Nanolumens takes LEDs across the curve

Nanolumens’ versatile, configurable Nixel Sequence LED screens can wrap round shapes and curves

by James Careless

Think about a direct view LED (dvLED) video show system that may be curved and formed to suit the surfaces, ceilings, and flooring of darkish rides, immersive areas, customer facilities, museums, science facilities, aquariums, and zoos. That’s proper: this might be a dvLED show system that can be utilized as a floor therapy mainly wherever that an operator needs to indicate shifting video and pc graphics to friends – with out the restrictions of inflexible show and projection programs.

Now take into account the artistic prospects for designers and media producers. The flexibility to make use of nearly each floor in an area as a shifting show system creates thrilling choices and removes many former limitations. Furthermore, the platform would help a number of visible situations for a similar journey or attraction as a result of their very interiors will show no matter their servers feed to them.

Based on Nanolumens, a producer of custom-made LED video show programs, these prospects are usually not fantasy; they’re reality. And the know-how holds so many prospects for the sights trade that the corporate is addressing it as a market vertical.

Nanolumens says that its versatile Nixel Sequence dvLED shows with patented True Curve™ know-how can go round curves and corners and be tailor-made to suit uniquely formed surfaces as nicely. For designers and operators alike, the outcomes may be video shows that ship a extra seamless, immersive setting and expertise. “By utilizing Nanolumens’ versatile dvLED shows, operators can wow their friends with awe-inspiring first and lasting impressions in just about any kind of venue,” says Arch Nelson, Nanolumens Director of Themed Leisure/SE Regional Gross sales Supervisor.

True Curve™ know-how

Traditionally, LED video shows have been made by attaching pink, inexperienced and blue LEDs (light-emitting diodes) onto inflexible printed circuit boards (PCBs). This basic reality explains why LED shows have been constructed as flat slabs. In these circumstances the place they’ve been custom-made to take care of curves, “this has been completed by faceting collectively a collection of inflexible boards,” says Nelson. “Principally, they’ve been a bunch of flat items put collectively at angles, relatively than a real curve.”

In distinction, Nanolumens makes use of flexible PCBs constructed from patented Nixel versatile constructing blocks to mount their dvLEDs. “This permits us to construct non-faceted, seamless dvLED shows that may circulation round curves and different shapes,” Nelson says. “You possibly can even use our Nixel Sequence shows to suit inside domes or round globes: There’s simply that a lot flexibility constructed into our True Curve know-how. That is what makes Nanolumens stand out from each different dvLED producer within the enterprise.”

“Nanolumens is understood for creating uniquely formed video shows and sights,” provides Kurt DeYoung, the corporate’s Chief Income Officer. “Whether or not it’s curves, angles, arches, columns, or some other advanced shapes that require engineered video options, we do all of it.”

“Consequently, you’ll be able to set up our Nixel Sequence dvLED shows in some fairly tight areas,” concludes Dan Rossborough, Nanolumens’ Director of Strategic Initiatives. “This simply isn’t true for video projection programs that eat into house to deal with the {hardware}, and even flat panel shows that compromise curves as they stand out from the wall. Our Nixel Sequence shows are so skinny – simply 4 inches – and versatile that they’re actually floor remedies. They’re merely the easiest way to ship video and graphics to friends within the least obtrusive, handiest method. And the room that they don’t devour provides operators extra space to dedicate to expertise enhancements for friends, relatively than allowances for video projectors.”

As a result of these shows may be simply up to date, the platform facilitates content material and theming adjustments for seasonal and vacation occasions and different particular programming. The identical shows is also used to completely refresh an current journey/attraction with new visible content material, or to supply friends with various visible situations that change every time they arrive into the house, supporting alternate storylines or non-linear storytelling.

“By using versatile video shows, a single journey/attraction may now inform many tales through the use of Nixel Sequence shows whereas minimizing capital outlays to make it occur. This must be an particularly welcome profit at a time when parks and sights are beneath monetary constraints as a consequence of fallout from the pandemic however must ship new experiences as they welcome again clients,” says Nelson.

For designers, producers and integrators

By creating versatile dvLED shows that take up minimal house in a room whereas conforming to the shapes and surfaces, Nanolumens seems to have freed designers and producers from various artistic constraints whereas opening up new prospects. Nanolumens Nixel Sequence shows are like video canvases, simply ready for his or her brushstrokes.

Based on Nanolumens, these versatile video canvases might be used to supply a journey/attraction’s scenic setting, to inform a narrative with shifting imagery, lead friends all through the house, and even to spice up branding, relying on the imagery that the designer chooses to placed on the partitions (and ceilings, and even flooring). The versatile shows can even interface seamlessly with an operator’s current video belongings, networking/routing infrastructure, and libraries of movies and graphics package deal – optimizing the worth of current content material and supporting the creation of recent content material.

As a result of this could be a important paradigm shift for designers, producers, and integrators, Nanolumens gives help and enter as wanted to assist them adapt to this new manner of making AV environments and telling tales inside these environments.

“Now we have a workforce right here referred to as the Particular Initiatives Group,” says DeYoung. “That workforce is staffed with Nanolumens designers who’re right here to work with our clients, whether or not they’re finish customers or integrators, to assist them get essentially the most out of our versatile shows and notice their artistic visions.” He encourages together with the Nanolumens Particular Initiatives Group in early levels of the design course of.

An end-to-end method

The flexibleness of Nanolumens’ dvLED Nixel Series shows is only one side of this know-how. Based on the corporate, your entire Nixel show system has been designed to supply dependable, color-accurate, and constant video/graphics efficiency from the primary minute a Nixel Sequence show is turned on.

That is why Nanolumens’ Nixel Sequence – and certainly all of its shows – provide fine-tuned coloration accuracy and high-resolution imagery to maximise image high quality, explains DeYoung. “Superior processing and management options embedded into our shows enable for true-to-life coloration accuracy always,” he says. “Our seamless know-how delivers edge-to-edge brilliance that immerses friends in magical new methods, pushed by gorgeous dvLED visuals that elevate the visitor’s experiences utilizing infinite pixel canvases.”

Nanolumens’ Nixel Sequence shows are also designed to ship sensible advantages to operators, corresponding to minimal upkeep past display screen cleansing/dusting plus long-term reliability. “All of our merchandise include a typical, six-year guarantee that covers all elements proper all the way down to the person pixel,” Nelson stated. “Spare components are included in all of our purposes at no additional price, and we’re so assured in our shows that our six-year guarantee may be prolonged to 10 years.” He added that Nanolumens’ Nixel Sequence shows can function at decrease gentle ranges if wanted, permitting operators to remain inside their energy budgets and hold their power prices beneath tight management.

The takeaway: the versatile Nixel Sequence shows made by Nanolumens are meant to be fiscally sensible to purchase and function, and promotionally sensible to make use of to draw and retain paying friends. That is why these shows’ use of True Curve know-how is only one component of their complete story, and simply certainly one of many advantages that the corporate hopes to ship to amusement parks and sights operators.

The selection of prime operators

Within the sights trade, NDAs are a reality of life and Nelson is reticent in terms of stating which operators are utilizing these distinctive shows. Nevertheless he does say “we’re doing work with the largest theme park corporations on this planet, which implies that they belief us. We’ve completed some distinctive purposes for them. And we’ve completed so whereas assembly all of their security specs, which may be very stringent. That is why you will note Nanolumens’ Nixel Sequence shows curving across the partitions and ceilings of the world’s finest rides/sights and turning up in additional areas with every passing week,” says Nelson.

Nanolumens shows can be on exhibit on the Electrosonic sales space on the 2022 IAAPA Expo in Orlando, Florida, November 15-18. Go to www.nanolumens.com. • • •