shows

panasonic projector & display corporation and hive have created an immersive museum experience at the national museum of qatar. the project involved audiovisual technology implementation for exhibit design. the installation features cosmic-themed visuals displayed across wall-mounted projection systems for visitor engagement.

technical direction company ran the projection backbone for vivid sydney 2026 — eleven installations across circular quay, the rocks, barangaroo and darling harbour, 23 consecutive nights, more than 1.45 million ansi lumens of barco laser projection plus roe led walls. garrison church and the argyle cut were rescanned with lidar beforehand to rebuild the mapping models in detail. the whole city-scale rig ran under one master control room with 13 monitoring cameras and 11 automation systems, and tdc added an ai-driven piece of its own, the daydream machine, in the pier street underpass.

david guetta ended the ultimate monolith tour with three sold-out june nights at stade de france — more than 240,000 people across the run — staged as a fully immersive audiovisual show built around a monolith centrepiece. epic cinema and director stijn verlinde shot the finale on a 22-camera red rig. stadium dance shows at this scale are now designed for the lens as much as for the crowd.

texas-based sky elements is flying drone shows coast to coast across the july 3 to 6 weekend for the united states' 250th anniversary — fifteen locations on july 3 alone, including a 150-drone show over piqua, ohio flown alongside the town's fireworks. the july 4 slate runs from santa fe to bismarck, st. louis, aspen and burbank. fireworks replacement has stopped being a pilot program and become a national logistics operation.

on 19 june, 3,097 drones flew simultaneously over titan beach in matosinhos, greater porto, opening the three-day air invictus festival. the display took two guinness records — europe's largest drone light show and the largest phrase formed by drones, passing the previous 3,050-drone mark. catalan company flock drone art studio synchronized the fleet.

roskilde festival opened its 2026 site with the first major rework of the orange stage in 25 years — the roof structure now twice as high, the iconic canopy 25 percent larger in both height and width, holding crowds up to 60,000 with considerably more room for stage design. two new stage areas, fauna and lagune, joined the site the same year.

the first field of dreamz fest at san diego's petco park carried twelve 40-watt kvant clubmax projectors, run busked — an operator improvising beams to the music in real time rather than chasing timecode. laser light company's crew of mitchell blakemore, chris jackson and ricky mendez stretched beams across the stadium in the peaks and pulled back through the mellow passages. slightly stoopid headlined, with stephen marley, stick figure and don carlos on the bill.

don toliver's octane arena tour runs seven atom 58 laser systems on beyond control, produced by pyrotecnico — programming by logan izenas, operation by jason barton-gillman, with creative studio thank you 92 and creative director mike carson. the design works in big aerial effects, precision beam choreography and audience sweeps, treating the lasers as the show's shape rather than its accent.

dave's 42-date arena tour flies a grid of 144 dmx-controlled winches carrying led pods, each with nine metres of travel — hidden in the roof for most of the show, then lowered to form kinetic shapes over the stage. lighting and co-production designer tim routledge and programmer morgan evans run them as a slow reveal rather than a constant effect.

laseranimation sollinger published the full laser specification for fusion festival 2025's turmbühne: four phaenon xd 24000 projectors fitted with line optics, four phaenon accurate 10 units, a grid of 28 blitz lasers and six tarm blaze fixtures, with an infinity-mirror laser installation by lighting designers david egger and sebastian mähler. it is one of the few big psy-adjacent stages whose exact rig is public.