The Vegas Golden Knights making news with staggering pre-game projection mapping presentations during the week of InfoComm 2018 made a nice backdrop for talking about Christie Mystique Install updates and Christie Guardian with Christie senior solutions manager Curtis Mutter.
Christie, which as Mutter points out was extremely focused on solutions that help integration firms create amazing experiences for their customers, announced several updates to its arsenal of projection mapping tools.
Watch Mutter’s CI video interview above.
Christie Mytique Install Updates
[related]“This year at the show we’re launching Christie Mystique 2.0,” says Mutter. It’s a “camera-based alignment system designed to calibrate and aline multiple projectors.”
It can be used for any type of display using Christie’s projection systems – anything from a simple blending of two projectors onto a flat wall to a complex Vegas Golden Knight-style presentation.
“What we’re showing this year is a brand new technology that brings our camera-based alignments to 3-D projection mapping.
“So if you’re delivering mapping onto a complex building or piece of architecture or a car and you don’t quite know how to align that with those projectors, we can help with a camera-based solution to automate that process. It’s really designed to help the operators calibrate that system and keep it aligned.”
Christie Guardian
Christie Mystique Install is available in four editions catered to customers’ needs — “all meeting criteria so we would work with our customers to figure out the best fit for their application,” Mutter explains.
“If something gets bumped or somebody trips over a projector or something is causing the projector to drift and the quality starts to degrade, we can automatically correct it,” says Christie’s Mutter.
The Mystique Install – Essentials Edition and Mystique Install – Pro Venue Edition features Christie Guardian, a solution announced at InfoComm 2018 that can correct projector alignment even when content is playing.
Traditionally, a camera-based alignment solution works by shining structured light patterns onto a surface that get captured back into the system through the camera, Mutter explains.
The results can be amazing, but what happens if the alignment somehow shifts during the presentation?
With Guardian, “we’re constantly watching the alignment even as the show is running, so if something gets bumped or somebody trips over a projector or something is causing the projector to drift and the quality starts to degrade, we can automatically correct it so your audience is never going to know,” Mutter says.
“It really changes the way we are doing multi projector alignment.”
