Irish rock band U2 has started in Vancouver (Canada) your Innocence+Experience tour with a spectacular show based on large transparent LED video screens developed by the specialist Saco Technologies.

Saco Technologies U2 tour

“We are not afraid of technology. “We like innovation”. With these words, the singer of the band U2, Bono, He addressed the thousands of fans who filled the SAP Arena in San José (California) showing the huge transparent Led video screens (the 29.3x 7,6 metros) who star in the show of their Innocence+Experience tour, which started in the middle of last May in the Canadian city of Vancouver, and that now continues through North America.

The V-Thru Led screens have been designed by the specialist Saco Technologies, company belonging to the group Lsii International, for this U2 tour that is not leaving anyone indifferent. The show has been created by well-known show designer Willie Williams, that together with this company and the technological provider for events PRG-Nocturne, have provided these spectacular transparent Led video screens.

Saco Technologies U2 tour

Each of the screens is made up of 240 individual V-Thru Led video panels from Saco Technologies, with a total of 480 tour panels, whose novelty is that in addition to allowing the band to be part of the video screen and interact with the content of the show thanks to its transparency of more than one 80%, adds the low weight of the systems (see attached video).

As Fred Jalbout has pointed out, President and CEO of Saco Technologies, “U2 is a special client for us, since he was the first to use our revolutionary Led video screen back in the day. 1997. As a company, We always try to keep our technology constantly evolving , "and we are delighted to have been selected by PRG-Nocturne to achieve U2's artistic vision on this tour.".

Saco Technologies U2 tour

Specifically, This Canada-based audiovisual specialist collaborated with the Irish band and Willie Williams during the Pop Mart tour, in 1997, for which I designed a huge LED video screen (of 45.72×15 metros), with which he established a Guinness World Record for its size never seen in a show.

Labbly Labbe, executive vice president and chief marketing officer of this company, “Saco Technologies has always been a visionary company and we love having a customer base that is able to push the boundaries and give us an opportunity to bring new ideas to life”.

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By, 15 Jun, 2015, Section: Case studies, OUTSTANDING, Display, Events


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