MONGOLIA: Digital Projection M-Vision Lasers Prove their Mettle in Demanding Fountain Show

MONGOLIA

Digital Projection M-Vision Lasers Prove their Mettle in Demanding Fountain Show

28 x M-Vision lasers were chosen to cast colourful projections onto a screen of water at one of the world’s largest fountain shows

Before a thorough makeover in 2004, the Kangbashi District in Ordos, China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, was referred to as "the empty city" since it was largely deserted. After the city was filled with opulent residences, office buildings, sports facilities, museums, and theatres, the region quickly rose to prominence as a tourist attraction, internationally known for its Kangbashi Fountain Square.

Every evening, tourists and locals gather to witness the dazzling fountain show that takes place within the Fountain Square. As the main attraction, the fountain itself consists of 2,970 sub-fountain nozzles and 1,678 underwater lights reaching up to 230m. Music plays in sync with lighting and projections, bringing this lavish district to life.

To celebrate the country's National Day festival, the show’s organisers enlisted the help of Digital Projection to achieve a dream-like water curtain projection show. 28 x M-Vision Lasers (21000-WU) were introduced to the installation to cast content onto a vast "screen" of water, created by multiple water jets measuring 200m long and 20m tall.

Mark Wadsworth, vice president of Digital Projection Global Marketing attributed the ColorBoost and Red Laser technology as one of the many reasons why the M-Vision Lasers were selected for the project: “The customer needed the very best and reliable projectors to display content onto the waterfall like a curtain,” he declared. “The intelligent colour processing delivers the most realistic and saturated colours, something very important for a unique project of this complexity and grandeur”. The M-Vision Laser projector – boasting 21,000 lumens output and a 10,000:1 contrast ratio – has been designed so that the optical components are 100% protected from the outside world, from the light source to the lens, something that was critically important in an outdoor environment like this.

For maximum reliability and durability, liquid cooling and radiators release energy to the exterior environment, allowing the complete optical system to be fully protected against all types of airborne ingress that would otherwise cause image degradation over time.

“It’s fantastic to see the M-Vision laser performing well in such demanding conditions as these,” concluded Wadsworth. “It shows how reliable and high performing these projectors are even in the most challenging of applications. It’s a pleasure to see that the M-Vision lasers were chosen for such a complex and impressive install.”

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