My fiancee and I were invited to a Christmas party. The host runs a business where he installs high end home theaters and home automation.
The home theater was in his basement. I'm guessing the room was 15' x 25'. He had two rows of stadium seating in the back. He had a 4K 3d projector and a 110" screen. The screen alone was around $4,000. It was made out of some material that rejected ambient light but accepted the light of the projector which allowed the screen to be viewed with the lights.
I don't remember the brand of the speakers but they were gold label monitors in a 5.1 setup. Each speaker had a microphone and there were 4 other microphones hidden in the room that listened to the acoustics and adjusted them as necessary.
Each seat in the theater had pressure sensors that reported back to the home's automation server. They worked in conjunction with some motion detectors that were hidden in the light bulbs. If the sensors detected that the room was empty the volume and overhead lighting would dim and then turn off automatically.
The last feature that really impressed me was how the entire setup handled the end of movies. The system would detect that the credits were playing and slowly raise the intensity of the lights. Once the credits the post credit music was turned off in the theater room and the lights in the bar(next room over) turned up and the music played there. The idea is to cause people to naturally want to get up and move to the next room.
Unfortunately I didn't get to watch a movie there last night but we've been invited back for a viewing sometime soon.
All in all it was pretty damn cool. The rest of the home was automated to the gills.
The home theater was in his basement. I'm guessing the room was 15' x 25'. He had two rows of stadium seating in the back. He had a 4K 3d projector and a 110" screen. The screen alone was around $4,000. It was made out of some material that rejected ambient light but accepted the light of the projector which allowed the screen to be viewed with the lights.
I don't remember the brand of the speakers but they were gold label monitors in a 5.1 setup. Each speaker had a microphone and there were 4 other microphones hidden in the room that listened to the acoustics and adjusted them as necessary.
Each seat in the theater had pressure sensors that reported back to the home's automation server. They worked in conjunction with some motion detectors that were hidden in the light bulbs. If the sensors detected that the room was empty the volume and overhead lighting would dim and then turn off automatically.
The last feature that really impressed me was how the entire setup handled the end of movies. The system would detect that the credits were playing and slowly raise the intensity of the lights. Once the credits the post credit music was turned off in the theater room and the lights in the bar(next room over) turned up and the music played there. The idea is to cause people to naturally want to get up and move to the next room.
Unfortunately I didn't get to watch a movie there last night but we've been invited back for a viewing sometime soon.
All in all it was pretty damn cool. The rest of the home was automated to the gills.
