeze Club offers 1500 sq.m, targeting teenagers.

The fun in this mall was created by Tamdeen Entertainment Company and designed by Concept i Design. Electrosonic designed, supplied, installed and programmed the extensive LED lighting, digital signage, video projection, special effects, audio and show control — drawing on Christie projection.

Helping to put the fun into the Infunity Zone, with its assortment of rides, is a Christie DS+750, a 7500 ANSI lumens single-chip DLP SXGA+ projector. Working in combination with GestureTek gesture-controlled tracking technology this fires vertically down onto the floor to enable children to interact with the content of popping balloons and swimming fish.

Elsewhere, the Freeze Club , a North Pole motif offers a unique venue for Kuwaiti teens with arcades, video games and simulators. An interactive video wall at the entrance features two flexible Christie DHD700 single-chip DLP HD projectors — again working with GestureTek cameras and tracking systems, and outputting 6500 ANSI lumens — allowing young guests to interact with the content, while low-lying fog is generated underneath the video wall itself.

Extremely popular in visitor attractions, the DHD700 contains a unique, user-changeable, twin-colour wheel system (to offer high brightness and rich-colour options) so that the presentation can be optimised according to which mode is preferred: there is also a choice of six motorised HD lens.

Creating further impact in Infunity, 67 LED fixtures wash the games area and generate excitement with colour changes, while an entire wall of 18 displays forms an art installation in the middle of the zone’s large atrium. Infunity also features what is believed to be the largest LED wall in Kuwait — a 10mm, 7.68 x 4.8 meter LED video wall.

Electrosonic have also injected the Freeze Club with 15 LCD digital signage systems to display advertising and information, while a lo-res wall, boasting over 2,000 meters of LEDs, wraps around the entire room and displays fire, rain, graphics and abstract patterns. A laser system, installed by Electrosonic, recreates the Aurora Borealis on the domed ceiling and is enhanced by smoke effects.

The 20-lane Bowl Room (plus separate VIP lanes) includes 3500 individual strands of colour-changing fibre in a 9-chandelier array, while the overall installation incorporates an advanced audio solution, with central and local control racks, while centrally-located Medialon servers control digital signage throughout the complex.

Electrosonic’s work in the complex took 18 months.

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Go Christie at the 360 Mall in Kuwait