Matrix Visual Deploys LED Fleet for HPE Discover 2026 with ROE Visual Graphite 2.6 Matrix Visual supplied the LED equipment and technical execution for HPE Discover Las Vegas 2026, at The Venetian Convention and Expo Center. The deployment covered 3,773 active ROE Visual Graphite panels across eight flown walls and four overhead LED groups. August Jackson, the lead agency on the project, tapped Ten Eighty Media & Matrix, who worked together on a system of more than 255 million pixels and roughly 16,622 sq. ft. of LED. Matrix Visual is a specialist LED display provider for corporate productions, trade shows, concerts and festivals nationwide, operating from Orange County, Las Vegas and Nashville. For HPE Discover, the company turned the production's concept into a practical LED system, covering technical design, CAD and wiring plans, equipment preparation, installation, show support and strike. That scope included ROE Visual Graphite panels, Brompton processing, fiber and data distribution, LED support hardware, power distribution and LED crew. "At this scale, preparation is just as important as the panels," says Zack McMurtry, lead LED tech and video engineer at Matrix Visual. "Using full and half Graphite cabinets helped us maintain the planned screen geometry across the flown walls and overhead elements. Keeping the cabinet allocation, hardware, and signal distribution organized was a major part of the job, and it took close coordination between Matrix, Ten Eighty Media, and the creative and media teams to bring those pieces together." The largest surfaces were four 98.5' walls, two flat and two curved, each at a native resolution of 11,520 by 2,304 pixels. They carried iMAG of the presenters, alongside keynote content, and HPE's brand graphics. Four 16,5' by 21.3' vertical walls and overhead LED groups extended the treatment through the space, giving the audience several places to follow the speaker and carrying the brand above the seating area. Holding the planned screen geometry across that much LED came down to cabinet allocation. Graphite GP2.6 comes in full 500 by 1000mm and half 500 x 500mm cabinets, and Matrix combined both throughout the build, with 3,147 full and 626 half cabinets in active use. Graphite headers hung the standard walls, curved steel pipe formed the two curved walls, and a separate system of pipe, clamps and standoffs carried the overhead build. Behind the screens, 48 Brompton Tessera SX40 LED processors and 180 Tessera XD data distribution units carried ten-bit video over a single-mode fiber network. Main runs of up to 200m linked the processing positions to the distributed LED surfaces, with network racks, fiber patch bays, power conditioning and battery backup supporting the infrastructure. Content was played from a Disguise media server system supplied and supported by LMG, feeding the Brompton processing. "HPE Discover is exactly the kind of show Tessera is built for," says Adam Callaway, global lead, technical solutions at Brompton Technology. "With that many LED surfaces spread across the room, every screen had to look consistent with the next, and Matrix's team did an outstanding job keeping the visuals in sync. Brompton processing and ROE Visual are a proven combination, and seeing them perform together at this scale is a real testament to both. We're proud to have been part of such an ambitious show." Matrix handled technical planning and equipment preparation ahead of a core four-day load-in. Matrix and Ten Eighty Media leads then coordinated installation, show support, and strike alongside the creative, content, and server teams. "When you're driving 255 million pixels for a major enterprise event, there is zero room for error. For a global brand, an annual conference is a defining moment, and the technology behind it has to deliver without compromise. HPE Discover demonstrated once again that Disguise is built to power the world's most ambitious corporate installations, giving creative teams the freedom to push boundaries with full confidence in the technology," says Dan Baum, VP of Sales, Americas. The screens design by August Jackson was borne out of a challenge made by the client to create an immersive experience unlike anything attendees had experienced in this venue before. Additionally, the event had utilized Sphere for the Keynotes the two prior years, so this event required an approach to surround the audience with the messaging. It was truly a collaborative effort. August Jackson's Scott Riley served as lead screens producer, supporting the screens strategy and media ecosystem architecture. No Filter Creative led visual development for the presentation content and overall screens look, assisted by August Jackson's animation team. Sibling Rivalry produced video assets for the screen specification, and Randy Gonzalez provided animation for the secondary vertical and horizontal screens. Matrix's role was to turn those requirements into buildable LED sections and a coordinated processing and distribution system. "I was in Las Vegas the same week for InfoComm, and people were already talking about the design and execution at HPE Discover," says Frank Montero, managing director at ROE Visual. "Even knowing how ambitious the project was, the scale still caught me off guard when the photos came in. Nearly 4,000 Graphite panels working as one show is a credit to Matrix's planning and crew, and we're grateful Graphite was the product they chose to build it with." HPE Discover is the kind of project Matrix Visual is built for: an ambitious screens design, a large and varied LED system, and a production team that needs it delivered as drawn. With nearly 4,000 Graphite panels, 48 processors, and a fiber network linking every surface, Matrix turned that design into one coordinated show for over 13,000 attendees to enjoy. 
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