- Sound for specific displays — and quiet elsewhere.
- Several soundtracks in one room — without disturbing others or interfering with one another.
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Museum of Fine Arts
Using the Audio Spotlight sound system, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts
(MFA) was able to incorporate "runway" music into its "Fashion Show:
Paris Collections" exhibit without intruding on the peaceful museum
ambiance. The show highlighted 10 designers' collections and used the
directional sound system to establish a unique soundscape and
distinguish each collection. The Audio Spotlight systems, located
directly above each designer's "runway," particular collection, and no
one else. More info...
Chicago Cultural Center
A popular multimedia exhibit at The Chicago Cultural Center featured
eight traditional loudspeakers in one small room, each corresponding to
an individual speaking voice projected onto the wall. The traditional
speakers caused big problems, disturbing other galleries and making the
exhibit itself difficult to hear and unpleasant. The museum replaced
the loudspeakers with eight Audio Spotlight discs. The result was eight
local, discrete zones of sound, each corresponding to a nearby
projected video. Those standing under a disc hear the sound, while
elsewhere in the very same room, background noise is but a whisper. Now
this exhibit and others nearby are peaceful, and easy to hear.
Boston Museum of Science
In
an exhibit conceived by MIT Professor Barry Vercoe, the extremely
narrow beams of sound generated by the Audio Spotlight sound system are
used with a holographic video screen to offer three viewers completely
different content simultaneously, when they're standing right next to
each other! A traditional television and loudspeaker set feature a jazz
quartet rhythm section playing "Summertime", from Gershwin's Porgy and
Bess while three Audio Spotlight discs aimed at slightly different
angles beam the sound of a single soloist to adjacent listeners on the
floor. The holographic video screen creates a "directional video"
display that changes its content depending on the viewing angle.
Combining these two technologies effectively creates a television that
can provide three completely distinct programs to three viewers at the
same time. Standing in one position allows you to see and hear only the
trumpet – taking one step over, the trumpet vanishes, and the vocalist
alone appears. Taking one more step eliminates all but the violin
player. More info...
Perkins School for the Blind
The Perkins School for the Blind, where the remarkable Helen Keller was
educated, built a museum in the very center of the school. Because it
is located near classrooms, and because of their students' sensitivity
to audible distractions, they wanted to ensure that exhibit sound
stayed within a carefully defined area. Audio Spotlight systems were
installed at each display to provide high quality sound for those
visiting the exhibits – and quiet everywhere else.
Walt Disney's Epcot Center
At the Innoventions exhibit in Disney's Epcot Center, General Motors is
displaying the Juno, a state-of-the-art vehicle with a sound system
consisting of four Audio Spotlight discs – one over each seat. This
unique technology allows each passenger in the vehicle to hear their
own sound ndash; and no one else's. The Audio Spotlight technology is
also used in Innoventions to wow the crowd with its unique focused
acoustical beams – sound literally flies by the crowd's faces, and
travels around the room, often resulting in dropped-jaws and gasps from
the crowd. More info...
Baseball Hall of Fame
The Baseball Hall of Fame wanted to chronicle the history of the song
"Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by installing three separate kiosks where
different versions could be heard. Instead of using traditional
loudspeakers, which would interfere with one another and outside
exhibits, they installed Audio Spotlight technology. By using three
Audio Spotlight systems, they were able to create three stations right
next each other with individual sound beams®.
The amazing isolation of the system allowed this all to be done without
interference among the kiosks or disruption of other exhibits.