Gaming, Red Vs Blue Gets IMAX Treatment

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday June 23, 2004 @10:54AM from the extremely-large dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California will host its third annual Maxgames videogame tournament on Friday, July 23. Finalists on several of the games will duke it out for the championship on the museum's Giant Dome Screen [82 feet in diameter, and covering 12,000 square feet] and its 13,000 watt, 44 speaker sound system. The tournament will also feature two of the creators of the well-known Red vs. Blue machinima series, who will talk about the series during the day, and then show episodes on the Giant Dome Screen during the evening. Bungie will also provide a hi-res version of their nine-minute trailer for the upcoming Halo 2." Plus, any tournament which has a Super Monkey Ball 2 Monkey Target competition is a friend of ours.

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Re:Slightly Confusing by thestray · 2004-06-23 13:00 · Score: 5, Informative

Hey all,
I'm helping The Tech get the word out about the tournament. To answer your question, the players sit roughly in the middle of the theater with their controllers. The console is hooked into a 5,000 lumen projector that projects onto the Giant Dome Screen.
Here's a good shot of the theater: Giant Dome Screen
If you have any other questions, I'll do my best to answer them.
Jim
Pixellation hasn't been an issue by thestray · 2004-06-24 02:03 · Score: 2, Informative

Specifically for Maxgames, The Tech contracts with Billingsly & Brown, Inc. to prove a Digital Light Processing projector shining a minimum of 5000 ANSI lumens onto the Giant Dome Screen.
The videogame image is about 40'x60' and is remarkably crisp. I'm pretty sure we'll be running RvB off of a DVD.
BTW, the sound is amazing.
Jim