Scalable Display projects the history of Céide Fields in 360º

The Visitor Center of Céide Fields offers an immersive experience with the technology of Scalable Display for visitors to visualize the complex and extensive remains of the oldest fields and stone walls in the world.

The Neolithic site of Céide Fields, in Mayo County (Ireland), which according to historians dates from about 6.000 years, are covered by a natural peat bog, with unique vegetation and fauna, which houses an area of fields, dwelling areas and megalithic tombs that constitute the largest Stone Age monument of the world.

Just a year ago, Irish Government Opens State-of-the-Art Visitor Experience Centre in Céide Fields, located in front of spectacular rock formations and with a large observation deck on the edge of the cliff of 110 meters high, that has now completed a project with Immersive technology to show its discovery and archaeological history.

The Irish company Rockbrook Audio Visual was selected to design and implement customized audiovisual technologies, creative and interactive to this center, the result of which has been the creation of the First immersive 360º fixed installation experience at a visitor center in this country.

This is what he points out Jon Hughes, Managing Director of Rockbrook Engineering: "Our goal was to create an immersive experience that would allow you to travel back in time, through computer-generated image animations (CGI), to what we think was the life of the settlers 6.000 years. Although this type of 360º experience is not something innovative by today's standards, Building one in such a small space and with an incredibly complex room shape required a lot of detailed engineering and a compelling software solution to create the mix.".

Facing the challenges of space, Hughes stresses that "based on our team's extensive experience in creating blended screens, We knew there was only one viable option: Scalable Displays Technologies. At first we talked to James Pietsch, Your Global Account Manager, who went out of his way to help us and made the solution available to us, for which we are very grateful".

The technological integration at the Céide Fields site had to be adapted to a Very complex room design, since the wall is located at a different angle, some of them concave and horseshoe-shaped, like a pentagon and with each side of a different length.

"It was a very complicated space and it could have forbidden us to do what we physically wanted," Hughes recalls. To complicate it even more, The placement of the projectors was an incredible challenge. We had to make sure that visitors to the space didn't interrupt the projection beams as they moved around the room, which required placing some of them at sharp angles".

The space uses a total of Eighteen projectors to cover all surfaces. The Scalable automates the calibration process and simplifies mixing of various teams, "And we can ensure optimal recalibration on a regular basis to provide perfect blends," he says. Simplifies the maintenance outlook for this particular application, in addition to the fact that . You can work with multiple rendering clients, which allows us to incorporate various types of content".

The content displayed is composed entirely of CGI animations, that are executed at a Resolution of 11.520×2.100 Pixels, of the current environment and landscape of Céide Fields. Start with a high-speed flyover from the sea to the cliffs, and the landscape goes back thousands of years until the timeline shows 6.000 years B.C, with scenes depicting life at that time.

The content ends with the landscape evolving into the modern era, where a man with a group of children sticks long bars into the ground in search of submerged walls, as the journey of discovery continues to this day.

Céide Fields is not an archaeological monument or a typical visitor centre, but "the most extensive Stone Age monument in the world," the organization stresses, that has been a success at all levels, highlighting its history through captivating content displayed with state-of-the-art technology".

In this sense, Hughes stresses that in addition to the accuracy of Scalable's software, "their equipment is the real selling point that you don't know when researching a product. After all,, Projects are made by people rather than software or technology. It had been a long time since he had worked with a team like his, who was involved in the project and adapted to the needs of the project. We work across different time zones with a complex remote access infrastructure. However, we made it work".

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