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giant screens
From a skyscraper’s lights that can be controlled by passers by, to the legendary rock set design of Mark Fisher and Jonathan Park here are some examples of the worlds largest screens. Vote for your faves.
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"The screen employs Mitsubishi’s Aurora Vision LED technology and measures 11.2 meters (37 feet) x 66.4 meters (218 feet), giving it a surface area of 744 square meters (8,000+ square feet), or the equivalent of 3 tennis courts."
Currently the worlds largest moving holographic image. Which is larger than the one from the original Star Wars movie.
If you want to burn through as many Watts as Al Gore, here's how to do it. One 3o inch and 5 20 inch displays.
Designed by (my onetime boss) Rock Set designer Mark Fisher, U2s stadium sets have traditionally employed giant projection screens since the Zoo TV tour. For the Vertigo tour, screens consisted of Barco MiSPHERE and custom outdoor screens developed by Innovative Designs. The large central screen could be opened and lowered throughout the show as needed.
In June 2007, for a dance music event, the GMEX installed a vast 130 foot wide screen, with eight times higher resolution than HD.
For the Space50 anniversary The massive Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope was turned into a giant outdoor screen, 150 feet across.
In celebration of the Nuit Blanche art festival in Paris, in 2002. Tower T2 of the Bibliothèque nationale de France was transformed into a giant screen The 520 pixel display, using a matrix of 20 x 26 of the building's windows — resulting in a giant screen having an area of 3370 square meters.
The entire surface of this building is covered in circular lights to create a massive screen.
A booth at the bottom of this skyscraper allows passers by to control its lighting as pixels in a giant screen.
Set Designers Mark Fisher and Jonathan Park made their name designing giant inflatable structures for Pink Floyd. The original Wall tour was the first examples of large scale set design for rock concerts.<p /><p />When a special concert was later given after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a fabricated scenic Wall provided a backdrop for truly giant projections.
Miami Dolphins stadium screen. 50 ft high and 137 ft across, HD screen by Daktronics.
Currently the world's biggest movie theater screen, at 97 feet high by 117 feet wide and it takes a 15,000 watt projector.
X3D are currently developing a glasses free 3d display system that is 15 feet diagonal, which will be the worlds largest of its type.





