Powersoft Mover makes Illuminarium Experiences visitors feel the African savanna

A total of 162 Linear transducer units Move from Powersoft configure the haptic infrasound floor in the show 'Wild: a safari experience’, of Illuminator so that visitors can feel everything from the rumble of elephant footsteps to the roar of a lion.

Illuminarium Experiences, an innovative entertainment company that creates immersive and virtual reality environments without the need for glasses, continues to add successes in its first show Wild: a safari experience, which is currently taking place in Atlanta (Georgia – EU), as analyzed Digital AV Magazine.

Through a convergence of cutting-edge technologies, This show allows the public to see, listen, feel, smell and even have a personalized experience on your tour of the show, placing the guest within the narrative, all without the need for VR glasses.

Transducers and amplifiers

One of the technologies that have been integrated to achieve this has been Powersoft y, specifically, your linear transducer Mover, which was used to design a floor of haptic infrasound in order to create realistic sensations, like when you step on an elephant or the roar of a lion.

The virtual safari show Wild has 162 Powersoft Mover deployed throughout the venue, the largest facility with this linear transducer to date, according to manufacturer's data.

This Powersoft system has also been combined with twelve DSP+D amplifiers Quattrocanali 4804 from this company to obtain the best possible low frequency reproduction.

Mover is a compact and very powerful linear transducer, designed to deliver sound through haptic perception, vibrating the surrounding environment, that the human body captures, so that through bone conduction it translates vibrations into perceptible frequencies.

For this Illuminarium Experiences show, Move has been used in your version Inertial Drive, which can be mounted directly to surfaces, even under the ground. The reproduction of ultra low frequencies and the effectiveness of Move make vibrate the surface and expand the experience of low frequencies.

Since space is at a premium, One of Illuminarium's requirements was to use compact but powerful technology, capable of reproducing a movement that is as real as possible and credible, something this Powersoft patented moving magnet linear motor technology achieves in the show.

Believable and realistic sensations

Tom Knesel, CEO of Powersoft in the United States, explains that “Mover was designed to provide the best and most realistic immersive experience to users. We are incredibly proud to provide our patented technology haptic infrasound to help reproduce realistic sensations for visitors, in what is destined to be the next generation of entertainment venues”.

Extended power management, electromagnetic conversion, Reliability and maximum SPL are some of the innovative features and improvements of Mover over the conventional voice coil arrangement.

To Alan Greenberg, CEO of Illumination Experiences, “We offer places that can take you anywhere, in a way never experienced before, through cutting-edge technology that, literally, allows the audience to feel an elephant walking in front of them, or leave footprints on the simulated dirt floor and more”.

These spaces, created by a multidisciplinary team and technological partners, represent “a new media model to support Illuminarium experiences and shows that is unprecedented - he states -. This format is so exciting because it creates endless opportunities for content creators and those who want to push the boundaries of technology and experiences.”.

After Atlanta, Illuminarium Experiences will open a new space in Area 15 in Las Vegas in January 2022, and in Miami's Wynwood arts district, in autumn next year. Other North American locations being considered include New York, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, Los Angeles and Austin.