A convex Eyevis video wall welcomes visitors to Bell Helicopter

Bell Helicopter has chosen eyevis omniSHAPES modules to configure the convex video wall of 8,4 square meters that it has installed in the lobby of its recently remodeled headquarters in Fort Worth.

A convex video wall at the new Bell Helicopter headquarters, composed of 48 omniSHAPES screens eyevis, Welcomes visitors in the main lobby. A screen of 8,4 square meters that offers optimal viewing with a resolution of 8,192×4,608 pixels.

Bell Helicopter Textron is an American helicopter manufacturer, whose headquarters are in Fort Worth (Texas – United States). Recently, A remodeling has been carried out on the campus and the Bell Employee Center has been established, which represents the first step in the remodeling of the company.

The Bell Employee Center and new headquarters building were both designed by architecture firm Merriman Associates. These two buildings play a key role in the development of the Bell identity. Since April 2014 around 5.000 employees work on campus.

The new entrance area of ​​the headquarters not only serves to welcome visitors, but it is also a space where presentations and events are held.. This is why an AV technology was sought that would respond to high requirements..

The building design had already been completed and construction had begun, when Bell decided to install a convex video wall in its main lobby. Therefore, A solution had to be found that adapted to the architecture carried out, that would fit into an elliptical environment already planned in that room.

The video wall modules had to fit the design specifications and the Eyevis omniSHAPES solution, distributed in North America by Ayon Visual Solutions (AVS), It was the best option that could solve the problem.

Datacom Design Group has been the company responsible for its design, in addition to taking care of the building's low voltage systems, as well as IT communications and security systems. For your part, AVI-SPL has been the integrator of the project.

““We selected the eyevis omniSHAPE because it was the only video wall cube system that can be configured in convex shapes and it fit the elliptical shape of the lobby.”, comments consultant Richard Bumpass from Datacom Design Group.

omniSHAPES modules can be installed in video wall configurations in a convex format with an angle of up to 12 degrees. Besides, They provide front support for installation and maintenance so Merriman Associates architects did not have to include access slots or removable panels in the elliptical waiting room design..

Diversity of sources

The omniSHAPES video wall is used in the lobby primarily to display marketing information and internally produced Rotorvision content. Besides, there are local signal inputs so that the lobby space can be used for presentations.

Signals are transmitted from different sources via fiber optic cables to the eyevis netPIX graphics controller. These include a Blu-ray player, a TV tuner and a content manager for RSS files.

In order to have a future-proof system, the entire signal transmission is prepared to reproduce 4K content., which can be realized through the eyevis netPIX graphics controller with professional input and output cards.