ST Engineering Antycip Designs Portable 3D Cave for 'Atom' Artwork

Digital artist Yann Nguema has relied on the technology of ST Engineering Antycip For Hardware, with the creation of a portable 3D Cave, and offer a stereoscopic view of his work 'Atom', which has just been presented in Rennes (Brittany).

Atom, A co-production with the Musée Française Les Champs Libres of Rennes, It is part of a series of ten works created by the digital artist and musician Yann Nguema for the exhibition Prism, which can be visited until 31 March 2024.

Specially designed for Immersive stereoscopic spaces, Atom Take advantage of "unprecedented creative possibilities", As its author points out, that offers the Cave format to explore the "beauty and poetry of polytopes in 4D, complex geometric objects impossible to represent correctly on a standard monoscopic screen (2D)".

ST Engineering Antycip, European Immersive Display Solutions Provider, has created a Custom Portable 3D Cave, That is hidden under this work of art. This space is based on an immersive screening room, designed by Frédéric Ravatin and named Sircé, which can be quickly assembled and disassembled and made easy to transport and accommodate Up to ten guests, each equipped with active 3D glasses.

Arnaud Doucet, Production Manager Anima Lux, the producer of Prism and Yann Nguema, explains that the visual content of Atom It has been created with a in-house software programmed in C++ using the stereoscopic technique, in which visitors see two different images – one in the left eye and one in the right eye- at all times.

"Scrolling between these two images to get the 3D effect is more complex than on a standard 3D screen," he said. The software uses so-called generative images to create very high-quality equirectangular and fisheye videos (16Real-time K or 4K)".

Based on the design of Sircé (whose angled faces made users feel like they were looking 'beyond' the boundaries of the Cave to another, larger space, whose dimensions and space still seemed 'normal', a phenomenon known as Orthostereoscopy), The front, left and right are Rear-projection screens, while the other three surfaces (Back, floor and ceiling) are Mirrors to give the effect of no longer being present in the physical space-

"Unlike what happens with VR headsets," says Arnaud Doucet, in this space, the spectators are part of it and are integrated into the 3D projection, giving the impression that their bodies 'levitate’ in a virtual universe. It's an experience for both the senses and the emotions.".

Projectors - three models E-Vision Laser 13000 WU manufacturer's Digital Projection– are placed around the immersion device, projecting onto the left panels, right and center of this portable 3D Cave.

Space, from 5×3 m2, It is also equipped with a 3D spatial sound system providing a high degree of acoustic immersion. Although designed for Atom, this Cave will host other projection and research projects in the future.

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