Christie, the global leader in visual displays and audio technologies, recently announced that it has acquired Cologne-based coolux GmbH (“coolux’), a world-renowned developer and supplier of 3D compositing and rendering systems, best known for its Pandora’s Box product family. coolux will be integrated into Christie’s Global Market Solutions team, maintaining its office in Cologne, Germany.
Jennifer Smith, executive vice president, Global Market Solutions, said: “Christie is committed to deepen its marketplace lead in supplying a total solution for advanced applications such as projection mapping, broadcast delivery and all manner of large-scale digital canvas creation, so the fit between our products and services and those of coolux is a natural one.’
Continuing, Smith said “Pre-visualisation capability when creating stunning, experiential events – including real-time rendering of same – is increasingly important in the creative plans of entertainment designer and creative visionaries. The acquisition is a boon to those who need multiple display technologies to come together to create both continuous and non-continuous digital canvases, but most importantly, to be able to create and manage the content that flows onto these canvases.”
Link: Christie Digital
