GUANGZHOU, China – The opening ceremony of the 16th Asian Games on Haixinsha Island earlier this month featured a 2,000-square-meter main stage covered with 10cm of water. Decorative elements included four stylized sailing ships and eight LED velomena. The largest multi-sport event in Asia, the Asian Games (also known as Asiad) are held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. During the 16 days of competition, the Guangzhou Asian Games feature 42 events, promoting harmony among the Asian countries.
Barco worked with China-based event planner BeiAo to position 16 XLM HD30 projectors around the 10,000-capacity audience area. As the velamena opened, the visual impression was to give the audience the feel of being aboard a ship sailing east.
The show featured Barco's XLM HD30 projector, a DLP projector with a native wide-screen aspect ratio of 2048 by 1080 resolution and light output of 30,000 center lumens. It uses a liquid cooling system.
The visuals supported the Games' main theme: "Invigorate Asia, Spark the World."
We are so pleased that we succeeded in creating a huge dynamic image on the stage's water surface for the opening ceremony," said Jiangkang Lu, production manager for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2010 Asian Games, crediting Barco for its "outstanding technology" and "excellent video lighting systems."
"It's the Barco projector that makes the stage so stunning," added Sha Xiaolan, lighting engineer for the opening ceremony.
"We are greatly honored to participate in this grand event," said Fei Yan, general director of Barco Greater China. "This isn't the first time a large number of Barco 30,000 lumen HD projectors have been used in sports events, but this is the first time for Barco at such a world stage event in China," crediting "BeiAo's professional cooperation and trust" as a key factor in the event's success.
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