page_title: Experience + Innocence Tour
section_title: Set design and show production
hierarchical_section_title: Experience + Innocence Tour / Set design and show production
caption_attribution_description: English: U2 lead singer Bono looking into an iPad as he portrays his stage character MacPhisto during the band's performance at SAP Center in San Jose, California on May 7, 2018 during the Experience + Innocence Tour
context_page_description: The Experience + Innocence Tour was a worldwide concert tour by rock band U2. Staged in support of the band's 2017 album, Songs of Experience, the tour visited arenas throughout 2018. Comprising two legs and 60 concerts, the Experience + Innocence Tour visited North America from May through July, and Europe from August through November. It began on 2 May 2018 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and ended on 13 November 2018 in Berlin, Germany. The tour followed U2's 2015 Innocence + Experience Tour as the second in a pair of tours in support of the group's companion albums, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.
  The 2018 tour reprised the loose autobiographical narrative from the 2015 tour, along with the original's multifaceted stage comprising a rectangular main stage, circular B-stage, connecting walkway, and doubled-sided LED video screen with an interior walkway. Several enhancements were made to the set, such as a higher resolution and more transparent video screen and the addition of LED panels to the B-stage floor.
context_section_description: The tour reprised the same multi-faceted stage setup from the Innocence + Experience Tour. At one end of the venue was the rectangular main stage, which measured 19.4 metres (64 ft) wide by 10.8 metres (35 ft) deep. At the opposite end was a circular B-stage, which measured 7.3 metres (24 ft) in diameter. Connecting the two stages was a 36.5-metre-long (120 ft) walkway. Suspended above it was a double-sided LED screen with an interior walkway, called the "barricage", which measured 29 metres (95 ft) long by 7 metres (23 ft) high.
  Several technological enhancements were made over the original version of the set. PRG's Pure10 video panels featured a pixel pitch of 10 millimetres (0.39 in), which alone nearly tripled the display resolution of the "barricage" screen and thus enabled an AR event to be triggered. Ordinarily, this would have decreased the transparency of the display, since the printed circuit boards (PCBs) attached to the LED panels were moved closer together. PRG solved this problem by slicing the PCBs into strips, rotating them 90 degrees, and mounting the LEDs on the sides. Jeroen Hallaert, director of PRG Projects North America, explained that the result was "giant venetian blind" that provided 75 percent transparency, compared to the 45 percent transparency of the original screen. Overall, the video screen for the 2018 tour had a resolution nine times greater than the original. The Pure10 video tiles were 1 m × 2 m (3 ft 3 in × 6 ft 7 in) and were about a quarter the thickness of those from the 2015 tour.
  PRG used their experience building the SPACEFRAME framing system for U2's Joshua Tree Tour 2017 to design a carbon fibre structure to hold the Pure10 panels, rather than one made from conventional metal. This reduced the weight by almost 2 pounds per square foot (9.8 kg/m²) of panels, resulting in a total weight reduction of almost half. As a result, the number of trucks needed for transportation was also halved, compared to the Innocence + Experience Tour. The "barricage" weighed 45,000 pounds (20,000 kg), and was suspended by eight hoist motors by Tait, each weighing 3 short tons (2.7 t), built into a custom truss. With the weight reduction of the "barricage", the interior walkway could move independently from the two video displays, compared to the 2015 version; the 18 Tait Nav Hoists built into a truss inside the structure allowed the walkway to be raised, lowered, or tilted by 5 degrees. Other Tait products built into the interior truss were: a T-Winch, to raise and lower a staircase near the main stage; a Nav Hoist, to control a "performer platform" near the B-stage; and a Big Tow Winch, to raise and lower a drum set inside the structure.
  The B-stage at the end of walkway was upgraded from the 2015 tour to include high-definition LED displays in the floor. To accommodate the B-stage's round shape, PRG upgraded its Rolling Video Floor Riser product that had been unveiled in 2017. Each riser contained two ROE Visual Black Marble LED units with a 4 mm (0.16 in) pixel pitch. The risers had built-in magnets, allowing the tour crew to quickly set them up—1,076 sq ft (100 m²) of flooring could be assembled in under 20 minutes. The risers were transported in custom 1.6-metre-tall (5.2 ft) dollies, enabling them to be shipped via air cargo for significant cost savings. Above the B-stage, an "automation grid" featured a Smart Winch and six Nav Hoists by Tait to vertically move props, such as an LED ring, a light bulb, and a mirror ball.
  The AR segment of the show was viewed using the "U2 Experience" mobile app for iOS and Android devices, which overlaid computer generated imagery over footage captured by a phone's camera. The AR event was triggered by pointing the camera at the "barricage" video screens while they were displaying charcoal drawings. Fans can also trigger it by pointing their phone's camera at the Songs of Experience album cover. Long-time U2 stage designer Willie Williams collaborated with Nexus Studios on the AR technology and with Treatment Studio to design the 3D avatar of Bono. During the 
caption: Bono portraying his stage character MacPhisto, whose facial image was applied on the video screens as an AR video filter
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