048 REPORT
MOVIELAND PARK
Company: Matrox Location: Lake Garda, Italy
Italy’s Movieland Park has selected the Matrox DualHead2Go external multi-dis- play adapter to drive three new multi-display and multi-projector attractions at its amusement park on Lake Garda. DualHead2Go adds two monitors or projectors to a single desktop computer and uniquely leverages the host graphics card to render multimedia content across highly immersive, multi-screen environments. Movieland Park required a multi-display solution capable of running 3D graphics across multiple displays and projectors for three upcoming attractions: a four-pro- jector Police Academy simulation, a Terminator 5D game, and a dual-touchscreen panel for the Night Festival discothèque. The park considered several hardware
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
Company: L-Acoustics Location: Hollywood, USA
Following the loss of its popular King Kong ride to a fire in 2008, Universal Studios Hollywood has spent the past two years turning up the heat on its newest and most exciting attraction, ‘King Kong 360 3D’ - created by Peter Jackson. A col- laborative effort between the celebrated film director and Universal Creative, the attraction, which transports Studio Tour guests to Skull Island for a truly immersive battle between King Kong and a number of huge dinosaurs, is the largest, most intense 3D experience on the planet. Working with talented professionals from Weta Digital and Park Road Post on the complex video and 22-channel sound design, Jackson and Universal turned to Pro Sound CA for the sound reinforcement system design and implementation. “We’ve worked with Paul Cuoco, Universal Studios’ Technical Manager, on a number of attractions in the past and he requested that we bid on this project,” said Arron Szabo, Vice President of Pro Sound CA. “The creative and technical service teams dictated that the loudspeakers must be visually unobtrusive, capable of producing good levels and fidelity at a distance, and not be self-powered for ease of service- ability. With that in mind, we ran a number of Soundvision models and ultimately recommended an L-Acoustics system comprised of compact KIVA and KILO
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enclosures augmented by SB28 subs.” When entering ‘King Kong 360 3D’ aboard the Studio tour, guests don 3D glasses while surrounded on both sides by a custom pair of 187ft-long compound curved screens that stand 40ft tall. Evenly spaced out just above the top edge of each screen are three loudspeaker clusters comprised of a single KILO low- frequency extension cabinet with two ultra-compact KIVA line source systems mounted just below it. On the bottom edges of the screens, five identical clusters are spread out on each side. For ample LF reproduction, a single SB28 enclosure is positioned at the two lower corners of each screen. All systems are powered by L-Acoustics’ LA4 and LA8 amplified controllers. “We had used KIVA in another project a few years ago and they performed really well,” Szabo recalled. “They’re extremely small, capable of high SPLs, and the fidelity is phenomenal, especially considering that the upper arrays on this attrac- tion are flown nearly 60ft high. Despite the distance, two KIVA and one KILO per location was more than sufficient to meet the required decibel level and coverage requirements.”
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