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SUE is the world's largest most complete and best-preserved T rex specimen ever found and resides at the Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History.
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T-rex dinosaur shown in the museum.
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SUE has been with the field museum since 1997 and in 2018, it was time to move Sue to a new hall and time to update the experience.
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Latyoa Flowers (Exhibition Media Producer):
Our goal was to allow visitors to see the bones up close and personal, learn what the injuries are, learning that SUE had a hard life. Learning that there are still unanswered questions about SUE and doing that on the skeleton allowed us to create the visuals.
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Alvaro Amat (Design Director):
We wanted the guests to have an experience that would be elegant and calm. So they have time to contemplate the dinosaur. But at the same time, we wanted to balance it with a more engaging and fun experience with the space laid out.
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Different color lights rotate highlighting different sections of the dinosaur.
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With the space laid out. It became time to narrow down and select the right technology for the job.
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Kyle Ruebel (Senior Account Manager AVI):
Sometimes depending on the actual solution that you're looking for. LED wall, LCD wall might not be the best solution. Projection was the best scenario in this case.
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A total of eleven projectors are used in the exhibit. Three project directly onto SUE while six are positioned to project onto six mounted glass screens,
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Latyoa Flowers:
We didn't want the show back screens to just end abruptly and then the mapping starts to happen. We wanted to keep everything still
on this loop and flowing from one thing to another.
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Multiple projectors and screens hanging from the ceiling showing parts of the exhibit.
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With content planned and SUE moved to the
new hall projectors needed to be chosen.
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Paul Horst (Media Services Supervisor):
NEC was chosen because we have a really good track record with N EC here at the museum. And they've worked out really well for us.
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Kyle Ruebel:
Laser is completely different technology than your standard projector with a bulb. This is something that's gonna be up that people are walking you through every day. When they have to service something they have to come in after hours and it can overall be a pretty hard thing to keep up with. Laser projector, one, gives you much better color contrast, much better brightness as well as just the service ability.
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Paul Horst:
I like having the NaViSet software on a computer running on the network. When I'm installing an exhibit, it makes it a lot easier to control each individual projector. I could just open the computer and click on everything and turn them all on.
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Alvaro Amat:
When we started this project, we were very concerned about working with a very famous fossil that has been in an iconic place for 17 years. We knew the spotlight was gonna be on us and we were able to do. But then we realized when we were able to put it together and be able to tell that story. That it flowed on its own. It, we were so ready, I think with all the science and the technology that things came together in a very harmonious way.
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Come Visit SUE at the Field Museum in Chicago.
Brought to you by SHARP.
With thanks from the Field Museum.
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