HIVE powers Eric Prydz Holosphere 2.0 at Ibiza residency

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10 July 2025

HIVE powers Eric Prydz Holosphere 2.0 at Ibiza residency

Beeblade Nexus delivers flawless 4K60 video mapped onto a transparent spherical LED stage for Ibiza’s biggest ever show at [UNVRS] superclub

When Eric Prydz returned to Ibiza with Holosphere 2.0, fans knew they were in for something extraordinary. Staged weekly throughout the season at the brand-new [UNVRS] superclub, Holosphere 2.0 has been billed as Ibiza’s biggest ever show production – a jaw-dropping combination of bespoke 3D holographic effects, original animation and a completely custom-built transparent LED sphere. 

As Eric Prydz puts it: 

“We’ve waited six years for this, not because we wanted to, but because we had to. The technology needed to catch up with our vision, as every single part of Holosphere 2.0 is bespoke and original. This is what we always dreamed of.”

Eric Prydz

For Prydz’s creative team, pushing boundaries is non-negotiable – but turning that vision into reality demanded rock-solid technology behind the scenes, which is exactly what HIVE delivered.

A long-standing creative partnership

The founders of HIVE have worked with Eric Prydz for over 14 years – a testament to mutual trust, technical innovation and a shared ambition to redefine what’s possible in live entertainment. From early concept design to final execution, HIVE’s role has been integral, providing the advanced media server technology needed to make Holosphere 2.0 a reality.

“This show is the result of years of collaboration and relentless innovation. We’ve worked alongside Eric’s team for well over a decade. For Holosphere 2.0, the bar was higher than ever – and it was an honour to be at the grand opening at [UNVRS] and witness the incredible creativity and technical excellence of the entire team.” 

Mark Calvert, CEO at HIVE

Pushing the limits in immersive live shows

Holosphere 2.0 is a highly complex 3D pixel mapping project centred around a custom-designed transparent LED sphere by PRG Projects – widely regarded as one of the most technically ambitious touring setups ever created.

The show runs exclusively at [UNVRS], The Night League’s new ‘hyperclub’ in Ibiza. Every Monday, the venue transforms from an empty canvas into a sci-fi spectacle: the entire sphere and over 400 lighting fixtures and lasers are rigged from scratch in the morning, rehearsed by night and de-rigged the next morning – ready for the next show to roll in.

To meet this demanding schedule, every component had to be tour-grade: compact, robust, easy to set up and capable of delivering flawless, frame-accurate playback night after night.

Perfect sync for a one-of-a-kind spherical LED sphere

To handle these demands, HIVE supplied its flagship Beeblade Nexus media engines housed in dual Nucleus chassis. A total of four Nexus units were deployed – two live and two backup – delivering a compact, rugged touring system capable of playing flawless 4K60 video mapped onto a complex spherical LED sphere with sub-pixel precision. The entire setup stays perfectly in sync with timecoded content while live MIDI control gives the creative team real-time flexibility.

Dave Green, CTO at HIVE, explains:

“Delivering perfectly smooth 4K60 video onto a transparent spherically mapped LED sphere is a significant technical challenge. Each pixel had to be mapped with sub-pixel accuracy from an equirectangular source, all while staying locked to timecode and reacting to live MIDI inputs. This is exactly the kind of technical challenge we built Beeblade Nexus for – giving creators total confidence, no matter how complex the show.”

Dave Green, CTO at HIVE

Designed for rapid builds and de-rigs, Nexus combines robust hardware with intuitive software the crew knows inside out – guaranteeing frame-accurate sync and flawless performance throughout the run.

Liam Tomaszewski, Creative Director for Holosphere 2.0, says:

“This show has only recently become technically possible, and Beeblade Nexus played a huge part in making it happen. We’ve trusted the HIVE team for years because they deliver on the things that really matter for a project like this: absolute reliability, frame accuracy and an intuitive software environment our crew knows inside out.

Holosphere 2.0 pushes immersive live experience to the limit and HIVE’s technology gives us the freedom to create without compromise.”

Liam Tomaszewski, Creative Director for Holosphere 2.0

A new benchmark for live production

Every element of Holosphere 2.0 has been custom-built to deliver a uniquely immersive experience. The result is a feature-length performance blending multi-dimensional visuals, stunning light shows and precise holographic illusions – all perfectly synced by HIVE’s servers.

Romain Pissenem, founder of High Scream and show producer at [UNVRS], adds:

“The engineering behind the sphere is already a milestone, but what truly brings it to life is the power of the HIVE system. The combination of Liam [Tomaszewski]’s visionary content design and the Beeblade Nexus’s capabilities creates a show that feels alive in a way audiences have never seen before.”

An unforgettable residency

Running for 14 weeks until the closing night on 1st September, Holosphere 2.0 has set a new benchmark for Ibiza’s nightlife and for immersive touring shows globally. For HIVE, it’s another proof point of what happens when innovative hardware, smart software and bold creative ambition come together.

Mark Calvert concludes:

“Holosphere 2.0 proves what’s possible when technology empowers vision. It’s been a privilege for the HIVE team to stand alongside Eric, Michael, Liam, Mattie, Elliot, Pete and PRG Projects.”

HIVE takes flight with Arcadia’s Dragonfly at Glastonbury Festival

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HIVE takes flight with Arcadia’s Dragonfly at Glastonbury Festival

A striking fusion of technology, art and engineering, powered by HIVE’s cutting-edge software and ultra-compact Beeblade Nexus media servers.

Glastonbury Festival 2025 played host to the spectacular return of one of Arcadia’s most iconic installations – the Dragonfly. Towering above crowds in the Arcadia field, the 30-metre-long sculpture is built around a repurposed military helicopter, transformed into a living, breathing audiovisual creature brought to life with projection, LED and lighting in perfect harmony.

This year marked HIVE’s first full deployment on the Dragonfly. The project – a collaboration between Arcadia, Cucumber Productions, Video Illusions and content creators Astral Projekt – pushed the boundaries of projection mapping and LED playback. At its core: HIVE’s new Beeblade Nexus media engines and supporting suite of advanced software tools, designed for projects where creativity meets complexity.

A Radically Challenging Canvas

The Dragonfly’s body – a decommissioned Sea King helicopter – presented a highly unusual projection surface. Irregular curves, protruding elements and a compact footprint made conventional video mapping techniques difficult. The addition of LED “eyes” and face illumination brought further creative demands, requiring tight synchronisation between projection, lighting and real-time visuals.

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Replacing a previously rack-based system, HIVE delivered a lightweight, energy-efficient and more affordable alternative – deploying six Beeblade Nexus units housed in three ruggedised Nucleus enclosures. These were distributed across projection towers on either side of the structure and within the Dragonfly’s head. 

“With HIVE, we were able to replace an energy-hungry server stack with compact players that delivered the same, if not more, capability – but using far less power and at around a fifth of the cost.”

Dave Green, HIVE CTO

This efficiency aligned perfectly with Arcadia’s sustainability ethos: the Dragonfly is powered entirely by renewable energy provided by Grid Faeries – making HIVE’s low-power architecture the perfect fit for a large-scale show leading the way in green festival production.

Each Nexus board supported dual 4K NDI inputs with alpha layers – enabling complex video layering and transparency effects. This was essential to manage the real-time feeds created in Unity and TouchDesigner by Astral Projekt, seamlessly blended with a pre-rendered, time-coded 10-minute show sequence dubbed the ‘Arcadia Dragonfly Show’.

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Software that breaks new ground

What truly set this installation apart was HIVE’s software – particularly its Obj Map and advanced mapping tools. The team combined multiple techniques to handle the diverse demands of the design:

  • Obj Map Tool – mapped content onto the hexagonal LED “eyes” with spherical accuracy, importing UV-mapped geometry files created in Blender.
  • Warp Grid Tool – deployed for real-time warping and projection mapping onto the fuselage and tail.
  • Pixel Map Page – a new feature used to control Art-Net LED fixtures for the Dragonfly’s facial illumination.
  • Timecode Support – HIVE’s rock-solid timecode feature tied the Dragonfly’s 10-minute programmed sequence together, effortlessly playing back pre-rendered animation to the LED “eyes” and all projection surfaces.
HIVE’s advanced Obj Map tool

HIVE’s advanced Obj Map tool mapped over 200 individual LED panels across the Dragonfly’s spherical “eyes”, enabling pixel-perfect alignment on a highly complex curved surface. This combination of tools – normally reserved for big-budget media systems – is now far more accessible thanks to HIVE’s streamlined, user-friendly platform.

Seamless integration, lasting impact

From day one, HIVE worked closely with Arcadia’s technical production team and long-time partners Cucumber Productions and Video Illusions to align the technology with Arcadia’s creative vision. The system handled both the pre-programmed show and real-time content flawlessly throughout the festival weekend – all powered by renewable energy from Grid Faeries and minimal kit.

Behind the scenes

Summing up the collaboration,  Dave Green said:

“It was a real showcase of what HIVE can do – as a platform, as a product and as a team. I’m proud of the result and grateful to our partners for trusting us with such an ambitious piece. It’s still probably one of my favourite visual installations of all time. It just looks otherworldly – like something from an alien planet.”

Dave Green, HIVE CTO

Ben Vaughan added:

“I couldn’t have been happier with how things have gone. As well as making the eyes on the Dragonfly, I was lucky enough to fill the role of Head of Video on the Arcadia stage. This year, I specced HIVE media players and I couldn’t be happier with how things have gone – in no small part thanks to the team there. Huge respect to Mark Calvert, Dave Green and Nigel Sadler for making everything run so smoothly.”

Ben Vaughan, Director at Cucumber Productions

Cyrus Bozorgmehr added:

“It was great to have a rock-solid media server setup at FOH, running dual 4K NDI feeds with alpha, delivering content smoothly and consistently every night. The lightweight equipment meant it was installed quickly with a minimal footprint, avoiding the usual load-out and truck logistics you’d expect with traditional server stacks.

The HIVE system ran content seamlessly to our eight double-stacked projectors, keeping everything precisely mapped and aligned in a busy 360-degree environment. It also powered our custom transparent LED video screen – made of over 200 tessellating hexagon panels – which formed the head of the Dragonfly and the DJ booth. Dave Green and Nigel Sadler from HIVE were great to work with, and it was a pleasure to have them on board.”

Cyrus Bozorgmehr, Head of Creative Comms at Arcadia

Looking ahead, HIVE looks forward to collaborating on future editions of the Dragonfly and joining forces again in Glastonbury 2027.

* Header image –  © Chris Cooper

Arcadia Dragonfly Team

HIVE Powers Tutankhamun: The Immersive Exhibition in London

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HIVE Powers Tutankhamun: The Immersive Exhibition in London

An immersive 360-degree experience brought to life through precision engineering, cutting-edge technology and seamless collaboration.

Tutankhamun: The Immersive Exhibition opened at ExCeL London in March 2025, inviting visitors to step inside the story of the boy king in a spectacular reimagining of Ancient Egypt. Produced by FKP Scorpio Entertainment and created by Madrid Artes Digitales (MAD), the 26,000 square foot experience blends archaeology, storytelling and immersive technology to astonishing effect.

At the heart of the show is a towering 8-metre-high, 360-degree projection-mapped environment – an engineering feat designed to transport audiences to a richly detailed ancient world. This central immersive space, known as the “black box,” was designed and installed by Belgian multimedia specialists Painting with Light (PWL), with projection powered by Epson and media playback delivered by Hive’s high-performance Beeblade system.

From the outset, the project came with an ambitious timeline. PWL had just under four months to design, build, install and commission the black box for opening night – a full-scale immersive theatre powered by 44 Epson projectors and featuring spatial audio, projection mapping and flawless synchronisation. The venue presented its own challenges, including uneven flooring, changing ceiling heights and limited build time, requiring bespoke adaptation. With multiple international partners involved, the pressure was on to deliver a fully integrated solution that would not only wow audiences but also set a standard for future touring venues.

Hive’s Beeblade Pluto media servers, housed in three compact Beehive enclosures, served as the backbone of the experience. Known for their plug-and-play reliability, perfect synronicisation across multiple outputs using Beesync, easy to use software and scalable, low-power architecture, Hive’s systems were chosen for their ability to perform seamlessly day in, day out. The projection canvas covered more than 1,200 square metres, with content playing across massive ultra-wide resolutions and 30fps frame rates. The result was a seamless visual journey through ancient tombs, temples and landscapes – rendered in stunning clarity and synchronised to an immersive 3D audio environment. 

Adding to the technical achievement was the speed and precision of the calibration process. VIOSO, known for their auto-alignment technology, calibrated all 44 projectors onsite in just two days. Their camera-based solution, newly integrated with Hive’s playback system, allowed for pixel-perfect warping and blending with the added benefit of one-touch recalibration should any projector shift over time. The success of this integration was particularly rewarding for the team, marking a new benchmark in efficient setup for large-scale immersive projects.

Despite the complexity of the installation, the system proved reliable under pressure. When a power outage struck during a live show, PWL’s technical team responded instantly – remotely diagnosing the issue and guiding on-site personnel to a solution within hours, ensuring the exhibition continued with minimal disruption.

The London run is the latest in a string of international showings for the exhibition, which has already captivated over 1.8 million visitors across twelve cities including Madrid and Cairo. But it’s also the first time the new, modular black box format has been deployed – designed specifically for ease of repeat use as the experience tours new markets. 

Peter van Bilsen, strategic director at PWL, praised the collaboration:

Working with Hive on Tutankhamun: The Immersive Exhibition was a true example of how the right technology and teamwork can deliver exceptional results under pressure. Hive’s media server proved to be reliable and perfectly suited to the fast turnaround. We’re proud of the outcome and of the great collaboration that got us there.

Peter van Bilsen, strategic director 

Running until 29 June 2025, the London edition of Tutankhamun: The Immersive Exhibition continues to attract audiences of all ages. With technology and storytelling working in harmony, it stands as a benchmark for what’s possible when the right partners come together – and a template for future immersive experiences to follow.

Working at London’s new immersive venue, ImmerseLDN, was a fantastic experience. This project brought together expert teams – from PWL’s seamless install to Epson’s projection, VIOSO’s calibration and MAD’s storytelling. We’re proud Hive technology helped power such a loved attraction. Huge thanks to PWL for their enthusiasm towards Hive – we’re excited for what’s next.

Mark Calvert, co founder @ HIVE

Luna Park Welcomes the Mythical Dream Circus

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23 January 2024

Luna Park Welcomes the Mythical Dream Circus

To have an in-depth understanding of Luna Park Dream Circus commission please come and meet the Hive team at the ISE Trade Show, Barcelona on stand 5D200, where we will be showcasing our new Beehive product, and our full product ecosystem. 

Sydney’s 120-year-old Luna Park recently reinvented itself with the brand-new, $15 million immersive attraction Dream Circus. 

Combining artistic creativity with cutting-edge technology, Dream Circus takes guests on a captivating journey through enchanting, hallucinatory visuals brought to life by blockbuster surround sound, holographic innovations and 360º projection.

Enhanced by Hive’s product ecosystem, the media control specialists offered the perfect solution for the world-first attraction. 

Dream Circus runs on 32 Pluto Beeblades that are housed in Hive’s new 5U Beehive chassis, alongside 10 Beebox media players. Designed by immersive storytellers Artists in Motion and technically conceived by TDC Australia, the solution powers mythical video through Barco projectors and LED screens inside the park’s existing 3,000 sq metre Big Top building.

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An evolution in media control, the Pluto Beeblade improves the way visual experiences can be powered. Essential to any large-scale creative video project, it achieves stunning, silky smooth 8K media playback and 4K output.

The synergy between the various elements of the Hive ecosystem have achieved a spectacular show that blurs the line between reality and fantasy.

Michael Hassett at TDC, Sydney was eager to deploy the Hive Beeblade range within his Luna Park project. The proven high performance of the Beeblades and product affordability aligned perfectly with the already ambitious ideas of the project.

Mark Calvert, co-founder at Hive

Mark continues “The Beehive enabled TDC to deploy a traditional rack-room setup to drive the Barco video projectors, and where possible, Beeboxes were deployed to sit next to display technology site wide. Hive now has two successful projects in Australia with BBC Earth Project & Luna Park, and we remain grateful of the trust and confidence TDC has in our product range, in their market.”

Now a permanent fixture at Luna Park, Dream Circus delivers a multi-layered adventure to the iconic family attraction – setting the bar for theme parks of the future that demand immersive thrills beyond the classic roller coaster.

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TDC is the technology and technologist provider for Dream Circus at Luna Park in Sydney.

HIVE brings wonders of our planet to life

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9 November 2023

HIVE brings wonders of our planet to life

BeeBlade and BeeBox power immersive journey through the natural world with David Attenborough, at BBC Earth Experience Melbourne.  

BBC Earth Experience is an immersive exhibition that promises to transport visitors on a journey through the natural world, narrated by none other than the legendary David Attenborough.  

Following the popularity of the inaugural BBC Earth Experience in London, the attraction has recently opened a second site at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. HIVE’s BeeBlade and BeeBox products were chosen to bring this captivating experience to life through seamless media playback.

“We are introducing a new technological era into the industry with the BeeBlade series, and when TDC in Australia contacted HIVE for the BBC Earth Experience in Melbourne we could not have been any more excited,” recalls Mark Calvert, Co-Founder at HIVE. “The natural world, preserving it and the beautiful nature documentaries of David Attenborough have inspired the entire HIVE team for many years.”

Produced in collaboration with Moon Eye Productions, Live Nation and BBC Studios, the BBC Earth Experience consists of eight rooms of digital art that guide visitors through Earth’s diverse ecosystems across seven continents. Visitors embark on a 360-degree audio-visual adventure, taking them deep into the heart of our planet’s most spectacular landscapes. The experience is played out across dynamic multi-angle screens, showcasing both new and existing footage from the ‘Seven Worlds, One Planet’ series.

What sets Melbourne’s BBC Earth Experience apart is the playback technology used for this installation. Leading Australian video technology and production supplier, TDC, harnessed an innovative and cost-effective HIVE media server solution to power the project.

Launched earlier this year, BeeBlade is a compact media engine that seamlessly integrates with video projectors and display technology through Intel’s Smart Display Module (SDM) slot, thus eliminating the need for extensive cabling. The Melbourne exhibit is equipped with 70 Panasonic projectors, with 55 creating the main immersive space, 49 of which are powered by BeeBlade. The remaining six utilise HIVE’s BeeBox to achieve 4K clarity.

The BeeBlade and BeeBox don’t just represent technological advancements; they are harbingers of a new, greener, and more efficient era in digital art installations. This transformative approach is not just a disruption in the media server space; it’s an evolutionary leap, saving time, money and the planet.

Michael Hassett Managing Director, TDC.

Panasonic echoed these sentiments on savings, as Tony Molloy, European Sales Manager at Panasonic Business Europe confirms: “In applications such as this, having a system where you can combine the projectors and media servers together in the same location saves costs from an installation perspective.”

Indeed, both BeeBlade and BeeBox represent a shift in the media server market and contribute to a greener, more eco-conscious future in digital art installations. Furthermore, the content is delivered using HIVE’s proprietary BeeSync software, ensuring perfect synchronisation of all imagery.

“The BBC Earth Experience is the perfect playground for our range of BeeBlade products,” concludes Calvert. “They align with the environmental narrative, they meet strict guidelines from the BBC to cut CO2 emissions, and most importantly they provide rock solid reliable playback to the production team, day in, day out. Our team are all immensely proud of the BBC Earth Experience, and I am eternally grateful for their ongoing support and dedication to our brighter vision to revolutionise video playback for the industry we love.”

BBC Earth Experience

Following the success of the inaugural BBC Earth Experience in London, which opened in March, the attraction has been faithfully reproduced in Melbourne, with the footprint of the London set-up identically recreated inside the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
 
Produced in partnership with Moon Eye Productions, Live Nation and BBC Studios, the Experience opened in October and features eight rooms of digital art, with visitors taken on a journey through the natural world which showcases the diversity of the seven continents on an epic scale, all narrated by David Attenborough.
 
The attraction provides an unparalleled immersive experience, allowing visitors to embark on a 360-degree audio-visual exploration of Earth’s diverse ecosystems. All achieved through dynamic multi-angle screens, deploying the latest digital screen technology to project both new and existing footage from the BBC series ‘Seven Worlds, One Planet’.


 
While the experience’s layout in Melbourne is the same as the 1608 sq m venue assembled in London, some of the technology used is vastly different. Strikingly, the Melbourne chapter introduces a twist in the core technological tale.
 
TDC, a leading supplier of video technology and production in Australia, has adopted an innovative, cost-efficient HIVE media server solution for the project.
 
Spearheaded by TDC Managing Director Michael Hassett, the move puts HIVE in the spotlight as its new product Beeblade – a revolutionary, compact media engine that integrates seamlessly into video projectors and display technology via an Intel SDM (Smart Display Module) slot – is providing the backbone of the digital playback system.
 
The Melbourne experience boasts 70 Panasonic projectors, with 55 creating the main immersive space. Here, 49 projectors are empowered by the industry first, Beeblade, while the remaining six projectors are complemented with 4K clarity via the HIVE Beebox – a sibling to the Beeblade engines.

The BeeBox provides a chassis for projectors and devices that do not have an SDM card slot. These innovations not only pack a powerful punch in performance but also signify a leap in energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
 
“Having accepted our proposal for using HIVE media servers, Moon Eye Productions brought us in to provide the media engines for this project,” explained Hassett. “We took a great deal of responsibility for that delivery, especially because the HIVE product was not well known to them, given that different media solutions had been used in London.”
 
Hassett’s discovery of HIVE, initially from industry whispers and further impressed by their involvement in London’s Frameless project, has led to a synergy and understanding of the simplicity and sophistication of the Beeblade solution. The direct integration with projectors eliminates the need for extensive cabling, reduces both energy usage and project budgets, and ushers in an era of eco-conscious technology.
 
“The SDM technology was something that really interested me,” said Hassett. “I had heard of some development of this, and then when I learned that Panasonic had integrated an SDM slot into some of their projector models – this led me back to looking at HIVE as the product for this BBC Earth Experience project.
 

“The Beeblade and Beebox don’t just represent technological advancements; they are harbingers of a new, greener, and more efficient era in digital art installations. This transformative approach is not just a disruption in the media server space; it’s an evolutionary leap, saving time, money, and the planet.”

Michael Hassett, TDC Managing Director


Hassett’s growing confidence in this technical innovation underscores its potential to redefine future projects for them, and their clients.
 
“The price point is also very favourable,” he continued, “and while the HIVE products might not have the ‘bells and whistles’ offered by other solutions – for this and other projects, we don’t always need them. It sometimes just requires good, reliable, high resolution playback.”
 
The HIVE products were sold to Moon Eye Productions and then installed directly into the projectors at Panasonic Europe’s facility in Wiesbaden, Germany. From there, they were delivered to Melbourne for installation, which was undertaken by Faber Audiovisuals.
 
Because it was a new media server system for the project, and the leap of faith to use HIVE was quite large, Hive’s team were directly involved throughout, and worked alongside Moon Eye, Panasonic and TDC, as Mark Calvert, one of HIVE’s co-founders, explained:
 
“When we got involved in the project, we soon realised that HIVE, Moon Eye Productions and the key stakeholders are all based in Europe, so we agreed to build a scale model of the project in our Horsham office,” he said.
 
“This helped connect all the teams involved, the technology, and the reality of what we wanted to achieve, as it built a real connection with the physicality of the project, rather than only pre-visualising it in often forgiving software.”
 
This setup also allowed members of the TDC commissioning team to log in remotely and operate the HIVE system via Team Viewer. Providing a great environment to train and upskill their team during the pre-production phase.
 
From a technical playback perspective, the content stored locally on each Beeblade and Beebox device is delivered using Hive proprietary BeeSync software, which synchronises the HDMI clock over all connected devices.
 
“This software has been developed exclusively by HIVE, and is the essential backbone to the success of the project, and the perfect synchronisation of all imagery displayed,” said Calvert.


 
The Beeblade and Beebox represent a significant development in the media server realm, and Calvert reflects with thanks on Panasonic’s role in helping them realise their compatibility with SDM technology.
 
“We have a good, long-term relationship with Panasonic Europe as they helped us with the development of the Beeblade, working alongside Intel who developed the SDM slot,” he said. “With the need for a huge cable network now removed for this type of project, it helps from an energy saving point of view, as HIVE are trying to align the company with an ethos of shifting to offer as environmentally friendly solutions as possible.”
 
Tony Molloy, European Sales Manager at Panasonic Business Europe, who oversaw the sale of the projectors for the project, said: “We realised that in immersive installations such as this, having a system where you can combine the projectors and media servers together in the same location saves the costs from an installation perspective, and so it is quite a unique development for this industry.
 
“The customer chose Panasonic’s 3-chip DLP technology for this application, with its durability a major selling point in addition to image quality and the overall impression for the end user.”
 
For Hassett and TDC, their role continues after integration to ensure that the servers maintain their performance. “It’s been a big leap of faith, but as the integration went on, I felt more confident in the products every day,” he said. “The products are so good that I have full confidence, and have even now invested further to use HIVE on future projects that we are now working on.”
 
Calvert concluded: “This is a new approach to media servers and while it is intentionally disruptive to the market it is rightfully becoming very popular. The system is easy to use, quick to assemble – because it’s integrated into the projector – and the solution has saved the project significant capital.
 
“The BBC Earth Experience in Melbourne isn’t just another attraction; it’s a revolutionary landmark in digital storytelling. By marrying breath-taking art with ground-breaking technology, it opens a window to a world where nature’s story is told not just through words, but through an immersive, vivid, and unforgettable experience.
 
“This isn’t just a success story for TDC, HIVE, or Moon Eye Productions – it’s a bold new chapter in how we approach immersive experiences today and into the future.”

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12 October 2023

Naturkraft

HIVE’s media playback solutions helped state-of-the-art Danish Museum Naturkraft create a breath-taking 360º video detailing the oil crisis, the green transition, and the future of Danish energy.

The museum used HIVE’s Player_3 media players to tell the story of West Jutland, where wind farms and turbines champion green emissions.

Created in collaboration with renowned design agency Tinker Imagineers, the immersive dome attraction became a canvas for the innovative work of Dutch mills and how the wind turbines of today began to take shape.

Images courtesy of © Flying October / Naturkraft

We’re proud to have our products used for initiatives like this. Not only are the end results spectacular but the subject of sustainability aligned with our own core values here at HIVE.

Mark Calvert, Co-Founder of HIVE.

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Situated in the new Marble Arch Place Complex Venue, Frameless London blends digitalised art, phenomenal creative vision, and cutting-edge entertainment technology to present a cultural attraction like no other. Digital interpretations of 40 masterpieces from 28 artists including Klimt, Monet, Rembrandt and van Gogh lead visitors through the carefully curated spaces; Beyond Reality, Colour in Motion, The World Around Us and the Art of Abstraction.

The project sits at the intersection of the worlds of tech, art, architecture, and experiential events, showcasing iconic works of art as they’ve never been seen before – via immersive, state-of-the-art video projection.

The solution relies on a total of 19 Player_3 HIVE systems – all perfectly synchronized and supported by 4K and 8K Media players and augmented by 50 3-Chip DLP of Panasonic laser projectors, which helped to deliver 479 million pixels and one million lumens.

Utilizing the latest embedded GPUs developed by NVIDIA, HIVE was able to offer Frameless outstanding performance in a small package at an enviable price point, with no compromise on quality. Simon Kentish, Frameless CTO, says: “HIVE’s value for money is amazing in terms of its delivery, its form factor, and its integration with products like Screenberry. It’s right for us, and we’ll be using it moving forward.”

Green reflects on Frameless’ hugely successful reception: “It’s not until the venue opens, and you see the public immersed in the experience, that you really understand what was being created. HIVE is so proud to have worked alongside such experts on a project assembled by a world-class team; the results speak for themselves.”

With special thanks to: Frameless, Creative Technology, Five Currents, Luke Halls Studio & Panasonic-Connect

It wasn’t just understanding the final playback, which is ultimately the result of all this hard work, but the relationship that CT built with HIVE was essential for success; we understood at every stage what the technical challenges were going to be.

Graham Bunyan, Head of Integration, CT UK