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Beaudry Interactive and Christie create virtual putting areas at Las Vegas’ Atomic Golf

The Las Vegas Strip has a new attraction: Atomic Golf. Opened at the end of March 2024, the four-story venue is spread across 99,000 square feet with over 100 golf bays and eight virtual putting areas. The virtual putting areas were created and designed by Los Angeles-based experiential design and production studio Beaudry Interactive, with 32 Christie GS Series laser projectors, selected by Coherent Design to illuminate the areas.

These areas are located outdoors, with an environmental enclosure over the top, where the projectors are housed. Each green is 10 feet wide by 20 feet long, with 200 ft-L of luminance (visible light) achieved by four Christie DWU1100-GS projectors. The image is bright enough to use the areas day and night and the content also punches through the bright ceiling lights, with playable time reaching up to twenty hours daily.

There are currently three inaugural putting games to choose from. Guests hit targets to score points, instead of aiming for a cup, while cameras track each player’s ball on the green in real time. “The project started off with an R&D effort. We were curious to see if we could track any golf ball - with or without a marker and regardless of colour - and then do a gameplay overlay”, explains David Beaudry, principal, Beaudry Interactive. “That was about half our efforts for the first year: building the math and the technology in the camera arrays to be able to track golf balls over a course of any size.” The R&D resulted in the ability to track balls within a few millimetres of their location on a putting green.

Infrared cameras track the balls on the greens. The cameras run at 170 frames per second to minimise latency, and the projectors feature a low-latency mode, minimising the delay between tracking and projection mapping to enhance performance and ensure seamless execution. “The other half of our R&D effort was all the maths that brings it together, to ensure that a golf ball moving along the putting green is seamlessly transitioned from one camera to the next”, says Beaudry. Additionally, the system is designed to distinguish between players’ balls, allowing for competitive head-to-head play on the same putting green.

Coherent Design selected 32 Christie DWU1100-GS 1DLP laser projectors for the putting areas, based on years of experience working with Christie technology. Featuring laser illumination and WUXGA resolution, the DWU1100-GS delivers 11,850 ISO lumens (10,000 ANSI lumens). Coherent Design worked with Christie to determine the number of projectors needed, the brightness, and the portal glass for the enclosures. Las Vegas’ Simply Connected installed the projectors.

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