270 degree mobile projection environment November 17, 2011

The Creativity World Forum  is a highly regarded conference on innovation and creativity which has been hosted all over the world in the past years and this year was held in Hasselt.

Picture (c) Cedric Vanaken

The University of Hasselt installed there a 5m diameter, 3m high, 270-degrees mobile projection environment, in which it is showed an omni-directional recording captured earlier this year at the Arras (France) main square rock festival (100,000 spectators) with the Belgian TV station Exqi-culture and Alfacam in the context of the regionally financed IBBT R&D project “explorative television”, xtv in short. IBBT xtv is a folow-up R&D project directly spinning out of 2020 3D Media.

People visiting our demo experienced a rock concert by the British band “Kaiser Chiefs” as if they were sitting on stage – the experience was very convincing. The reactions were unanimously highly enthousiastic with visitors twittering about it as “the future of cinema”.