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    Where is it available?

    For rental, the IVL™ Lighting is available in France, Germany, Spain, the UK and Sweden.

    For purchase, the IVL™ Lighting is available in France, Finland, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia,  Benelux, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand.

    With our global expansion, this list is constantly expanding and the IVL™ Lighting should be available to you soon. Please contact us for more information on your country.

    What is the cost?

    To know the purchase cost of the IVL™ Carré or the IVL™ Pyramide, please contact us or your nearest distributor.

    How is it controllable?

    With 2 modes (25 and 45 channels), the IVL™ Lighting is fully DMX controllable with any standard console. There’s no need to learn a new software thanks to its intuitive programming.

    Just one click away you can find an online resource center with fixture profiles for MA, Chamsys, Hog, Avolites, default shows, video tutorials and more!

    Are IVL™ Lighting fixtures as safe as other lighting?

    Any lighting can be dangerous if wrongly used, especially with brighter and brighter fixtures.

    IVL™ Lighting is compliant with the IEC60825. The IEC60825 describes how to determine the safety distance of a laser-based technology for a safe immersion of the audience.

    To use IVL™, IEC60825 recommends standard safety precautions like any other devices:

    • Not to look directly to the product for technical crews and artists within 2m
    • A safety distance of a few meters for the audience (exact distance depends on the position of the fixture)
    • Barriers to prevent stage access during the show
    • Unlike “laser effect”, no need for highly trained laser safety experts and no need of pre-show safety testing for audience effects at every venue

    As soon as the IEC60825 regulatory recommendations are respected, IVL™ lighting is as safe as any other lighting devices

    When to use IVL™ Lighting?

    The IVL™ Lighting has been designed for experience.

    First of all it has a perfectly calibrated output which allows for a smooth immersive feeling while being completely safe and comfortable to look at.

    Then, the IVL™ Lighting is an innovative tool to bring advanced shapes, immersion and versatility to your designs.

    Whether it is used for all the times when brightness is not the adequate tool to create a special atmosphere, render an emotion, woah the audience or for the venues where designed-for-brightness products offer too limited options: either too bright, not immersive enough, too directional, or too heavy.

    Why is IVL™ Lighting a time and cost-effective solution?

    These high-end products are both light and robust.

    Beside the light weight of each fixture, fewer units than usual lighting are needed to create astonishing designs, which results in less substantial logistics since it requires no heavy structure.

    All of that put together enables a gain of time and cost in terms of travel, storage, set up and dismantling.

    On top of that, this time and cost-effective solution is low maintenance. Its electronical mechanism is as reliable as it is simple and the fixtures are easy to clean on the road.

    To talk more about cost, let’s have a look at the global cost of a solution for creative lighting experience.

    Why is IVL™ Lighting not a « laser-effect » ?

    Everyone has the experience of waving their finger through a candle flame. Even though the flame is hot, the motion of finger reduces the temperature on the skin. The same is true for IVL™’s scanning technology. The IVL™ technology always ensures a constant scanning rate with a special redundant safety system. In this way, the IVL™ technology transforms the laser light source into a new category of lighting with unique shapes, unique textures, unique immersion, and a standard safety.

    Indeed, the safe eye exposure distance is always a constant. As for any other lighting fixtures, the only safety precaution is to respect that safe eye exposure distance of a few meters.

    This is unlike existing audience scanning (AS) effects whose safety depends upon 5 or 6 adjustable parameters, which must be calculated and tested by AS experts after each effect is programmed or changed.

    That’s why, with IVL™ lighting, no need for highly trained ‘laser light show’ safety experts and no need of pre-show safety testing for audience effects at every venue.

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