eyevis: video walls in the Room of Human Rights and the Alliance of Civilizations

eyevis: video walls in the Room of Human Rights and the Alliance of Civilizations. The United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG) is a UN representative office with more than 1,600 staff. This is the biggest United Nations duty station outside the headquarters in New York and provides critical support to the Organization’s efforts. UNOG hosts over 8,000 meetings every year, making it one of the busiest intergovernmental conference centers in the world and a focal point for multilateral diplomacy.

The new Room of Human Rights and the Alliance of Civilizations – described as the Sistine Chapel of the 21st century - was inaugurated in November by Spain’s King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Swiss President Pascal Couchepin.

The massive conceptual artwork, a redesign of the 929 m2 dome which resembles a grotto with multicolored stalactites, took over two years to complete, used 35,000 kg of paint and the services of 20 assistants, among them a cook and a cave expert. The artistic project was launched in 2006 by Zapatero and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to improve dialogue between the West and the Muslim world.

The Spanish Foreign Ministry says the government is funding 40% of the costs, with the rest provided by private-sector donors.

A Wall of Information

Besides this gorgeous artwork the latest large screen technology from eyevis was also installed in this prestigious project. The delegates can now make use of two eyevis video walls to add visual information to their speeches, debates and presentations.

The two video walls comprise 2x6 EC-67-SXT+ DLP rear-projection cubes from the company‘s EC Series. The cubes provide outstanding image brightness and contrast with SXGA+ resolution (1,400x1,050 pixels), and the wide viewing angle ensures visibility from everywhere in the room.

The gaps between the 67 inch diagonal cubes of the video walls are almost invisible, thanks to their ‚seamless‘ design. They have internal split controllers and were integrated into the new AV media control technology of the room. The total size of each of the video walls is 4.1 x 2.05 m and automatic double-lamp systems, which switch to a spare lamp in case the operating lamp fails, guarantee the highest availability of the system.

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