Adaptive Video Walls and Displays, a manufacturer of wall-mountable, floor-standing, interlocking and flyable video wall frames for multiple LCD, LED and plasma monitors, recently teamed up with SVT, a company that provides design, installation, management and service of technology solutions in a variety of venues, to create three interlocking video walls for the Cube Lounge at the Rivers Chicago Casino. Cube Lounge, a multimedia sports lounge by day and state-of-the-art nightclub/live-performance space by night, can raise and lower the Adaptive video frames from the ceiling, quickly transforming the space as needed.

When the lounge is being utilized as a sports venue, a two-sided 2×1 video wall, consisting of four 55-inch NEC flat-screen LCD displays, is positioned over the bar area. In the center of the lounge is a two-sided 6×1 video wall that also has 55-inch NEC LCD displays. During live performances, the front stage area houses a complete 4×4 video wall, which consists of sixteen 46-inch NEC ultra-thin bezel LCD displays. This video wall can be configured to exhibit one large image across all the displays or up to sixteen different images. When the venue is in nightclub mode, the entire video wall can then be lifted out of sight.

Adaptive’s connecting bars and compression locks link multiple LCD frames together, horizontally and vertically, in both landscape and portrait orientations. Mounting frames and LCD monitors are assembled in tiers, and then the completed and locked assembly is flown using a load-rated rigging beam and suspension components. Rigging beams secure to the top and bottom of the video wall for tilting displays, and cam-style compression locks provide seamless alignment between LCDs. Powder-coated alloy steel-welded frames and precision-machined connecting bars provide rugged overhead lifting for other applications.