Unique sight and sound experience at the Autostadt in Wolfsburg

"Autoland D" is the title of four humorous and entertaining fictional stories illustrating the love Germans heap upon their cars. They were recorded and filmed for a LED wall that gives the audience a 120-degree panorama view, thus providing a new kind of visual experience. The film is being shown in the recently redesigned film theatre in the Group Forum section of the Autostadt in Wolfsburg.

The concept for the media technology was developed by the Fachwerk engineering office. Neumann&Müller Veranstaltungstechnik was responsible for executing the project and coordinating the various disciplines involved.

The especially designed curved 8K LED wall is 21 metres wide and four metres high; the 15 million or so pixels (pixel pitch 2.4 mm) are vertically and horizontally optimised up to a viewing angle of 145 degrees. This covers around two thirds of our maximum field of view. The LED wall was set up by N&M technicians in close collaboration with the development team at ICT; it provides interfaces for additional event technology, which means that external light, sound and video control systems can also be linked up. N&M set up and programmed the playing of the content on the LED wall using a "Pandora's Box" media server.

A sound system based on "wave field synthesis" is also used in the panorama cinema. Almost one hundred loudspeakers help to create a three-dimensional sound that can be experienced from any point in the 360-square-metre auditorium. Remarkably, the sound system installed in the walls is practically invisible. Special, precisely fitted and acoustically neutral wall panels conceal all of the loudspeakers. Professional lighting equipment hangs from the trusses under the ceiling of the ten-metre-high auditorium and more can be added as and when required. The configuration of the stage area also allows a large degree of versatility as does the possibility of installing seating (up to three hundred seats) so that in future the cinema can be used for a wide variety of events as well as for presenting innovative film and sound formats.

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