Two years design and planning, two months for installation and two weeks just to
set up, Austria’s AV Stumpfl multimedia and presentation technology can be found
at the very heart of Berlin’s fantastic shopping world, Das Schloss. Das Schloss is
one of six shopping centres located across Germany owned and managed by
WealthCap RealEstate Management GmbH, a daughter company of UniCredit.

F1 Gesellschaft fur Informationstechnologien und Managementberatung mbH
working in collaboration with VIOSO GmbH installed 15 AV Stumpfl’s Wings VIOSO
software packages for calibration and projection mapping, 15 Wings VIOSO servers
for playback of high-resolution content, Wings Touch for simplified operation and
Wings Avio Manager for system control and communication between system
components.

The project is the only system of its scale and size and is a result of a recent
technical upgrade eight years after it was first opened to the public. It was officially
launched in March 2016 with local dignitaries and media in attendance.

Before the project started, the “Magic Ceiling’ at Das Schloss projected pictures of
the sky; day, night, clouds and the universe watched over shoppers as they strolled
through a castle scene.

F1 Gesellschaft fur Informationstechnologien und Managementberatung mbH
designed the installation with longevity and return on investment in mind. Now Das
Schloss has an “underwater’ theme inspired by the brand new multimedia content
designed by artistic collective Werft 6 GbR in Dusseldorf.

A total of 78 Barco F32 video projectors are controlled by 15 computers, projecting
a beautiful underwater scene of coral, schools of fish and even mermaids along
three circular areas of a 1,200 metres squared ceiling as the people below go about
their shopping sprees. The entire projection canvas is about 16K by 16K square
pixels and is in a curved L-shape.

The projected images for the ceiling of Das Schloss utilises the patented auto-align
warp and map feature of AV Stumpfl Wings VIOSO. 2 cameras were used to
automatically determine the warping & blending of the ceiling. Thus, the watery
landscape at Das Schloss is uncompromised.

Wings Touch is a Drag & Drop Editor that can easily create and edit user interfaces
– from background layouts to designing and connecting controls – and can run from
any device such as a smartphone, tablet or touch device.

Emanuel Zuger, managing director of VIOSO GmbH was on-hand during project
build up and said: “This project was a necessary upgrade to an older system. Once
it was installed, shoppers noticed that the system was brighter, more detailed and
interesting. And we had fun running around at night-time in the shopping mall with
tiny cameras to auto align this vast number of projectors to a seamless image of
nearly 170MP resolution.

“We thank everyone involved in this great project and look forward for frequent
change of content and much more entertaining ideas with this large display.’