PGAV Destinations is Featured in the ?World?s Greatest? Series

St. Louis, MO (PRWEB) December 19, 2011

PGAV Destinations, a global leader in the planning and design of entertainment and cultural destinations, announces its upcoming debut on the ?World?s Greatest? television series.

The show featuring PGAV Destinations will air on December 28, 2011, January 2 and January 9, 2012 on national cable channels and local network affiliates at various times around the country.

?PGAV Destinations was selected because they are the best independent design and consulting firm in the destination design market,? states Gordon Freeman Executive Producer of the ?World?s Greatest? at How2Media. ?They are a very unique company, and I know their story will be most interesting to our viewers.?

Employing sculptors, industrial designers, zoologists, landscape architects, and graphic and interior designers, PGAV Destinations has assembled an exciting and creative team to work with major clients all over the world. Currently, the firm is working in China, UAE, Spain, and the Bahamas, as well as in many major American cities. A film crew from How2Media spent time at the firm?s headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri to go behind the scene and interview designers involved with extraordinary projects.

?We are truly honored to have our world?s-best staff featured on this nationwide program,? according to Jim Moorkamp, Principal of PGAV Destinations. ?It is a reflection of the growth of our practice over the past several years.?

In the past eleven years, PGAV has opened more than 55 projects in twenty U.S. states and abroad. The cumulative impact of these projects translates into 90 million in annual visitors and more than $ 1.8 billion in cumulative project value.

About PGAV Destinations. PGAV Destinations is a global leader in the planning and design of unique destinations. The firm uniquely combines award-winning storytelling and creativity with business strategy to create some of the world?s most important cultural, heritage, and natural destinations. PGAV develops growth-oriented master plans and translates these plans into innovative new destination products. Now in its fifth decade, the firm has authored hundreds of highly successful projects in places such as SeaWorld, the Grand Canyon, Biltmore Estate, The Gettysburg Battlefield, the Georgia Aquarium, Kennedy Space Center, and Busch Gardens. http://www.pgavdestinations.com

About How2Media. How 2 Media is a 21st Century television production company dedicated to bringing viewers informative, educational, and entertaining television through national cable networks. "World's Greatest!" is a fast-paced, 30-minute tour around the world featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews; some of the most amazing and unique companies, products, people, and travel destinations the world has to offer. http://www.how2media.tv

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?Live Park,? World?s First 4D Avatar Theme Park, Success in Korea

(PRWEB) January 25, 2012

The future of theme parks is here today: 4D avatar technology previously only imagined in movies becomes reality, as new media entertainment company d'strict present the ?Live Park 4D World Tour? at the KINTEX in Ilsan, Gyeonggi-do, Korea. d'strict CEO Choi Eun-seok says, ??Live Park? is d?strict?s grand challenge for the world?s entertainment market.?

4D Avatar Theme Park a Reality Now

The age of the passive theme park attraction has gone. Today two year olds play Xbox games; the silver generation own i-pads and consumers of all ages expect the latest interactive technology across all areas of entertainment. The ?Live Park?4D is a new genre of theme park that pushes the limits of future entertainment.

?Live Park? enables visitors to experience a virtual world previously only seen in movies like ?Minority Report? and ?Avatar.? Mixed reality architecture allows the visitor to create an avatar and become the main character in a unique adventure. With interactive game elements as well as installation art, the visitor creates their own story in augmented reality.

The 10,000 square meter space represents an investment of $ 13 million over 2 years and can accommodate up to 3,000 visitors at any one time or 10,000 visitors a day. Open to the public since December 2011, the ?Live Park 4D World Tour? has been such a success that d?strict plan to extend the Season 1 Tour at KINTEX.

The ?Live Park?

?Live Park? is composed of 65 attractions over 7 thematic stages and uses state of the art 3D video, holograms and augmented reality technology to create a seamless story. Visitors and their avatars move through the theme park?s stages interacting with the attractions using RFID wristbands and kinect sensors to recognize their gestures, voices and faces. Highlights include:

????The ?Ender Mirror?- visitors create their own look-alike avatar and take photos by laughing at a mirror loaded with a ?smile engine.?

?????Live360?- the world?s biggest interactive 360 degree stereoscopic theatre. Shouting and running together alongside their avatars, visitors can directly experience a realistic video game with multiple story endings in a huge space.

?????Live Square? - allows visitors to enjoy the world?s most advanced avatar game in the world?s largest interactive projection square stretching over 150 meters.

?????Live Holo? - holograms created by a collaboration between d?strict and domestic and overseas artists including David Garrett, Boxer Rebellion and 2NE1.

?????Syno Star Performance? - visitors perform with their avatars in augmented reality on the hologram stage.

?????Mega Live Event? - ?Live Park? is transformed into an evening entertainment venue providing unconventional performances, events and exhibitions in co-operation with top Rave DJs, artists, clubs, brands and fashion magazines.

The Future

d?strict are looking to expand overseas by licensing ?Live Park? to potential partners, and already have plans to create permanent facilities for ?Live Park? in China and Singapore. In addition, the company has been selected as a preferred bidder for a $ 1 billion multi-purpose theme park resort due to open in 2015 within the Asian region.

Bryan Lee, Live Park North America General Manager says, ?d?strict is under MOU with a Hollywood entertainment powerhouse and their global IP to develop a themed entertainment destination in Las Vegas and L.A. area. An official announcement is expected in March in L.A regarding the US license.? He continues, ?Last year James Cameron announced plans for an ?Avatar? themed land at Disney?s Animal Kingdom to begin construction in 2013. With ?Live Park?, d?strict have created a 4D avatar theme park that?s here today! ?

About d?strict:

Founded in 2000, d?strict has become one of the world?s leading 4D creative companies. Based in New York and Seoul, d'strict has been creating revolutionary, award winning UX products and solutions by bringing together next generation technologies such as gesture and sound sensing, motion capture and vision processing, as well as multi-touch interfaces with future display, R&D outputs including 3D holographic movies, stereoscopic 3D motion video, architectural display and dome displays.

d?strict is the sole distributer, developer, producer, and presenter of the ?Live Park? global service, a game changing theme park and entertainment platform in which visitors can physically participate and interact with various 4D adventure platforms.

Contact Point:

Business Inquiry

Bryan Lee bryan.lee(at)dstrict(dot)com

PR Inquiry

Andrew Kim pr(at)dstrict(dot)com

Website: http://www.thelivepark.com

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