Urban Xperience : UrbanSoccer Nanterre (La Défense)

The experience

A world first designed for UrbanSoccer: Urban Xperience reinvents 5-a-side football (and up to 7!) as a 90-minute immersive experience, from the locker room to the podium. Personalisation, entrance tunnel, a match in a virtual stadium, Sports Bar and replays — every key play becomes a show.

On the touch kiosks, each player picks their team name, kit, number and anthem; their photo becomes an animated player card. Then the immersive corridor and the giant-screen introduction, 2 × 30 minutes of play in a 35,000-seat stadium, and finally the post-match highlights and interviews at the Sports Bar.

A 90-minute experience — from the locker room to the podium.

Immersive experience · Show control · 360° video & sound UrbanSoccer Nanterre (La Défense) — Soft opening 02.07.2026

Show control programming: real-time triggering and synchronisation of video, sound, lighting and effects.

5-a-side football like you've never felt it. Step into the atmosphere of the big games: a personalised 90-minute experience, a world first, where every match is unique — in a 35,000-seat virtual stadium just for your team.

What Darkvalley brought

The show-control core of the setup: a multi-scenario engine that triggers and synchronises the show's sequences in real time — tunnel entrance, team introductions, playing time and after-party — and adapts live to the players' chosen personalization, the crowd's and speaker's reactions, the score and every twist of a soccer match.
Cueing all the partner systems — video (14 projectors forming a 35,000-seat virtual stadium), spatialised 360° sound, lighting, smoke jets at the goals and live generative effects — so every trigger lands in time with the action.
An architecture designed for live: instant recovery of the show if it restarts mid-operation, for identical quality at every session, continuously.

Client: Urban Soccer Nanterre / Compagnie des Alpes · Producer: 5MOTION · Management & production: Sylvain Billion, Nicolas Mollet · Director: David Tessier · Assistant director: Corentin Blond · Technical director: Antoine Pintout · Live generative-effects developer: Lucas Pomot · AI / booking / control-interfaces developer: Gregory Semah · Motion design: The Mill · Sound design & mix: Manu · Video programming & playback: Videmus · Show control: Darkvalley R&D.

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