The combination of the spherical screen with the Barco projectors offers a lifelike digital experience.
Lifelike simulations for precision ship navigation at Rørvik Safety Center
Rørvik, NO · 2016
To offer marine professionals the world’s most realistic training simulation experience, Norway’s Rørvik Safety Center invested 19.7 million NOK in an upgrade to its worldclass Transas simulator. With the help of systems integrator project:syntropy, nine Barco F22 WUXGA projectors and a spherical screen, it achieved this milestone!
Barco solution
- F22 projectors
Why Barco?
- Superior image quality
- Reliability
Barco projectors offer high-quality seamless images in unparalleled detail. They are also unsurpassed in demanding, customized applications such as Rørvik’s ship bridge installation. Rørvik Captain and Maritime Trainer Helge Hestø Andersen enthuses: “Never before has the bridge appeared sharper than this! The combination of the spherical screen and Barco projectors offers a lifelike digital simulation experience.”
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