Experience Designer was developed to help AV professionals make better-informed decisions before arriving on site. Working entirely in a browser, it allows users to build a projection environment in 3D and test projector placement, coverage, brightness, lens behaviour and potential occlusions while a project is still being planned.

ProjectorCentral highlighted this “virtual site survey” approach in its award coverage, alongside manufacturer-accurate projector libraries, screen-gain modelling, photometric calculations and support for LED installations.

These tools give designers a clearer view of what is technically achievable, while making it easier to communicate a proposal to customers, creative teams and other project partners.

Experience Designer sits at the beginning of the wider VIOSO workflow. A project can be designed and simulated in the browser, calibrated using VIOSO 7 or ProjectionTools, and then operated using EXAPLAY 3 and VIOSO media-server hardware.

Receiving the award at InfoComm is useful recognition of the work that has gone into Experience Designer, but also of the practical problem it was created to solve: helping project teams understand complex projection systems earlier, before decisions become difficult or expensive to change.