Immersive media theatre for Rijkswaterstaat LEF, a research and innovation platform for the Dutch Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management. The media theatre is a space in which walls and floor consist of projection surfaces.
By running specific interactive and audiovisual applications the entire space can be transformed to fit any occasion. We have been asked to develop a series of audiovisual and interactive applications to be used in the discussion and decisionmaking process. For this we developed a total of nine applications, one of which is a interactive cartographic simulation giving a variety of perspectives on the Netherlands by using the vast amount of cartographic material Rijkswaterstaat keeps. Another example is a ad-hoc social network in which datavisualizations are generated in real-time, based on questions answered by participants with a handheld computer The applications use a projection surface consisting of a total of 15 projectors and 7.1 surround sound.