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Re:How the Freightliner Reveal Was Projected onto the Hoover... by peeters on Thursday May 07, 2015 @03:07PM (#9507484)
[1] is definitely cool, and similar, though done at a much smaller scale. The Hoover Dam looks to be about 10 times as wide and ~5 times as high as that building. So you're talking about 50 times the surface area to project on. Projecting onto a perfectly flat and perfectly rectangular basketball court is hardly the same challenge though.

Whether the technology is revolutionary or not, my point was that it's rather dismissive to call this "a very large billboard". There's definitely some cool artistic features to the presentation that are not in any way representative of a billboard.

Re:How the Freightliner Reveal Was Projected onto the Hoover... by JoblessWonder on Thursday May 07, 2015 @05:32PM (#9508447)
Oh yeah, I agree. I was mentioning them since your comment only mentioned the effects and not the practical aspects of the display. I just figured you might be interested in some other examples like the one you mentioned.

[Edit: This one was one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZleDZP0FKWo ]

Re:How the Freightliner Reveal Was Projected onto the Hoover... by peeters on Thursday May 07, 2015 @07:30PM (#9509100)
Ok, that one is awesome! Maybe a slightly blander surface, but integrated to a wonderful effect.