Science Centre Singapore

Science Centre Singapore unveiled its latest exhibition, called the E-mmersive Experiential Environments (E3), which combines different virtual reality technologies to create a fully immersive experience for visitors.

Panasonic is honoured to be one of the technology partners of this breathtaking exhibition, which is by far the largest installation using Panasonic’s laser light source projectors in the ASEAN region.

• Panasonic's achievements in the past for projection mapping.
• Strong support from Panasonic's sales and engineering personnel.
• Panasonic's 6,500 lm WUXGA laser projector, the PT-RZ670, can maintain excellent picture quality for 20,000 hours* without exchanging the lamp and filters. (Maintenance-free)
• The Panasonic PT-RZ670 can be used in portrait installation with the short throw zoom lens ET-DLE085, which gives customers flexibility in installation.

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The overall E3 exhibition area is hexagonal, with a projection height of 7.5 m. Due to the tight space around the cube mountain structure (Deep Space), Science Centre Singapore needed projectors that are flexible enough to be orientated and at the same time be able to project high-definition resolution. For content such as virtual oceans, high image quality is important, as well as the reliability of the projectors since the exhibition is expected to last for at least 5 years. Since the maintenance of the lamp and filter of the projectors at high locations is troublesome, a laser projector was highly recommended. As a result of considering these requirements, Panasonic’s PT-RZ670 projectors with ET-DLE085 short-throw zoom lenses were selected.

Projection mapping for the exhibition required a projection system with a combination of twenty-nine PT-RZ670 laser light source 1-Chip DLP™ projectors and ET-DLE085 short-throw zoom lenses.
The installation uses a lot of overlapping in order to achieve a 70 m long projection canvas at a height of 7.5 m. A total of eighteen PT-RZ670 projectors were used for portrait projection to create a digital wall canvas with an optimised vertical resolution of 1,920 pixels; this provided an up-close viewing experience of just 2.5 mm per pixel.

The PT-RZ670 projectors also provide high picture quality on the cube mountain projection mapping. The PT-RZ670 is Panasonic’s first full laser, 1-Chip DLP™ projector, with a brightness of 6,500 lumens. It boasts 20,000 hours* of maintenance-free operation and long-lasting picture quality even at a portrait angle, which fits the requirement of E3.

* At this time the brightness would have decreased to approximately 1/2 of its original level. After approximately 20,000 hours, cleaning needs to be performed (by the vendor which you purchased from). The light source’s lifetime may be shortened due to environmental conditions.

Soaring over skylines of various cities or plunging into the depths of the oceans can all be done virtually. The education market is the main target audience of Science Centre Singapore and such immersive learning environments will serve as a bridge between classroom learning and real-life experience, as well as stimulate scientific thinking and curious minds of all ages.