We’ve seen quite a lot of building-sized televisions — just like the 80,000-square-foot ceiling screen in Beijing , or that record-breaking monstrosity that the Cowboys installed in Dallas — but those single-dimension LCD’s don’t have anything in this “5D” cube opening on Friday. Comprised of 156 Sharp 60-inch HD displays, the 5D Miracle Tour can only be found at Huis Ten Bosch, a “residential-style resort built after a medieval 17th-century Dutch town” located in Sasebo City, Japan. The original attraction accommodates 32 guests at a time, and contains one main front screen, surrounded by additional panels at the top, bottom, left and right. Lasting eight minutes, the tour presents the tale of a mermaid named Sirena, though content will occasionally change — given the transient nature of mermaids, obviously. We’ve only been capable of dream of the trendy-day curiosities we’d encounter while visiting 17th-century Holland, but we certainly hope this magical place won’t elude us a better time we’re near Nagasaki.
New Image Attraction Surrounds Visitors in Front, Above, Below, and on Both Sides
Sharp Corporation is providing the theme park of Huis Ten Bosch Co., Ltd. (Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan; President & CEO: Hideo Sawada) with a multi-screen display system. Comprising a big front screen surrounded by screens at the top, bottom, left, and right, the system engulfs visitors on five sides with detailed life-like images in a brand new form of image space. The attraction, called the 5D Miracle Tour, will open on April 29, 2011.
This multi-screen display system has a complete of 156 units of the PN-V601 60-inch LCD monitor configured in five surfaces: a front wall, ceiling and floor (36 monitors each) and left and right walls (24 monitors each). As a result of small system frame width between neighboring monitors, visitors are surrounded by huge, seamless displays from 200 to 300-plus inches wide in front, above, below, and on all sides. A picture transmission system controls each of the LCD monitors to provide visitors an entire new visual experience of imagery which might be bright, detailed, and life-like.
Overview of Multi-Screen Display System at Huis Ten Bosch
Attraction name: 5D Miracle Tour (inside the Thriller Fantasy Museum area)
Open to public: April 29, 2011 (Friday, Japanese public holiday)
Image content: Sirena – Mermaid Legend*
(Length: Approx. 8 minutes; original story in accordance with a mermaid legend from Saipan)
System and technology: PN-V601 60-inch LCD monitors (156 units)
Image transmission system
*Content will change every so often.
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