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	Museums | Digital Signage | Trade Shows | Special | Creative Marketing  Museums Advantages Sound for specific displays - and quiet elsewhere. Several soundtracks in one room - without disturbing others or interfering with one another. Notable Customers The Field Museum Royal Tyrell Museum Schirn Kunsthalle Smithsonian Peabody Essex Museum Tate Modern, London San Diego Zoo Denver Museum of Nature & Science Featured Installations Centre Pompidou Studio 13/16 in the Centre Pompidou of Paris was created as a place for teenagers to come together and collaborate, while also encouraging independent creativity and innovation. The large open space lent itself very well to collaboration, but needed that something extra that would foster independence, and the creation of unique atmospheres within a larger environment. Utilizing Audio Spotlight systems, aimed precisely at various lounging areas within the studio, the Centre Pompidou was able to bring a personal touch to the environment. Teenagers using the space can plug their mp3 players into the Audio Spotlight systems, so they can listen to their own music while only feet away from someone who is listening to something entirely different, or concentrating in a quiet atmosphere. Museum of Fine Arts Using the Audio Spotlight sound system, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) was able to incorporate "runway" music into its "Fashion Show: Paris Collections" exhibit without intruding on the peaceful museum ambiance. The show highlighted 10 designers' collections and used the directional sound system to establish a unique soundscape and distinguish each collection. The Audio Spotlight systems, located directly above each designer's "runway," particular collection, and no one else. More info... Chicago Cultural Center A popular multimedia exhibit at The Chicago Cultural Center featured eight traditional loudspeakers in one small room, each corresponding to an individual speaking voice projected onto the wall. The traditional speakers caused big problems, disturbing other galleries and making the exhibit itself difficult to hear and unpleasant. The museum replaced the loudspeakers with eight Audio Spotlight discs. The result was eight local, discrete zones of sound, each corresponding to a nearby projected video. Those standing under a disc hear the sound, while elsewhere in the very same room, background noise is but a whisper. Now this exhibit and others nearby are peaceful, and easy to hear. Boston Museum of Science In an exhibit conceived by MIT Professor Barry Vercoe, the extremely narrow beams of sound generated by the Audio Spotlight sound system are used with a holographic video screen to offer three viewers completely different content simultaneously, when they're standing right next to each other! A traditional television and loudspeaker set feature a jazz quartet rhythm section playing "Summertime", from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess while three Audio Spotlight discs aimed at slightly different angles beam the sound of a single soloist to adjacent listeners on the floor. The holographic video screen creates a "directional video" display that changes its content depending on the viewing angle. Combining these two technologies effectively creates a television that can provide three completely distinct programs to three viewers at the same time. Standing in one position allows you to see and hear only the trumpet – taking one step over, the trumpet vanishes, and the vocalist alone appears. Taking one more step eliminates all but the violin player. More info... Perkins School for the Blind The Perkins School for the Blind, where the remarkable Helen Keller was educated, built a museum in the very center of the school. Because it is located near classrooms, and because of their students' sensitivity to audible distractions, they wanted to ensure that exhibit sound stayed within a carefully defined area. Audio Spotlight systems were installed at each display to provide high quality sound for those visiting the exhibits - and quiet everywhere else. Walt Disney's Epcot Center At the Innoventions exhibit in Disney's Epcot Center, General Motors is displaying the Juno, a state-of-the-art vehicle with a sound system consisting of four Audio Spotlight discs – one over each seat. This unique technology allows each passenger in the vehicle to hear their own sound – and no one else's. The Audio Spotlight technology is also used in Innoventions to wow the crowd with its unique focused acoustical beams – sound literally flies by the crowd's faces, and travels around the room, often resulting in dropped-jaws and gasps from the crowd. More info... Sega's Joypolis SEGA's innovative theme park and arcade has the very first public installation of Audio Spotlight technology - installed back in year 2000, while Dr. Pompei was still a graduate student at MIT. Located in the midst of other cutting-edge attractions, the Audio Spotlight has been used to wow visitors with projections of its unique sonic beams for over five years. As a testament to the reliability and rugged design of the Audio Spotlight product line, their equipment has been running continuously for over five years - and still works perfectly today.

Audio Spotlight Sound Beam Systems Installed in General Motors Display at Walt Disney's Epcot 

June 30, 2004
Press Release

Holosonics, the world leader in directional acoustic technology, is pleased to announce a new installation of its Audio Spotlight systems at Walt Disney's Epcot Center. The Audio Spotlight, invented at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the first and only system in the world that creates high-quality sound in narrow beams - much like the light from a flashlight. The patented Audio Spotlight systems are installed in the Innoventions exhibit, which, according to Disney, highlights "some of the newest time-saving and technological wonders for our new millennium with products being used in the home and around the world."

Within Innoventions, General Motors is exhibiting the Juno, a state-of-the-art vehicle with a sound system consisting of four Audio Spotlight discs - one over each seat. This unique technology allows each passenger in the vehicle to hear their own sound - and no one else's. "The parents in the front seat aren't distracted by the movies and video games in the back seat - each parent can even choose what they want to hear," says Dr. F. Joseph Pompei, inventor of the technology. "This application builds on knowledge we had during our work with DaimlerChrysler beginning in 2001. The Audio Spotlight technology has made great strides in the past few years, and General Motors deserves credit for working hard to show off how far we've come."

The Audio Spotlight technology is also used in Innoventions to wow the crowd with its unique focused acoustical beams - sound literally flies by the crowd's faces, and travels around the room, often resulting in dropped-jaws and gasps from the crowd.

While in-car applications are still under development, Audio Spotlight technology is already commercially available, and is the choice of the world's top museums and exhibitors for localizing sound to specific areas in their galleries, without creating background noise. Installations include the Smithsonian Institution, the Boston Museum of Science, Chicago Cultural Center, and the Tate Gallery in London. Many of the world's top corporations, such as Motorola, Time-Warner, Cisco, and Steelcase, are also using Audio Spotlight systems for their stores, showrooms and visitor's centers.

Disney's Innoventions Exhibit

About Holosonic Research Labs, Inc.

Holosonic Research Labs, Inc., a pioneer in directional acoustics, develops and manufactures the Audio Spotlight® directional sound system. Founded in 1999 by MIT graduate Dr. F. Joseph Pompei, Holosonics' Audio Spotlight technology is used in a wide variety of applications including museums, libraries, offices, reception areas, retail displays, trade shows and retail kiosks. The world's top organizations and companies such as Cisco, Motorola, the Smithsonian Institute, the Tate Modern and Time-Warner use the Audio Spotlight directional sound system to beam sound to their listeners... and preserve the quiet.™

Press inquiries: press@holosonics.com

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 Holosonics' Audio Spotlight Makes Quiet Fashionable 

Boston Museum of Fine Arts' Exhibit Uses Directional Sound System

August 10, 2007
Press Release

BOSTON, Mass. - Rhythmic techno and heart-pumping drum-and-bass are not music genres typically associated with fine art exhibits; however, using the Audio Spotlight directional sound system from Holosonic Research Labs, Inc., Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) was able to incorporate this "runway" music into its "Fashion Show: Paris Collections" exhibit without intruding on the peaceful museum ambiance.

The show, which opened in November, highlighted 10 designers' collections - designers with very different aesthetics and visions. Holosonics' Audio Spotlight Directional Sound System established a unique soundscape to distinguish each collection.

"Fashion Show: Paris Collections" featured runway-style displays highlighting 10 pieces from each designer-an audio/video recording of the actual runway show and accompanying explanatory plaques bring the clothing to life. But Yohji Yamamoto's deconstructed, menswear-inspired pieces and Viktor & Rolf's rigid yet feminine dresses and jackets needed the audio aspect - the runway music - that represented them to remain as focused as their plastic mannequins. The Audio Spotlight systems, located directly above each designer's "runway," deliver targeted sound to those viewing that particular collection, and no one else.

The 1/2 inch thin, circular speaker discs create an ultrasonic signal that generates targeted sound only audible to those standing directly within the acoustic beam. The directional sound of the Audio Spotlight system enabled the MFA to include all 10 designers' collections, and play their individual soundtracks, in one gallery without crossover noise.

"Audio Spotlight delivers crisp music at an audible volume in only one direction and one defined area," explains Joseph Pompei, president of Holosonic Research Labs, Inc. "In a true homage to the craftsmanship and the theatrics of high fashion, the MFA was able to spotlight these designers' collections using both sight and sound."

About Holosonic Research Labs, Inc.

Holosonic Research Labs, Inc., a pioneer in directional acoustics, develops and manufactures the Audio Spotlight® directional sound system. Founded in 1999 by MIT graduate Dr. F. Joseph Pompei, Holosonics' Audio Spotlight technology is used in a wide variety of applications including museums, libraries, offices, reception areas, retail displays, trade shows and retail kiosks. The world's top organizations and companies such as Cisco, Motorola, the Smithsonian Institute, the Tate Modern and Time-Warner use the Audio Spotlight directional sound system to beam sound to their listeners... and preserve the quiet.™

Press inquiries: press@holosonics.com