Argus Bullet Time Rig
Experiential Rigs for Live Events
You bring the crowd… we bring the wow. Guests step in, we capture them from every angle, and a branded clip lands in their hands within moments. Choose classic frozen-time DSLR bullet time for high-impact shareables, or our Argus motion rig for dynamic, cinematic movement through time and space.
Social Media Sharing
Every activation creates a shareable moment.
Once the rig captures a guest’s sequence, our system generates their personalised bullet-time video in seconds. Each clip is automatically branded with your event graphics, intro and outro, and a music track.
Guests enter their email on the tablet beside the rig and their video is sent directly to their inbox via a branded email.
Within moments they have a high-quality clip ready to download and share on social media, turning each participant into a promoter of your event.
Emails can also be captured and provided to you in full compliance with GDPR.
Branding
The bullet time rig itself can become a powerful visual centrepiece for your event.
Our camera arrays can be customised with branded panels, colours, and graphic elements so the installation matches your campaign or brand identity. From subtle logo placement to fully wrapped
structures, the rig can be designed to integrate seamlessly into your event environment.
This ensures that every photo, video, and behind-the-scenes moment captured by guests or event photographers also carries your brand.
The result is an interactive installation that not only creates striking content for participants, but also reinforces your brand presence throughout the experience and across the media shared afterwards.
Expo Stands and Full Set Builds
We offer a complete service covering the design, construction, transport, and installation of sets and exhibition stands. Our team can also manage operation throughout the event, followed by dismantling and secure storage afterwards. Whether you are attending a trade show, conference, or exhibition, we help create distinctive, high-quality displays that present your brand at its best.
Over the past 25 years we have delivered set builds and exhibition installations at major venues including ExCeL London, Olympia London, the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), 3Arena Dublin, the Bilbao Exhibition Centre, and many others.
Millions of Views per Video Are Possible
Many of our videos go viral in a huge way. Many are clocking up still to this day tens of millions of views each.
Argus Rig Patterns
The Argus Rig doesn’t just capture a moment, it decides how you experience it. Every camera records its own video stream, and the playback system selects frames using a timeline graph. Along the graph, left to right represents the cameras, while up and down moves forwards or backwards through time. The line itself dictates which frame from which camera is chosen, weaving the streams together into a seamless sequence.
Fire all cameras at once for the iconic static bullet time, freezing the action while the view glides around it. Trigger them in sequence for a wave of motion rippling across the rig, stretching out a single instant. Draw your own custom graph patterns, jumping back and forth in time, to create rhythms that spotlight movement in unexpected ways. And when the rig is set as a full circle, those frames can be plotted into a continuous 360° spin, letting you orbit the subject with no visible joins. Each pattern transforms the same recording into a completely different way of seeing.
Argus Rig Patterns
Static Pattern
The static pattern is the purest form of bullet time. Every camera fires at the exact same moment, capturing a single frozen instant from every angle. When played back, the sequence stitches these identical time points together, letting the viewer glide around the subject as though time itself has been paused. To enhance the effect, a lead-in and lead-out can be added from any of the cameras, recorded in slow motion, so the frozen moment emerges naturally from real-time motion and then dissolves back into it.
Sequential Pattern
The sequential pattern creates a flowing ripple of motion across the rig. Instead of firing all cameras at once, each one triggers in order with a precise time increment between them, up to 1/240th of a second between each camera. This stretches a fleeting instant into a smooth, unfolding sequence, as the subject appears to move naturally while the viewpoint sweeps around like a camera on a dolly… with no moving objects. Just like with static, lead-in and lead-out options can be added in slow motion, allowing the sequential effect to blend seamlessly into real-time action before and after the camera movement.
360 Pattern
When the rig is built as a full circle, the cameras can spin endlessly around the subject, moving from 1 through 40 and looping back again in a seamless spiral. This rotation can be static, sequential, or even custom, combining different patterns while moving forwards and backwards through time. The result is a continuous orbit that immerses the viewer inside the action from every angle.
Custom Pattern
The custom pattern gives directors complete control. Rather than following a fixed order, each frame can be programmed to jump, pause, or reverse at any point in time or across the array. This flexibility can create erratic, stuttering effects or carefully crafted rhythms that draw attention to a gesture, an impact, or a reaction. By reshaping both time and perspective, custom patterns deliver results that go far beyond static or sequential firing.
Expo Stands and Full Set Builds
How Big Is The Rig?
A small 12 camera rig will need about 2m x 1m.
A medium sized 24 camera rig, needs about 3m x 1.5m
A rig that has 40 cameras (including the full Argus Rig), needs 4m x 2m for the rig, and then the space for the person to stand in.
If you want a 360 degrees rig, that uses up about 6m x 6m exactly.
How long is setup?
Of course this depends on the rig and what we are providing. But if we are just providing a 12 camera rig, then it will be setup in under an hour. if it is a 96 camera full 360 with a full wall, it maybe 6-8hrs setup. We can work through the nights to get rigs setup in shopping malls and will do everything we can to minimise this for your team. And for the strike, we will want to go home, we are usually gone within the hour 🙂
How much power does the rig consume?
Even our largest rigs use a lot less than you would think, maybe 400-600 watts. Which is about the same as a kitchen fridge. So a single 240v, 13amp standard household plug socket will be fine.
What internet do we need?
We have a 5G dingle with us, that works perfect. But if there is no mobile reception, a 20mb or faster wireless connection would be good.
What staff are needed?
We provide very experienced and well presented operating staff, each with many years experience on our equipment. We don’t normally provide brand ambassadors, for queue control etc. But it is something we can help with if this is needed.
How heavy is the rig?
It depends on the size of the rig, but in general a couple of hundred KGs at the most. Smaller rigs, like a 12 camera version may only be 50Kgs, which is about the same as a child stood there.