Long Beach City College (LBCC) in California has opened a new Esports facility on its Liberal Arts Campus that relies on Extron AV control technology and NAV Pro AV over IP for switching and distribution of gaming content.
The gaming floor seats 47 players at Alienware gaming stations. Coaches monitor and advise players from five mobile stations that plug into the network at Extron connection boxes at the end of each team table.
A shoutcaster booth with twin 65-in flat panel displays seats a production and announcer staff of two. Designed and built by California firms HPI Architecture, P2S Engineering, and EKC Enterprises, with assistance from Extron, and under supervision of the LBCC Multimedia Technologies staff, the facility provides LBCC's Esports teams their own top-flight home field that replaces the gaming space they previously borrowed at a nearby high school.
NAV scaling decoders provide the AV content from the network to the many displays around the facility in 4K clarity, as well as streaming to internet gaming platforms like Twitch or YouTube via OBS Studio. MGP 641 xi multi-window processors let the production team create split screen presentations of up to eight source windows on any display to keep audiences glued to their screens viewing gaming action.