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Project
To design and install the A/V
environment for this one-of-a kind teaching/demonstration
theatre.
Challenges
Students must be able to interact
with instructors on-site and remotely from anywhere in the
world.
Classes must be able to examine large equipment
and very small objects.
Cameras and microphones must be able to
capture everything, everywhere in the room, with
all camera feeds routable to the big screens.
Presenters must have control of
the A/V equipment
and environment
so that teaching remains front and
centre with technology to support but not overwhelm it.
In addition, the circular building, surrounded with windows, has to
serve as a venue for events ranging from press conferences - to
classroom - to television studio.
Scope
To
capture everything, Videoscope provided 9
cameras: 4 wall-mounted, 1 on the ceiling, 2
full studio cameras with teleprompters, a jib
camera on a dolly, to shoot from above or odd
angles and a "lipstick" cam to which a 2-way
articulating borescope can be attached, to get
inside small spaces. All signals can be routed
to any of the four screens, recorded to DVCAM
and/or streamed live.
Remote control: The mounted cameras are
operated by
an AMX touch panel
for zoom, pan and tilt. The same
panel gives the presenter control of VTR, CD and DVD playback, the screens, the lights
and the drapes.
eDome can also be run as a full television studio.
With a technician in the control room, it operates with up to 8
camera sources, teleprompter and character generator as well.
Webcasting is
key to the eDome
concept. Everything in the classroom background (equipment,
drapes, walls, ceiling) is black.
This allows the webcasting engine to devote all of its
bandwidth to the presenter and the object being demonstrated,
for the best possible image.
Interactive Long-Distance Instruction shows eDome at its
high-tech best. To
demonstrate, a Music Professor at the College taught a
guitar lesson to two students in Moosonee on James Bay. Via
live webcasting he could see the students on the big screens,
talk with them, listen to them play. Even more impressive: the
three musicians in the two locations tuned their guitars to
match, over the internet.
Results
The wide variety of events eDome has hosted since September
2003, attest to the success of the installation.
In addition to classes it has been used for:
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Interactive
Long-Distance Instruction (high bandwidth over fiber
optics)
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Live Webcast of Special Events via Internet
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Training Video Production
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Open
Houses
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Press
Conferences
·
Breakfast
Meetings.
For more information about eDome, the website is
http://edome.cambrianc.on.ca
Contact us toll-free at 1.877.387.2673 or email us at sales@videoscope.com
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Violin
Lesson by Internet
Equipment
Repair Demo
Control Room with
Touch Panel
Operating
from the Control Room
Borescope "Lipstick" Camera Image on Panel.
All
photos above are courtesy of Cambrian College
of Applied Arts and Technology
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