Escape Boat: three-screen system to create immersive viewing

Qualified by those responsible as a “disruptive technology in the digital environment”, the Belgian multinational Barco has developed Escape, a system made up of three screens to create an immersive visualization for the viewer, which has just been presented at Cinemacon 2014 in las vegas.

Barco has added to the main screen that a movie theater can have, two additional screens, placed on both sides of the first, as a digital Cinerama, in order to create a more immersive feeling for viewers who come to a movie theater or event facility, museums, etc.

This technology, presented in Las Vegas during the recent edition of Cinemacon 2014, It has been described by its managers as “disruptive and revolutionary in the digital environment”. Although the Escape demonstration is aimed at the movie theater equipment market, The company does not rule out its use in facilities to celebrate events, museums, auditorium, etc. since this system has been designed to adapt to any existing multiplex.

Escape's goal, which uses a 4K laser projector in the center and two 2K ​​high-brightness systems from Barco to display the image on the side screens, “is to provide a more intense and immersive display on a larger screen, in order to extend the limits of cinema and open the possibilities of what happens in the image outside the main screen”, explains veteran film expert Ted Schilowitz.

Escape allows you to make projections on all three screens at the same time and also generate new sensations with a central projection that continues with others on the side screens..