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Kelly Tarlton's Antarctica Encounter and Underwater WorldThe installation of two, world-leading, interactive media exhibits for the new Stingray Bay area of Kelly Tarlton's Antarctica Encounter and Underwater World was successfully completed by The Complete Package Ltd This is the first time in New Zealand that such information about our marine life has been made available in a touchscreen format. For visitors wanting to get information about the New Zealand rays and selected fish found in the Stingray Bay exhibit, Kelly Tarlton’s now has the best interactive media exhibits in the country. The Interactive Rays Touchscreens exhibit features two giant, back-lit panels with static images of the topside and underside of a short tailed stingray. By touching parts of a ray on a panel, details are displayed on an LCD display built into the exhibit. For example, if a visitor wants to know details of the ray’s barb, they simply touch that area on the giant illustration and then watch the details on the 32” LCD display. Local touch technology developer, Next Window supplied all New Zealand made componentry to touch enable the screens. Also assisting on the project was enclosure manufacturer, Rodier Menu and Display Systems. Illustrator Stephen Ellis did a fantastic job and graphic design by Ryan Herbert was outstanding.
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The Stingray Bay Touchscreens are ten 12” touchscreen monitors
that visitors to Kelly Tarlton’s use to find details of
the rays and fish of Stingray Bay . Being interactive and touch controlled,
the system makes finding out about such things as a ray’s habitat,
characteristics and defense extremely easy. 
At 2.0 metres by 1.4 metres, the two touchscreens are possibly the
largest in the world. Although they are not conventional touchscreens
with images changing on the screen, they control the images on the
attached LCD displays. Designed and built in Auckland , the scale of
the Stingray Bay exhibit is a technology breakthrough for touch-controlled
media. They are an exciting new way of story telling.