If nothing else, the
custom installation professionals at Calgary, Alberta-based Creative TSI are innovators. If they’re two things, then they’re also
people who know how to have a good time.
They’ve proven this by teaming with the award-winning homebuilders at
Astoria Custom Homes to create a truly one-of-a-kind home entertainment
experience room that uses the ELAN g! Entertainment and Control System to make
gaming, movies and partying easier and more fun than ever.
Triggered by simply docking an ELAN g!Mobile-equipped iPad 2 in a magnetic
Launchport dock, this room comes to life and automatically turns on the Runco
LS-HB hi-def projector, club-style pinpoint lights and Xbox 360 with Kinect, brings
up the house lights, starts a hidden fog machine and completely preps the room
for an amazing movie night, dance party or gaming session. With an entire wall occupied by a 151-inch
Da-Lite Cinema Contour Screen and motion-based control through the Kinect
device, the room presents an augmented reality environment that proves home entertainment is no
longer a strictly passive experience.
In conjunction with Runco, the
enormous screen was made possible using a precision optical dual-mirror rear
projection system, so the projector isn’t located inside the room, but instead in
a room adjacent to it.
That was important to Creative TSI President John
Lattion, who said “You can't achieve this
kind of functionality with a projector in the usual location in back of the
room, as the players would obscure the projector’s output by standing/jumping
in the play area, and the fog machine would obscure projection output as
well. Perhaps even more beneficial for
the homeowners, the room is completely void of any equipment that can be seen!
All you can see is the iPad/Launchport and the screen. Everything else is
recessed or hidden.”
To make the most of the 2012
Street of Dreams at Willow Creek at Bearspaw home design event, Creative TSI really
did get creative, designing this truly amazing augmented reality room that
combines technologies from ELAN Home Systems, Runco and Microsoft. The 6-week home event features four of the
area’s leading homebuilders, who each teamed up with their own subcontractors
to make their home’s landscaping, interior design and cutting-edge technology stand
out from the rest.
“No one else in the world
has seen a system like this before,” said Lattion. “The ELAN g! System is so
powerful and easy to use that it has a lot of wow-factor all by itself, but we
took it a step further by integrating the new Launchpad in-wall iPad 2
dock. With it we are able to trigger
pre-set scenes in the ELAN g! System in several rooms of the house by simply
docking the iPad 2 on the wall. It’s
super easy because it’s magnetic and has inductive charging, so there’s no
cables to worry about. This way the
homeowner can simply walk into any room, dock the iPad 2 on the wall, and
everything—the lights, TV, sound system, game console, heat—turns on to the
perfect preset conditions.
“We want to show everyone
how far home technology has come, and how fun and easy home entertainment and
control can be, and that’s why we created this room, which we’ve come to call
the ‘Holodeck’,” Lattion said. “Our clients love the ELAN g! System because
it’s so easy to use, while costing a lot less to install than other automation
systems. So anything we can do to make
it easier is just icing. And the home
theater experience room we designed shows that when you’re using the latest and
greatest equipment, a little creativity can go a long way.
“The Microsoft Kinect device will play a big role in the entertainment
room in some pretty creative ways to show the versatility of the technology,
and we invite people to come to the home and experience it for themselves,” Lattion
continued. “Bringing together all of
these cutting-edge technologies will show people how much easier and more fun
their homes can be, and that these types of entertainment and control systems
are no longer luxury items. Homeowners
can install an ELAN g! System like this one for a couple thousand dollars.
That’s less than some high-end kitchen appliances!”
The $2.6 million home was
designed and built by Astoria Custom Homes, Alberta’s premier custom
homebuilder.
According to Astoria co-owner
Jim Stinson, “In just a few short years, homeowners’ media needs have evolved
from speaker systems to TV media rooms to full home entertainment and control
systems that provide media, security, and a host of other features at the touch
of a smartphone or tablet. On the Street of Dreams project, Creative TSI helped
us stand apart with their ‘Holodeck’ room and the ELAN g! System throughout the
house. At Astoria Custom Homes, every
aspect of every home we build is guaranteed to be of uncompromising quality,
and today that includes having an advanced home entertainment and control
system like ELAN g!”
The Astoria Custom Homes house
at the Street of Dreams home design event features a whole-house Centralite
Jetstream lighting system, DSC security system, a total of 14 audio zones with
24 ELAN in-ceiling speakers and 4 ELAN outdoor speakers, 4 wall-mounted Samsung
LCD TVs, 3 Launchport wall docks and one tabletop Launchport dock that each
activate room-specific, pre-programmed ELAN g! scenes for lighting, heating and
entertainment. Also integrated with the
ELAN g! System are 3 Honeywell surveillance cameras, a smoke detector and a
carbon monoxide detector. The home is
prewired for a prospective buyer to add climate controls and additional TVs,
speakers and in-wall ELAN g! touch screens or iPads.
The Street of Dreams is
an internationally acclaimed lifestyle and home design event that is utilizing
Willow Creek at Bearspaw for one of its 2012 events, and it will attract more
than 30,000 visitors to tour the homes.
The event runs from May 19 to July 1, 2012 and features four homes of
4,000-5,000 square feet, each with the latest in interior design, artistic
landscaping and state-of-the-art technology.
Guests are invited to explore the properties for design ideas, to experience
innovative and exciting home entertainment packages and pick up new lifestyle
concepts that can be applied to their own homes. For show dates, times, tickets
and more information visit www.streetofdreams.com.
The ELAN g! Entertainment and Control
System provides users with the most uniform and intuitive icon-based control
from their favorite devices including TVs, touchscreens, touchpads, PCs,
iPhones and iPads. The standardized interface works across platforms, so that
the trendy g!Mobile app users love on the iPhone appears and works similarly on
ELAN touchscreens, valets and handheld remotes as well as users' televisions
and mobile devices. And the system's IP backbone makes it just as easy to control
the system from across the room - or across the globe.
Individual "apps" for each
subsystem allow the user to control security, climate, lighting, media,
irrigation, pool/spa, messaging, video and photos with the flick of a finger.
Access is fast and secure through any ELAN home interface or globally with
mobile Internet enabled devices like the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Netbooks and
PC Tablets. Since the intuitive interface empowers users with personalized
scheduling and detailed history views, high consumption subsystems like
lighting and climate can be closely monitored and managed for a greener
lifestyle - and substantial energy savings.
About Astoria Custom Homes:
Astoria Custom Homes, based in Calgary, Alberta, is owned
by Darrell Haase and Jim Stinson, who together have more than 55 years of
combined experience in new home construction and land development. They are
actively involved in the process of building your custom home. When you build a
custom home with Astoria you deal directly with the President, Vice President,
Site Manager, and Designer. Astoria
takes pride in being a custom homebuilder focused on relationships with its
customers. Because they build less than
30 homes per year, Astoria maintains a standard of quality and attention to
detail that is unmatched by higher volume homebuilders. Visit www.astoriahomes.ca for more information.
About Creative
TSI:
Creative TSI uses the latest technology and exceptional customer
service to create home solutions since that provide the comfort and lifestyle
that brings families together. Since
1997, the company has been offering homebuilders and homeowners the latest
technologies at affordable prices and designs every home system to meet each
client’s exact needs and desires. For more information visit www.creativetsi.com or call 403-255-3850.
About ELAN Home Systems:
Since 1990 ELAN® Home Systems has
been an industry leading manufacturer of innovative, award-winning Multi-Room
audio/video systems. ELAN systems were the first to integrate audio, video,
phones and third-party products to create a seamless, easy-to-use "whole
house" solution. ELAN systems and products are distributed through a
comprehensive channel of select Dealers and Distributors throughout the United
States, Canada and more than 58 countries worldwide. ELAN Home Systems is part
of The AVC Group. To learn more visit www.elanhomesystems.com.
About The AVC Group,
LLC:
Headquartered
in Carlsbad, California, The AVC Group,
LLC is a portfolio of pre-eminent manufacturers and marketers of
state-of-the-art consumer and commercial audio, video, and control system
solutions. The AVC Group is comprised of
the following industry leading brands: Niles®,
ELAN® Home Systems, Xantech®, ATON®
and Sunfire®. The AVC Group, LLC is a
subsidiary of Nortek, Inc.’s Home
Technology Group.
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