Interactive museum, how to design the best place?
Hello, I'm a Latin American integrator with many years of experience in videoconferencing, automation (full Crestron), monitoring centers, lighting control, convention centers, digital signage, and LED displays. I have a solid understanding of all the protocols we use daily. However, today I have a new challenge outside my area of expertise: I've been asked to completely redesign an interactive museum for a multinational corporation.
This museum has been operating for the past six years with a system that combines Watchout 5, Watchout 6, and Pixi Labs. However, for the last three years, it has been causing so many problems that the client simply wants to scrap everything and never hear from the company again.
Our AV experience is more focused on the corporate world than the experiential world. However, I want to take this challenge as a new opportunity for growth, and that's where I'd like to ask for your help.
This museum is comprised of nine rooms, each telling a different story. Two of these rooms have LED screens playing a video with accompanying audio. Two others are immersive projection rooms (one with three projectors and the other with eight, including two pointing at a central table). Two more rooms use standard projectors to play a video with audio. Two have signage-type screens (using the Pixilab player via the web), and the last room simply has audio playing on a loop.
For this project, I'm considering a multi-platform integration between BrightSign, VIOSO with Exaplay, and Crestron as the central control hub for all equipment in the museum.
I'm open to recommendations for choosing the right "heart" for this museum—something reliable and easy to use. Unfortunately, the current platform has failed too often because they created a kind of "Frankenstein" of hardware within the project.
I'd like to learn more about this world of experiential learning. If you've worked in this field, what should we use?
The experience always consists of guided tours with a guide for each group. This guide controls each room using a Pixilab app, which they use to play videos and control the volume and mute the audio in each area.
Thanks for your help.