Digital Projection creates an immersive experience to bring Japanese culture to life

To achieve this immersive experience and offer a 360º projection along all surfaces, have been used more than 30 10K E-Vision projectors Digital Projection, plus video wall controller VNS GeoBox and a player BrightSign.

Danny Rose Studio, the collective on which the art exhibition is based The Spirit of Japan in it Kadokawa Culture Museum, has deployed more than 30 laser projectors 10K E-Vision by Digital Projection to illuminate the floors, ceilings and walls of this spectacular space and create an immersive experience.

The original name of the exhibition The Spirit of Japan es ‘Ukiyo-e Theater’. Los ukiyo-e They are small works of art created in the Asian country between the 17th and 19th centuries., that reflected scenes of daily life. These works achieved great popularity as they traveled throughout the Western world., forging an impressionist art movement.

With this sample, color fans, the lanterns lit, cherry blossoms waving in the wind revive the nostalgia of the past.

Danny Rose Studio previously organized an exhibition in France, titled The dreamed Japan: images of the floating world, which attracted two million visitors. This was redesigned to The Spirit of Japan.

Using advanced video projection technologies, Danny Rose Studio has created environments that are totally immersive and often unreal. Creators of different areas, including digital artists, programmers and musicians, collaborate to combine historical works of art. In this case, the 19th century in Japan, with contemporary technologies and narratives that have created an entirely new type of large-scale visual/spatial installation.

360º projection

To achieve something of this magnitude, The place was divided into three large areas where a combined projection of 360 degrees along all surfaces. Together with Digital Projection laser technology, a video wall controller was chosen VNS GeoBox to manage the joining of the edges of the different projectors, coupled with a player BrightSign to display video content.

Duke Hu, by Digital Projection Japan, ensures that having so many projectors in a single room creates a series of unique challenges. “Due to the ceiling height limitation of the exhibition hall, floor projection required the use of more projectors to properly display the entire image. We needed a creative solution to achieve this. Traditionally we would point the projectors towards the ground, but this time we turned them up and used the periscope lens UST, achieving additional height and coverage”.

Using too many floodlights on the ground would have caused the light to be scattered, with an adverse effect on the image quality of the walls, so this solution of using UST lenses achieved optimal performance for all backgrounds.

The laser E-Vision compact was the best choice, since it is capable of achieving high levels of ambient lighting, con 11 250 lumen from a solid state light source.

For an exhibition of this magnitude, It was important to choose a flexible and reliable technology. Digital Projection's E-Vision 10K laser projectors offer a stable and predictable light source for up to 20 000 hours, and edge stitching features that ensure a seamless image created from multiple projectors.

“For an exhibition of this magnitude and complexity, It is essential that technology lives up to the final objective. This art exhibition requires a comprehensive vision of 360 degrees, which involves a huge amount of edge stitching without compromising image quality.”, explains Mark Wadsworth, de Digital Projection.