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Martin Audio CDDs and Adorn installed at Sandbox VR venues

Described as “a futuristic VR experience”, Sandbox VR offers teams of six the opportunity to visit original worlds, experience journeys to space or survive zombie ambushes. Inspired by the “Star-Trek” Holodeck, the advanced audio-visual specification and installation for this attraction was entrusted to London-based Crossover.

Sandbox approached the specialists to fit out the three floors of the Post Building in London’s Covent Garden, a former Royal Mail Sorting Centre that had previously sat derelict for twenty years. Selection of the right products was paramount and careful consideration had to be given to the challenges around the acoustics and structure of the building. For sound reinforcement they opted for Martin Audio’s CDD coaxial differential dispersion series, as they often have in the past.

Crossover specified several different audio-visual solutions for this space, with digital signage driving pavement appeal and allowing easy updates of scheduled information and promotions. Inside, it’s the four Holodecks, split over the two lower floors, that are the main area for VR participation. Each area houses a wall-mounted large-format display that provides information to the team about the room and mission that has been chosen. Here, diverse audio and visual elements mesh together to enhance the visitor experience within a dynamic space.

Fed by a combination of customer-profiled media player, iPod and DJ inputs, fourteen CDD6WTX-WR speakers are distributed across the multi-audio-zoned venue. This includes the Mezzanine Presentation Area, which serves as a multifunctional events space, where the audio system combines with a large projection screen, fed from an ultra-short throw projector. In the main bar area the CDD6s are boosted by a pair of discreet Martin Audio slimline SX110 (1 x 10 inch) subwoofers in order to create more of a club feel.

“Crossover did an amazing job deploying our AV requirements into the first Sandbox VR venue in Europe”, states Jake Wilmot-Sitwell, co-founder at VR Entertainment Group/Sandbox VR (UK & Ireland). As a result the integrators were engaged for the second Birmingham site, where they turned elsewhere in the Martin Audio portfolio to specify ten of the Adorn ACP55T 5.25 inch pendant speakers in a distributed system, along with four Martin Audio SX110 subs.

(Photos: Sim Canetty-Clarke)

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