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Internationale Funfausstellung, Berlin
Set designer Peter Roth, the man responsible for a number of ARD shows in Germany, wanted to create something original for the network other than traditional projection and cube systems, and the show title Tele Visionen also implied the need for a modern set.

Unicity Networks Convention
Using a 70-foot Opera Cyc, a massive backdrop made of fabric, Image Technical Services projected larger-than-life video and graphics to an international audience of nearly 3,000 attending this year's Unicity Network's North American National Convention. Unicity Network is a nutritional products manufacturer and distributor.

Internet Security Systems
Tokyo
Hoffman has just completed the construction and installation of a 4WITM ("Four Wall In") turnkey control room solution for Internet Security Systems, Inc. at their Security Operations Center (SOC) in Tokyo, Japan. ISS is a provider of total information security management for networks, servers, applications and desktops based on the company's SAFEsuite security management platform. They have offices in Atlanta, Georgia, Belgium and Tokyo.

Mystics Bigger Than Life on Giant LED Videoboard

AV in sports venues is getting more sophisticated all the time. High-tech electronics are more than ever playing an important role in increasing crowd enthusiasm for the home team. Hornet Animation recently completed animated content for the center-hung videoboard and other LED arena signage boards for the Capital Arena where the WNBA Washington Mystics perform.

Making an Outdoor Club for Warner Brothers' Swordfish Screening
"This was such a unique project and a very interesting way to make a public spectacle out of a private gathering," said Michael Halper, Scharff-Weisberg VP of staging.

Indiana's Wayne Township Installs 200 Projectors
Dukane's Projectors in Elementary, High Schools
The focal point of the Dukane projectors is the Wayne School District developed, "PresenStation". The PresenStation system provides each classroom with a ceiling mounted data projector receiving its video and data sources from a specially constructed desk containing a laptop, video network connected VCR, and a document camera.

84" MEDIAWALL SOLUTION
City of Grand Rapids Traffic Management Center
The system is completely custom-designed to the customer's request. It involves a central, 84" display, bookended by twin 27" monitors (of two different model types). Only the monitor glass is visible from behind the Formica finished panels for an exceptionally "clean" appearance.

Installing “The Amish Experience”
By Chuck Gloman
Complete with a multimedia theater experience on Amish life, this visitor’s center gives guests a vivid taste of Pennsylvania traditionalism.

Reebok World Headquarters
Canton, MA
With the technology cleanly tucked away when not in use, the simple lines of Reebok's executive boardroom remain unhampered.

GM Hollywood Design Studio
Southern California

Work[place] 2010
Denver, Colorado
The lines between architecture, design, and technology become blurred at Work [place] 2010, which opened in downtown Denver in April.

AV Systems a Hit at Two New Ballparks

When a natural disaster or terrorist threat strikes South Florida, the Office of Emergency Management springs into action. To ensure that critical information is rapidly updated, OEM needed a software system that could display immediate changes. OEM turned toScala's InfoChannel 200 software to continuously update information without service interruptions.

Emerson is one of the best known companies in the world, with products for telecommunications, electronics, heating, ventilating and air conditioning, and process controls. With offices, plants and other facilities around the world, Emerson developed a state-of-the-art corporate conference center near its St. Louis, Missouri headquarters for employees to come together for meetings.

Captivate Network Enlivens Elevator Rides
Chicago, Illinois.
by Denise Harrison
I would ask why no one thought of it sooner -- no doubt someone did. But now someone has gotten it off the ground, so to speak.

Federal Aviation Administration
Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta's Terminal Radar Approach Control Center sees an average of 3,200 flights a day and a yearly total exceeding a million.

54th Presidential Inauguration
Washington, D.C.
by Denise Harrison
Current Events International (CEI) in Jessup, MD was the official technical services provider for many of the 54th Presidential Inaugural events. Those included nine inaugural balls, three candlelight dinners, the VP Elect's Salute to Veterans Event, the 1st Lady's Salute to American Authors and the Prayer Service at the National Cathedral.
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December 13, 2000

November 29, 2000
I want to go home, or away is ok
Andersen Consulting
One Freedom Square, Reston, Virginia
By Gary Kayye, CTS
What if you're a company with over 10,000 employees? What if your employees are ALWAYS on the road and come in to any given regional office for only a few weeks and never the same office twice?

November 21, 2000
NBC Soap Fan Fest
Orlando. Florida
ORLANDO, Fla. - The recent inaugural NBC Soap Fan Fest was a highly-publicized event, sure to be widely attended. Universal Studios needed A/V that would be big enough to impress yet with quality enough to display images in the daylight at the Universal Resorts Islands of Adventure setting.

November 15, 2000
Television Studio for Morningstar, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois
CHICAGO -- Morningstar Inc., a provider of stock, and mutual fund investment information, recently got a new in-house television studio, installed by Production Craft, Inc.

November 8, 2000
Cisco Internet Home in San Jose, California
The Cisco Internet Home Briefing Center shows how the home of the not-so-distant future can be wired. Starting with an e-Control system and touchpanels from Crestron Electronics, this demonstration home, which is not open to the public, shows videoconferencing, multi-player gaming, video on demand and home management.

November 1, 2000
University of Virginia Business School
How can universities better prepare graduates for the real world? Here is one example from the University of Virginia where technology is used in the classroom to mirror a typical workplace.

October 25, 2000
INSIGHT RESEARCH, INC. "POWERS UP"
Oct. 25, 2000 -- Insight Research, Inc.has just completed a $1.3 million upgrade of the Alabama Control Center (ACC) for Alabama Power Company. The ACC was originally constructed approximately eight years ago and originally equipped with CRT projectors. The new upgrade consists of four banks of three 84"x 60" rear projection screens, which are used to monitor and control the various aspects of electric power generation and distribution. The integrated system utilized Insight's own display wall controller, MAGIC.

October 18, 2000
ImageVISION 3D Kiosk
Image Technical Services
Now showing: Association of the US Army annual convention on October 16-18

|ImageVISON 3D Kiosk delivers the message with 3D without the need for special glasses. 18" high, life-like images appear to float in mid-air in front of the screen.

Lobby, Chicago Board of Trade, LaSalle Street, Chicago

ImageVISION 3D Kiosk
Image Technical Services, Creative Communication Division
Now showing: Association of the US Army annual convention on October 16-18, 2000 at the Washington D.C. Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Cotillion Ballroom.

The Olympics closing ceremonies.

Olympics.com (Click on slideshow highlights for terrific images)
Sun Times
CBS Sportsline.com
Yahoo.com
Waterways.com

Crabtree Valley Mall

September, 2000 -- Raleigh, NC -- Start-up Mall TV! Inc. launched a new in-mall advertising system at the Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh, NC, the single largest out-of-home gathering place in the region, reaching approximately 11.5 million shoppers.

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