Billed as "a new nightlife experience" and created by international lifestyle brand Hakkasan Group, Omnia is situated on The Strip in the world famous Caesar's Palace. Designed by the internationally renowned Rockwell Group, the club spans 75,000sq.ft and prides itself on offering state-of-the-art technology. The club launched with a star-studded party featuring Calvin Harris on DJ duty in March 2015.
Frank Murray from Audiotek supplied and oversaw the AV aspects of the project, working alongside Avolites' Ai developer Ciaran Abrams, who provided support for Ai as it was installed and programmed.
Three Avolites Ai EX8 servers are powering visuals in the opulent main room of the club, which features a huge chandelier as the centrepiece of the venue. The chandelier morphs into different shapes, angles and levels. The entire project is said to feature more than ten tonnes of LED wall.
"This was a project on a huge scale, which presented many challenges as the system had to be incredibly flexible to handle many different demands," says Abrams. "For example, mapping was a big task. Different elements required different mapping solutions - the chandelier was a particular creative challenge, fully utilising the feature set of Ai. The cascades and mezzanine areas of the room were also very complex. Using Ai, we were able to create a 3D representation of the pixels and import that information."
Speaking after the clubs completion and opening, Avolites MD Steve Warren commented, "Omnia is truly one of the most spectacular installations I have seen in my many years in the industry. I am also convinced that this particularly demanding project could only have been accomplished using Ai media servers.
"Having worked before on superclubs in London with Frank, the Audiotek team have significantly raised the bar for Vegas and we at Avolites are proud to have supplied the significant part of the lighting and video solution to Omnia."
(Jim Evans)
