It is the tradition to hold the Lantern Festival on 15th day of the first month of the Chinese Lunar Calendar every year in Chinese-culture influenced countries and society. Chiayi County, Taiwan, won the privilege to host the event of the year in 2018. The 2018 Taiwan Lantern Festival had a grand opening on 2nd March and was on till 11th March 2018 in Chiayi, Taiwan.
The Chiayi 2018 Lantern Festival that was hosted and organized by the Chiayi Government to showcase versatile lanterns at the venue covering more than 50 hectares of landscape that presents the sign of the year (Dog) with theme visions which represented Chiayi and the land of Taiwan. The 2018 Lantern Festival Brings together tourism, technology, culture and art to manifest renewed traditions and creativity as a ground-breaking “smart” event.
For the vision of the grand event this year, the organizer of the Lantern festival adapted the latest developments from both Vivotek and Geovision. Vivotek has sponsored the event with their very new 180-degree panoramic network cameras, MS9390-HV and MS8392-EV, as well as their 3D network camera(SC-8131). There are four (4) 180° panoramic cameras installed at high poles to provide real time panoramic scene at 24/7 at the control room of the County Government. The Vivotek SC-8131 3D network camera to be applied at the National Palace Museum Hall at the Festival. There are 2 SC-8131 installed that one at the entrance and another at the exit of the hall to calculate visitors in to the hall real-time with 98%+ accuracy.
Geovision sponsored the event with their GV-VR360 Virtual Reality Network Camera. The GV-VR360 features dual lenses record the entire world around you. It creates interactive 360° video in 4K quality and supports real-time VR 360 degree live video streaming sharing on Youtube. With Intelligent IR design, the AE and IR LED brightness perform gracefully together to get best image quality. It supports build-in mic with water resistance. (IP67 certified). There were 4 theme parks of the Festival where Geovision installed the GV-VR360 to upstream live scenes at all time; senior visitors could sit at VR experiencing booths of the event to view live activities happening at these theme lantern parks with VR glasses.
