At the recent TED Conference in Long Beach, CA, GE made a splash with a special area in the lobby allowing attendees to share their thoughts on the recent exciting presentations. Together with ESI Design, Muse Presentation Technologies, and HB Stubbs, an interactive zone was assembled as a gathering point for attendees to sound off on what they'd just seen and heard in a unique fashion.

Three towers were erected in the area, two faces of each tower covered with subsurface mounted lcd's, each fed by Apple computers and tied into a local network. An audio and video recording station cut into one side of each tower is where attendees could record their thoughts and inspirations with control via touchscreen. The videos were then saved over the network and distributed to the playback displays on each of the towers. To further tie into the excitement of the TED conference, each frosted acrylic tower was lit from within in colors that automatically changed along with the conference themes.

Muse was able to bring together a system of displays, computers, and show control software that worked with custom recording software designed and written by ESI to distribute videos after they were recorded, to change the lights when a conference theme changed, and require little to no interaction with area supervisors.

A beautiful design and concept from ESI, brought to life by HB Stubbs, with technology tied together by Muse.

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