QuBits provide excursion to the edge of the universe

QuVIS has announced the installation of its QuBit EL servers by Spitz for North America's largest digital dome within the interactive children's museum, Papalote Museo Del Niño in Mexico City, Mexico.
Spitz, the leading manufacturer of planetarium systems and a pioneer of immersive video systems, provided the dome and theatre integration, as well as projection system design, automation, and sound system to the domodigital-Banamex Theater.
Beneath the 23-meter diameter, 165 degree dome, 269 spectators are transported 1,500 light-years to the Orion Nebula to learn about the formation of the stars in ‘Passport to the Universe’. Images of the universe provided by NASA and the European Space Agency are combined to create a 19-minute, high definition CGI program produced by the Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History.
The video content comprises nearly 5.5 million pixels and more than 16 million colours and offers some of the most spectacular images of the cosmos to truly immerse the audience in the imagery. Spitz's ATM-4 theatre automation system uses nine synchronized QuBit ELs to supply high resolution graphics to nine Barco SLM R10 10,000-lumen Galaxy WARP projectors configured to Spitz's ElectricSky specification.
Spitz selected QuBit EL for its ability to accurately sync multiple units, display image quality that is unsurpassed and efficiently manage the media.
"The QuVIS servers feature excellent visual quality with extremely efficient compression, allowing more content storage," commented Mark Jarvis, director of systems engineering for Spitz. The DLP projectors were chosen over the typically used CRTs because they provide higher brightness and colour saturation.”
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