Toroidal Venue with Movable Stage and Immersive Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current entertainment venues lack the capability to seamlessly integrate live and pre-produced performances with immersive environments, limiting the flexibility and engagement of audience experiences.
Innovation Solution
The design of an entertainment venue featuring a toroidal structure with a ring-shaped performance stage and Immersive Display Screen (IDS) system, which combines live performances with rear and front projection technologies to create a composite image, allowing for dynamic audience positioning and multiple viewing angles, and incorporating movable seating and secondary screens for enhanced immersion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a traditional fixed-stage venue is used, then the venue structure is simple, but the flexibility to host diverse entertainment formats is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The stage is designed as a movable platform that can rotate and change position within the venue. The stage includes a rotating mechanism allowing it to face different audience sections, and it can be repositioned to accommodate various performance formats including live shows, pre-recorded content presentations, and hybrid formats, thereby providing versatility without requiring complete venue reconfiguration
Solution Approach 2:
The venue is designed with a universal stage system that can accommodate multiple entertainment formats including live performances, pre-produced video presentations, and hybrid formats. The stage can be configured for different audience arrangements and can present content in various orientations, making it suitable for diverse entertainment purposes without requiring separate dedicated spaces for each format
2Adaptability or versatility
If extensive venue reconfigurations are performed to change entertainment formats, then diverse formats can be accommodated, but time and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The movable and rotating stage allows rapid reconfiguration between different entertainment formats without requiring complete venue restructuring. The stage can be rotated to face different audience sections or repositioned to accommodate various presentation formats, enabling quick transitions between live shows, pre-recorded content, and hybrid formats within the same venue configuration
Solution Approach 2:
The venue is pre-configured with a movable stage system and multiple display surfaces positioned to accommodate various entertainment formats. The infrastructure is prepared in advance with tracks, supports, and positioning mechanisms already in place, allowing the stage to be quickly moved or rotated between formats without requiring extensive setup or reconfiguration work during event transitions
3Ease of operation
If a ring-shaped movable stage is implemented, then audience engagement and immersion are enhanced, but the mechanical complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The stage is designed with rotational and positional movement capabilities that allow it to dynamically engage different audience sections. The stage can rotate to face specific audience areas, creating immersive experiences by bringing performers closer to different segments of the audience, and can be controlled through automated or manual mechanisms to enhance audience interaction during performances
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This configuration enables flexible event hosting, providing an immersive and engaging experience by combining live and pre-recorded content, allowing for diverse entertainment formats without extensive venue reconfigurations, and enhancing audience interaction through motion and visual immersion.
Implementation Method 1
The back screen is toroidal in shape and may be equidistant from the front screen. The LEDs (or an alternative technology) point towards the inside of the toroid defining a second layer, or back screen.
Implementation Method 2
The front screen may be toroidal in shape, and contains a front image, projected from a laser projector, while light from the back screen shines through the front screen to provide a 'composite' image effect for the audience
Implementation Method 3
The front screen may be toroidal in shape, and contains a front image, projected from a laser projector
Data Source
AI summary
A venue includes an exterior structure having a spherical-like shape, a theater area inside the exterior structure, an audience seating area positioned in the theater area, a first plurality of light-emitting diodes, and a second plurality of light-emitting diodes. The theater area includes an interior curved surface. The audience seating area has a plurality of levels of seating. The first plurality of light-emitting diodes are positioned to facilitate providing a first display along the interior curved surface and in front of, to the side, above, and behind at least a portion of the audience seating area, and a second plurality of light-emitting diodes positioned to facilitate providing a second display around at least a majority of the spherical-like shape of the exterior structure.