Vioso guides the immersive gastronomic journey of Journey restaurant in New York

Automatic calibration technology Vioso It is a fundamental element in this New York restaurant, that offers its diners an interactive and immersive tour around the world, without leaving the table and enjoying your dishes.

Defined as “theatrical gastronomy”, the restaurant Journey offers a multitude of ways to dine and immerse yourself in entertainment thanks to visual technology and content, Created by the experts behind some of Broadway's best-known shows, to combine the food of the well-known chef Eddie Hong con images, projection-mapped audio and live actors.

The restaurant Journey is divided into four experiences different: Lounge, Epic Café, Odyssey y 360, for which they are used 37 ultra high definition video projectors, along with twelve OLED screens, that fill the restaurant with a total of 250 million pixels.

One of the main challenges of the project was hiding the high number of projectors necessary to create the experience. “We didn't want this to look like an AV equipment disaster: The restaurant was designed by award-winning Broadway experts and has an aesthetic unique to itself, “So I was determined to hide the projectors in light tones and in the ceiling as much as I could.”, explains Jason McFerran, responsible for the integrating company Illuminating Magic.

The star of this gastronomic experience is Journey 360, a private room offering communal seating for up to twenty guests. Upon entering, diners are surrounded on each wall with a perfect projection, even adjoining along the table, of 7 metros (with a total of 12.288 pixels), while twelve projectors hidden in the ceiling create the immersive projection, aided by the system Vioso camera calibration.

Illuminating Magic has previously worked on other immersive dining experiences, although the restaurant Journey It is the first to incorporate several different ones with different technological levels: animations on the wall, the bar, the table and complete in 360°.

The combination of a “cutting-edge video presentation, con four channels of spatial audio to accompany your gastronomic adventure, It is what offers true immersion: an unforgettable experience that satisfies the five senses - says Kevin Zevchik, director of Vioso in the United States -. Greater immersion is provided by allowing guests interact with the environment around them, For example, writing graffiti on walls or creating snowflakes in the Arctic, “everything through your mobile”.

Produced and developed by Zanim8tion, video content for the experience Journey 360, which includes trips to the shores of the Amazon, at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and inside an active volcano, was created entirely in Unreal Engine with a custom four-camera rig that renders immersive 360° views.

As Zevchik points out, “maintaining 360° images is not only a feat of content creation, but also a requirement of Vioso's automatic calibration. Given the nature of New York City buildings, It is almost impossible to guarantee a perfect mix every day without autocalibration”.

Playback is also handled by Vioso hardware, with a Anystation Media server powered by IOversal Vertex, that provides ultra-high resolution images to provide the feeling of immersion in the experience Journey 360.

Both the restaurant and, in particular, Journey 360, They have obtained excellent reviews from professionals and clients, to the point of being considered one of the four best dining experiences in New York City.

“We are delighted to have participated in the creation of Journey, which has deservedly taken over the New York gastronomic scene -Zevchik underlines-. As an example of how immersive video, correctly calibrated, can elevate the dining experience, “This restaurant has earned its position among the best dining experiences in the city that never sleeps.”.