Audio-Video Consulting: Multimedia

Nautilus Entertainment Design provided lighting design and A/V system design for the Qualcomm Museum including over 16 large format interactive video kiosks and an integrated control system. The museum was designed to celebrate the 25 years of technological advancements of the company. Guests are invited to interactively explore the history as well as the future possibilities of Qualcomm technology.

The “Historical Timeline” display area (photos on right) contains what the team referred to as Wave Walls. Each of the eight Wave Walls was designed to house a combination of video tiles and Qualcomm historical artifacts. The highlight of the “Future Area” (bottom left photo") contains a flush mounted, curved video wall thirteen feet wide by four feet high.

Produced by John Halloran Associates, NED was retained to provide lighting design and to coordinate the multimedia content distributed to the LED displays. These consisted of 85 Martin LC Panels installed in 3 planes at various heights along nearly 160 linear feet. Having the LED panels mounted behind a sharkstooth scrim provided layering and a surface to light that modified the appearance of the LED panels. The infrastructure to control the LED panels consisted of 2 Hippotizer HD video servers, 3 full size grand MAs , and a Martin P3-100 video processer. An offline pre-visualization system provided by Pre-Lite of San Francisco allowed for programming of the entire week of images during the load in period which allowed rehearsals to start with everything ready to go.

Carnival Cruise Lines' Liberty was the first ship to install the "Seaside Theatre." All systems and specifications were designed by NED. Located on the top deck of the ship, the 12-foot-high by 22-foot-wide screen utilizes the same technology featured in large stadiums and New York’s Times Square with the benefit of being viewable at night and in the glare of a sunny day. In addition to the state-of-the-art screen, NED also designed a 70,000-watt sound system, providing concert quality sound.

Since the Liberty installation, NED has served as primary system designers as well as project managers for all similar installations for Carnival, Costa, Holland America, and P&O.

Queen Mary 2
Cunard Lines

Queen Mary 2
Cunard Lines

ms Oosterdam
Holland America Line

Pittsburgh, PA
H.J. Heinz Company requested two animated ketchup bottles to sit atop the scoreboard in the new Heinz Field stadium. NED was contracted to design the structures and project manage the construction and installation. NED became involved very early in the design process, developing a number of different options at the request of Heinz. Our 3D drafting and rendering capabilities allowed us to rapidly generate images of the various possibilities and provide views from different locations around the stadium. The NED office in New York provided the project management, while the research, design and drawing packages were created at NED's home office in La Jolla, California.

Long Beach, CA
NED served as the design consultant for all audio, video, surveillance and security systems for the Cruise Terminal at Long Beach, CA. Located within the world's largest geodesic dome, formerly the home of the Spruce Goose and adjacent to the historic Queen Mary, this project offered several unique design challenges. The inherent acoustical qualities of the large dome had to be addressed head-on in order to provide an audio system which was both intelligible for general paging throughout the facility and appropriate for general background music. The security and surveillance systems needed to meet the requirements of the local Port Security Services as well as the strict, post-911 government requirements for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services and U.S. Customs Services. The video systems were designed with entertainment and advertisement capabilities, in addition to providing important information to assist passengers during the embarkation and debarkation processes. The project culminated with the successful opening in April 2003.