Recombinant Media Labs Cinechamber
Description: Mobile surround cinema apparatus.
Date: 2009
Location: First installation, University of California, San Diego
Role: Chief Technician
Collaborators:
- Naut Humon, Director of Operations
- Tana Sprague, Associate Director
- Masako Tanaka, Visual Coordinator
- Peter Otto, Music Technology Director, Music Department at UCSD
- Director of Sonic Arts R&D, Calit2
- Todd Margolis, Technical Director, CRCA
- Seth Sandler, Screen Project Leader
- Dave Corsello, Rigging Project Leader
- Greg Dawe, Visualization Systems Engineer, CalIT2
- Trevor Henthorn, Systems and Music Technology Manager, UCSD Music
- Gloria Poore, Urban Arts Pioneer, Screen Design and Seamstress
- Ben Hackbarth, UCSD, Multichannel Thinking
- Rick Snow, UCSD, Multichannel Thinking
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The RML Cinechamber installation consists of 10 screens in a 2×3 rectangle, each screen having 12 feet width, and standing 6 feet 9 inches tall; this makes the whole area total 24 x 36 feet, with 360 degree surround projection.
Building RML at UCSD Timelapse movie.
While RML’s fundamental design was integrated into the architecture of the auditorium, the screen setup was reconfigured as a “Cinechamber”; a floating panoramic rectangle that is viewable on both sides of the suspended movie surfaces that can be more easily transported. While the preliminary visual playback was similar, an entirely revamped video engine solution based on a computer cluster enabling real time random access to content, more scalability and eventually even greater optical spatialization and graphic manipulation capabilities is being developed.
