EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
- Omigosh! This is interesting stuff.
- Some things aren't ready to be discussed in public.
- Here's what we CAN say...
DeNiro: "I heard t'ings."
- August, 2003: Metavision President and CXO to participate as an instructor at Harvard Design School's Experience Architecture course Summer 2003. Highlights will be broadcast on NPR's Smart City.
Led by New York architect, Greg Beck, (the former director of architecture for Sony New Technologies) Chernack is joined by professional colleagues, including, Joseph Pine II (co-author of The Experience Economy), Los Angeles Architect Richard Orne, (The Fashion Show in Las Vegas), Brand strategist David Norton, Ph.D. Experience Strategy & Research, Yamamoto Moss (Royal Caribbean Cruises), Retail anthropologist Paco Underhill, (founder of Envirosell, a New York-based consumer research firm and author The Call of the Mall: A Walking Tour of the Crossroads of Our Shopping Culture [2004]), Architect Thomas Quirk, (The Block at Orange), Lighting artist Leni Schwendinger (Dreaming in Color at the Seattle Opera House), Cultural Analysts Margaret King, Ph.D., and Jamie O'Boyle (Philadelphia-based Center for Cultural Studies & Analysis), and several other notable participants.
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November 1, 2002: Passing the 0.25 Century mark.
Metavision is now 25 years old. 1977 saw the formation of a company geared to a changing world (the "Meta" part), in which a visionary approach to media and the transmission of stories (the other part) would be needed.Now we get to open that other bottle of Champagne!
October 27, 2002: Metavision patents prevail!
After a year-long federal patent action against an infringing company, Metavision and its exclusive patent licensee, Panoram Technologies, have prevailed in an out-of-court settlement in Los Angeles.
The several U.S. and International patents involve the seamless large scale display from multiple projection sources.
Details to be shared over dinner.
Now we get to open that bottle of Champagne!May 14, 2001: THEA Award goes to Exploration in the New Millennium, Metavision's attraction at the Kennedy Space Center Vistor Complex. Now open for all audiences! Metavision has designed and completed a new attraction for the Kennedy Space Center, Exploration in the New Millennium. It is a special attraction outlining space exploration beyond the year 2000 and contrasts the last thousand years of exploration with the next thousand years of space exploration.
All guests to the Kennedy Visitor Complex will be able to TOUCH MARS as a highlight of their visit. We've put a piece of a Mars meteorite under a powerful Leica microscope so that guests can analyze its colorful stresses through a live video camera. We've created a multi-screen interplanetary exploration display that takes visitors all over the solar system and we've brought the best 3D images from sojourner into an amazing full-dimension 3D display for everybody to experience.
And just wait till you see our vision of SpaceRace 3000, a hilarious look at interstellar travel a thousand years from today.
The Grand Opening of this Attraction was February 19, 2000.
- The Metavision Signature Film for the Kennedy Space Center, Quest For Life,WON THE SANTA CLARITA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL AWARD FOR BEST EDUCATIONAL FILM OF THE YEAR! [Three other International Film Festival Awards have been garnered, too!]
NASA's Quest For Life project is playing daily to all who visit the Cape Kennedy Visitor Complex.In its first year it has
enthralled audiences while taking them on NASA's central mission, the search for life beyond Earth. Directed by Peter iNova, Metavision's Creative Director, and produced by Richard Dowling, the film runs three times each hour and some stay to see it twice!
Ron Fischer's computer graphics department at Metavision has produced a series of impressive special effects and the scenes take viewers to the far flung corners of the Universe. Do I sound excited? Wait till you see it.
It has more high-concept special effects than many very expensive Hollywood films, a story line that presents a reality more intriguing than fiction and a poetic attitude that makes you proud to be a member of the human race.
Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko on Star Trek-Deep Space Nine) has added his amazingly rich voice to the show's narration, the Academy Award winning Soundelux finessed the audio track and Scott Rea's brilliant orchestral music has greater range, variety and originality than many, many movie scores.
Audience response has been very positive and during production we discovered ways of improving the quality of the image on the screen.
Metavision's "Computer to HD to 35mm film" process has shown itself to be a tremendously versatile and higher quality production path. Our in-house process has achieved a better looking theater print than the ones you've seen in commercial movie houses, hands down. It ought to, it's TWO whole film generations closer to the original image! Private screenings in Los Angeles have demonstrated this conclusively to some very critical eyes...
The show is recorded to film from our 24-frame Digital High Definition master and has that extra-quality look of an optical print from a 70mm negative! Never has outer space looked so clean and sharp (except, of course, in 2001).
Quest for Life has been seen by nearly eight million people to date.
- Big screen on a desk!
A special interactive computer project has been created for the biggest desktop display in the world. It's about the new medium of Desktop Immersion. Mind Engagement without the whole IMAX theater. Interactivity that surrounds you without the big expensive million dollar projector. And it hooks up to your computer!Panoram Technologies' PV290 is an amazing super resolution workstation display with a 3840 x 1024 pixel image just under four feet wide.
That's more pixels of visual information, side to side, than in computer graphics rendered for an IMAX film (not kidding) and it is small enough to
sit on a desk!
Metavision has created the first animated sales demonstration for this device and it is a tour de force of interactive selections, animations, beautiful contemporary web-like design and practical point of sale implementation.
But wait, there's more. You are going to love the PV230 (at right) which is a smaller desktop version but less than half the cost of its older brother. As seen in Wired Magazine.
Flash! Windward Properties, LLC, uses a super fidelity virtual walk through to market their mixed-use retail entertainment center in Baton Rouge called Bon Carré. Metavision created the real time walk through from plans drawn up by The Cuningham Group, AIA and each nuance and addition to the virtual model was on the big screen within hours of being created.
The whole thing played on the GVR-120 display system from our sister company, Panoram Technologies. The giant 6 x 20 foot screen wraps around the audience and displays a smooth virtual fly-through in a completely interactive, real time animation.
Is it effective? With 500,000 square feet to rent to retail tenants the sales job is formidable. Two days is all it took to lease the entire center. Marketing cost savings: hundreds of thousands of dollars. Impact on the customers: priceless.
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- The Very Best comes to Metavision. We have completed an interesting project for Hallmark. THE Hallmark. The people who care enough to bring us all their very best have a special attraction at their Kansas City headquarters.
Hallmark Creativity is a multiscreen theater that explores the creative processes inside a company that has made person to person creativity into a way of life. The show was designed, written, photographed and animated by Metavision with a beautiful theater concept and design from Fred Wolfe Design of Chicago.The production reveals to viewers how the many Hallmark creative processes combine to bring ideas, art, style and emotion into their--and our--lives. Hallmark's response upon seeing the final show was exceptionally gratifying.
- Upcoming projects are in various levels of preproduction and production design, some for art's sake, some in New York, some all over...
