“Visual Stimuli”, “Spatialized”, “Natural Fragrances”: The next meeting of the candidate of France Insouchaise (LFI) reserves its share of technological innovations, before the return of the holograms on April 5th.
Le Monde with AFP
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, which embarks for his third presidential election, nor is his test at the deployment of technological innovations. For his next strong weather, which will take place on January 16 at the Nantes Exhibition Center, the latter promises an “immersive” meeting that will gather 3,000 people. A complex and sophisticated device, which the campaign team of the head of France Insouchaise (LFI) presented, Wednesday, January 5, to the press.
“cubes” of giant screens, customized LED light device, 360 ° image diffusion and even odors: the presidential election candidate promises a “show” unpublished, five years after he held his First simultaneous meetings by diffusion of holograms and one year after its first gathering actually animated in virtual reality. If the meeting is maintained in the fifth wave of COVID-19, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s campaign team is committed to distributing FFP2 masks to participants.
“In a hall, we will build a structure that can hold 3,000 people, a kind of cube 50 meters wide over six meters high, all of which will be screens on which 16 video projectors will project images in [Definition] 28k, “said Wednesday, the member LFI Bastien Lachaud. “Added to this will be 96 square meters of LED panels on the ceiling that will complete the immersion,” he pursued, a means, according to him, to “immerse the spectators in different universes related to the themes of the speech” of M . Mélenchon.
Return of the meetings by holograms of the candidate on April 5
“Visual stimuli will be accompanied by a spatialized sound” and “natural fragrances” broadcast in the room “as and when speeches”, in order to “project both our candidate and our ideas in the Future we want the most progressive and positive possible “, also argued the hon. Member. According to his colleague of the benches of the Palais-Bourbon Clementine AUtain, “this innovative and modern technology” will allow the 3,000 sympathizers of Mr. Mélenchon gathered, to “feel emotions affiliated to their” project of the after “.
In the scenographic device, Jean-Luc Mélenchon will be in the center of the crowd. In the first part of the meeting, which will begin at 2 pm, fragments of philosophical, political, literary texts and poems will be read by members of the Parliament of the People’s Union, a group of 200 personalities of the associative field, trade union, intellectual and artistic who joined the candidate’s campaign. Mr Mélenchon will intervene afterwards, to restore “the main axes of his campaign,” explained M me
By the end of January, the presidential election candidate has planned two other meetings: one in Strasbourg, the 19th, the other in Bordeaux, 24. The Holograms of M. Mélenchon will be back for his last campaign during a great meeting scheduled for April 5th, five days before the first round. This will allow the rally to “stand simultaneously in seven large areas” of France, announced Mr. Lachaud.