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Pharos Festival - Childish Gambino

Pharos Festival - Childish Gambino

An award-winning immersive concert for Childish Gambino, staged inside the world’s largest inflatable dome with 360° projection powered by Pixela Labs’ real-time nDisplay system.

Pharos was not just a concert it was a fully immersive, real-time, audiovisual experience inside a 160-foot dome, viewed by over 3,000 spectators. Each musical composition had its own custom-built digital world, seamlessly transitioning in sync with the performance. The project was a result of close collaboration between the creative team Wolf + Rothstein, visual effects powerhouse Weta Digital, technical production company 2n, and Pixela Labs, who led the core engineering, system architecture, and real-time rendering.

2018

Year

Immersive Live Show

Industry

System setup, real-time rendering

Scope of work

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Background

The project demanded high-resolution, synchronized visuals across 12 fisheye-projected surfaces using 5 synchronized workstations. Limited access to the physical dome required a virtual prototyping solution. Over just 7 weeks, Pixela Labs designed, tested, and deployed a complete nDisplay-powered visual pipeline.
While Weta Digital handled final visuals, Pixela Labs ensured technical stability, scalability, and real-time execution, making the dome feel like a living digital organism.

What We Did

nDisplay integration

Real-time rendering

VR prototyping

Custom control system

High-res dome mapping

Sync architecture

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Outcomes

Award-winning visuals

Visual Excellence

Live perf. sync

Real-Time Control

Full-dome experience

Total Immersion

Scalable architecture

Engineered to Scale

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Image courtesy of 2n / Weta Digital / Wolf + Rothstein 2018

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