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MicroTiles digital signage levels up education and gaming at NKU Digitorium

January 8, 2012

Christie display technology is enhancing the high-tech experience at Northern Kentucky University's College of Informatics, with a Christie MicroTiles array, four Christie projectors and two Christie Spyder X20-1608 image processors managing and controlling the content.

Located in the Digitorium of the university's Griffin Hall — NKU's first LEED-certified building — the 19 wide by 15 high array of Christie MicroTiles (measuring 25 feet wide by 15 feet high) creates the "BigWall" with projections from live video feeds, HDMI and display footage, and cable TV, among other sources.  

For NKU students, cyberwarfare games will feature a high-resolution dashboard/scoreboard so that the audience can track the real-time status of the competition, and student films will be projected onto the high-tech video display for their peers to enjoy. The installation also allows for projects featuring workflow modeling and 3-D visualization, making the installation educational as well as entertaining, according to Christie.

"In the Digitorium, we have eight opera boxes (four on each side) with computers in each one, which get tied back into the MicroTiles wall — so we can do live interaction," said Chris Strobel, associate professor of electronic media and broadcasting, NKU, in the announcement. "We anticipate hosting 'cyber defense' competitions in the Digitorium, where each team will be stationed in an opera box defending their own computer network from cyber attack.

"We may also participate in various types of 'capture the flag' cyberwarfare competitions in that space (which involve both defense and offense). In both cases the 'BigWall' functions as high-resolution dashboard/scoreboard that allows the audience on the main floor to track the highly multifaceted real-time status of the competition."

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