* 20,000+ attendees in the arena plus broadcast to overflow venues as well as streaming world wide
* 10+ screens in various configurations
* Almost 10 consecutive years on this project as either a Disguise op or engineer
* HPE Discover is the Hewlett Packard Enterprise showcase technology event for business and government
customers
* Nearly 60M pixels across three screens
* Almost 10 years on this project as Disguise op or Engineer in Vegas, London and Madrid
* 5+ years as a media server coordinator
* Engineering control & display solutions
* Managing content & relaying client expectation to media server ops
* Creating and managing a media distribution network between all of the activations
* Coming out of COVID this was their first large GS in person
* Amazing set design with multiple screen aspect ratios
* While having the in person stage there was also a heavy focus on broadcast
* I worked with the creative team to adapt content designed for the stage to work for broadcast & ran 2 shows simultaneously
* Not every show has 20,000 people, many projects are in intimate ballrooms for high profile attendees
* Product launches
* Leaders & management strategy seminars
* Continued education
* Awards shows
* I had the awesome privilege to op the on screen media for the 2025 Presidential Inauguration at the Liberty Ball
* A partner and I were given loose guidelines and a lot of creative freedom to create our own visuals for the party
* We generated multiple themes & looks that were used during the entire event including times that the president was on stage being broadcast by news networks
* Created a user interface for brand ambassadors to start, stop & restart a user experience that launches a product commercial while logging the time of button press in order to
track attendee traffic
* Each station has a monitor located above the bed so attendees have an excellent view of the commercial
* The control computer issues serial commands to the bed control in order to adjust frame position and mattress firmness in sync with the video
* A projector hidden within the grid was used to map additional content over the bed and attendee body to make a more immersive experience
* Using Disguise, the web API, a notch block and custom app to let attendees personalize their name on a team jersey
* In a holding state, projectors map generic NFL and brand logos onto the bed and headboard / wall
* The attendee can select their favorite team and add their name
* A transition animation plays to reveal the custom jersey and theme of their selected team for a photo op
* Managing multiple stations for hosting podcast with players & NFL hall of famers
* Projection mapped the facade of an entire city block in order to play team animations in sync with who is on the clock
* (8) buildings, tallest being 10 stories
* 45,000+ sq ft of projection surface
* (16) double stacks for 32 projectors
* A 270 degree projection mapped experience with custom app controls
* (1) tablet on the outside of the room to start the experience
* (1) tablet on the inside to control the experience while running
* Projection mapping the ceiling and various walls to help tell the story in a live commercial
* Programmed the main theater Disguise system for timecode tracking of various shows
* Programmed the main theater for game show media and logic input
* Programmed the automated LED wall in the atrium for various shows and game show logic
* A cylindrical stage with (6) monitors in portrait orientation
* An LED banner directly above the monitors that encompasses the entire stage set with panels facing in and outwards
* Calculating for the difference of pixel pitch between monitors and LED, content flows seamlessly between the two
* Another cylindrical stage with LED floor
* Multiple monitors in portrait orientation to create a curved widescreen showing the brand messaging
* A large LED volume for Disguise's Renderstream utilizing Unreal
* Displays split across multiple VX4's
* Unreal projects running on (2) RX servers
* Engineering the Mellanox switch with IGMP for multicast and activating the Rivermax license
* Multi camera broadcast setup with Stype tracking
* A COVID time demo room showing the capabilities of various technologies
* Green screen
* Sony Crystal LED wall
* LED volume with Stype camera tracking and multi camera switching
* Disguise demonstrating full XR or a 2.5D parallax option for an quicker production time
* Another Sleep Number 'ride' activation focusing on the beds and their benefits
* Using Disguise to control multiple activations at the booth, an Unreal project is triggered
to start a video playback within the HoloLens
* As the attendee moves around the bed while being guided by a narrator, the bed is controlled by Disguise and the
HoloLens project received updates about the model position and shape
