Challenge

Being a digital company, Contentful needs innovative space, where everything is geared towards visionary and agile software development.The task was to create an unusual large-scale multimedia space for seminars, workshops and Zoom meeting.The space was named after Ada Lovelace, «first programmer in the world» who is the inventor of the G Note.

Contentful is the leading content platform for digital-first companies, helping over 30% of the Fortune 500 and thousands of brands around the world to create and manage digital experiences for their customers across all channels. As the company grew from a small startup to a «unicorn» with a valuation more than 1 $ billion, they needed to give their innovative ideas more freedom. So Contentful moved its headquarters to a larger building and created a modern work environment for its team with a future-oriented workplace. MEDIA INTEGREAT had to realize a media technology project that included 65 small and 10 large conference rooms, several event spaces for different audience sizes, a café and many other special rooms.

Background

Execution

We had an ambition to create something extremely great, the media version of “the jack of all trades for agile work”. So, for example, the originally requested classic whiteboard became a digital, ten-meter-wide Miro-board with projection, magnetic surface and additional manual writability with pens. Several people can edit content simultaneously on this workspace. With four Ultra Short Throw projectors from Epson, an image format of 10 x 1.5 meters is projected. With a resolution of around 12,000 x 1,800 pixels, it is possible, for example, to display a Gantt over the entire production year in such a way that you can still display each day individually.

It goes without saying that the playback is also beyond the standard: 12 core video server for the 12k projection works on the basis of a "very good 3090 graphics card". A Mac Mini M1 is connected to the video server via a grabber card in order to be able to display normal video meetings via a specially programmed interface as a PiP (Picture in Picture) anywhere on the projection surface via the Zoom Room application.

The user-friendly control of this rather complex media wall is also made possible with a QSC touch panel. In order to enable the setup for Zoom Meetings and also to be able to display the native resolution with Google Chrome, we had to "modify" the MS Windows operating system and the Google Chrome accordingly.

The wall-mounted touch panel allows general room control. In addition, users can also control the video server via keyboard and mouse, or by touch directly on the video wall. This option is offered by a LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensor mounted centrally above the screen using a specially developed and manufactured fine adjustment platform. This sensor achieves a touch resolution of "only" 10 to 20 millimeters on the entire projection surface. When displaying the project management, individual topics can be moved eight meters to the side with the help of a finger.

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We had an ambition to create something extremely great, the media version of “the jack of all trades for agile work”. So, for example, the originally requested classic whiteboard became a digital, ten-meter-wide Miro-board with projection, magnetic surface and additional manual writability with pens. Several people can edit content simultaneously on this workspace. With four Ultra Short Throw projectors from Epson, an image format of 10 x 1.5 meters is projected. With a resolution of around 12,000 x 1,800 pixels, it is possible, for example, to display a Gantt over the entire production year in such a way that you can still display each day individually.

It goes without saying that the playback is also beyond the standard: 12 core video server for the 12k projection works on the basis of a "very good 3090 graphics card". A Mac Mini M1 is connected
to the video server via a grabber card in order
to be able to display normal video meetings via
a specially programmed interface as a PiP (Picture in Picture) anywhere on the projection surface via
the Zoom Room application.

The user-friendly control of this rather complex media wall is also made possible with a QSC touch panel. In order to enable the setup for Zoom Meetings and also to be able to display the native resolution with Google Chrome, we had to "modify" the MS Windows operating system and the Google Chrome accordingly.

The wall-mounted touch panel allows general room control. In addition, users can also control the video server via keyboard and mouse, or by touch directly on the video wall. This option is offered by a LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensor mounted centrally above the screen using a specially developed and manufactured fine adjustment platform. This sensor achieves a touch resolution
of "only" 10 to 20 millimeters on the entire projection surface. When displaying the project management, individual topics can be moved eight meters
to the side with the help of a finger.

David Uhlitzsch
Manager, Workplace Operations
Contentful GmbH

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