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A little bit about us …

Thanks to the lovely Inavate team for this article:

https://www.inavateonthenet.net/features/article/the-display-engineer-redefining-the-entertainment-market

“The use of light and sound to stimulate guests, to let them detach from the ordinary world, that is the goal and it’s part of a booming market. We love to escape into a fantasy world and to even role play in that.“

“We provide design and technical expertise in projected displays, using projectors, lenses, mirrors, masks, alignment and screens. We liaise with master planners, architects, AV and system architect leads, OEMs, fabricators, setworks designers and more.”

Ten years of Portal Devices Immersive Display Innovation

Portal Devices proudly celebrates its 10 year anniversary on 14th January 2025.

 

We set out to create the most incredible immersive displays, and to help OEMs and integrators with specialist skills.

Throughout 2025 we’ll be celebrating what we’ve produced with our talented collaborators and customers. From designing some of the most prestigious theme park displays, to flying rides and giant screen cinema, to planetaria and immersive bubbles, it’s been an immense amount of immersive fun.

Thanks for working with us, it’s the most enjoyable family and industry

Fulldome UK 2024

Fulldome UK 2024 was a blast with two days of immersive innovation and fun.

DATES: 11th and 12th of October 2024
LOCATION: CULTVR Lab / Cardiff / Wales.
SUPPORTED BY: Screenberry /Creative Wales / Imersa / Welsh Government / New Audio Technology / Cardiff Music City Festival / Media Cymru / Town Square / Worlds / Sky Scan / Buzz Magazine

Well done to all who impressively-organised this event where our love of immersive shows and domes was satisfied once again.

Thanks to our chums at GaiaNova and CULTVR, with a special mention to the presenters who impressed as always.

PARTNERS: 4Pi Productions / United VJs / University of Plymouth / NSC Creative / i-DAT.org / Real Ideas

And a special mention to Beardyman for crashing so enjoyably into the dome

GaianovaBeardymanOur audiophile and IT ninja

See you next year for FDUK2025

If you’d like us to design or advise on dome projection, our speciality, please get in touch

An immersive opera at the Vatican

Multisensory Immersive Opera Freeform Projection at the Vatican

BLOOD&BREATH World Premiere, OCTOBER 19, 2024

Church of Santa Maria della Pietà, Vatican City, Rome, Italy

https://www.frequencyopera.org/bloodandbreath

 

With Portal Devices’ support with projection, a stunning immersive opera has been performed.

Using just two projectors and decades of confidence with immersive visuals, the interior of the Church of Santa Maria della Pietà was brought alive with beautiful content produced by Margot McLean for Frequency Opera.

https://www.frequencyopera.org/margot-mclean

“This opera explores the life and mystery of animals and the circulation of air and blood in the body through the power of the heart. The geometries of the body as microcosm have answering geometries in the movement of the planets and stars, all revealing the intricate marvel of the natural world as the spiritual world. Through immersion in a multimedia narrative, images and song, an ancient legend of the surrender of Mary Magdalen and Joseph of Arimethia to the elements as they struggled to find themselves after the death of their beloved teacher is told. Casting themselves into the natural world, they rediscover the source of  Creation.

Using a unique mix of classicism and the avant guard, BLOOD&BREATH gives us Mary Magdalene and Joseph of Arimathea as they retreated to the caves in the south of France, where Magdalene lived in solitude, experiencing an interior transformation that led her to understand where the love that healed her has gone.”

Portal Devices enjoyed helping these impressive artists immerse their audience in stunning visuals.

© Frequency Opera, LLC, 2024.  All Rights Reserved.

www.frequencyopera.org