"Megascreen is an unique attempt to create the world's largest computer display by showing graphics simultaneously on all of ASSEMBLY's 3000 computers! All of the computers in the Arena are synchronized and it's time to show demo effects on all of them simultaneously. All you need to do is to turn on your computer, point your browser to the right address and watch the show!"
- http://www.assembly.org/summer08/news/general/megascreen/
Actually, there were only ~1000 screens used for the presentation and altough there were some slight technical difficulties, not the slightest being that in one spot there were no running computers at all, it turned out pretty nice.
Megascreen was organized by Nokia & N-gage at Assembly, one of the worlds largest demoscene events, held annually @ Hartwall Arena, Helsinki
Video of the event can be viewed here: http://www.assembly.org/summer08/news/general/watch-megascreen
Yeah, did an item about this already after someone from Nokia contacted us:
http://www.allaboutngage.com/news/item/7766_The_Megascreen_Snake_on_3000_c.php
It's odd though: the official video talks about 975 computers, Nokia's PR said it was 3000 computers, and someone else posted on the story comments anonymously that it was 2000 computers.
Did anyone get an official count for the number involved?
It doesn't matter that much though, it still looks impressive however many screens were involved.
altough there were some slight technical difficulties, not the slightest being that in one spot there were no running computers at all, it turned out pretty nice.
Yeah, you could tell there were some gaps in the "screen", but like you say it generally worked amazingly. The more complex images maybe got a bit distorted, but the monochrome ones looked very good indeed.
It must have been an incredible experience to see this in real life! 😊