XDC went to Switzerland to equip the only IMAX Theatre of the country at the the Swiss Museum of Transport (Verkehrshaus der Schweiz) in Lucerne.

Emmanuel Finck - XDC’s Test and Pre-Build Engineer – and Protonic (local integrator)
installed 2 Christie Projectors CP2000 XB with 3D Dolby systems both
managed by only one server to show screenings like Dinosaurs 3D or Fly
me to the Moon 3D or other giant screen film titles available in
digital 3D format

A unique 3D installation in Europe to allow IMAX viewers to see a
40-minute tour of new worlds, enlarging the minute and showing the
large at full size taking the 3D film experience to a new level.

Christian Scheidegger - IMAX Theatre Manager of the Swiss Museum of Transport - has written :

“The IMAX Theatre is equipping itself for the future. For the
first time, 3D digital films will be shown on Switzerland’s largest
permanent cinema screen. The typical feeling IMAX gives audiences – of
being in the thick of the fray – will be even further intensified by
the third dimension. Not only will the fascinating, two-dimensional
image on film be new: thanks to the illusion of spatial depth, every
spectator will really become part of the action.

The IMAX Theatre in Lucerne is the world’s first large-screen
cinema to introduce this latest generation of projection technology,
and will be showing two new 3D family films in the 2008/2009 winter
season. Now, viewers can hike through primeval Patagonia side by side
with dinosaurs or fly to the moon on board the Apollo 11 capsule.

The IMAX Theatre is breaking completely new ground by installing
the 3D projector. IMAX is the world’s first ever large-screen cinema to
work with the interference filter technology developed by Dolby
Laboratories, which is superior to both conventional 3D systems with
disposable cardboard with coloured lenses and to systems with
polarisation filters or electronic shutter glasses, and produces more
realistic colours and a sharper image than existing, film-based
systems. Due to the extremely high separation of the individual,
stereoscopic images, the experience of spatial depth experience is
unimpaired by any double contours. The image is projected onto the
475m2 screen by two high-performance projectors – a worldwide
innovation.”

Download the Swiss Museum of Transport press release