Visioneering Helps Special Children Visioneering Helps Special Children Visioneering International, Inc., a video technology company, teamed up with architects Stanley, Beaman & Sears to create an innovative plan for incorporating education and entertainment into both Egleston Children's Hospital and the Children's Medical Center at the Medical College of Georgia. The team's in-depth examination of a child's life in the hospital led to the inception and development of a new concept in children's hospital care. The third floor of Egleston Children's Hospital is devoted to cancer patients. The special inpatient and outpatient treatment center, sponsored in part by Georgia based AFLAC insurance company, serves children ranging from infancy to eighteen-years-old who cannot travel or go outside during time there for chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants. Visioneering's solution permits then to escape in a "spaceship" - their own cozy movie theater in the third-floor lobby. Phase three will contain exploration to "Otherwares," where the children will be able to transport themselves into an open universe incorporating natural scenery. Beyond the lobby there are four separate videowalls creating a moving, stained glass window of color and light near the inpatient and outpatient care areas. Each video wall represents a different theme in nature - sea sky, space, and land.

Al Giddings, whose cinematography credits include The Abyss and Titanic, donated imagery of trees, mountain, and forests as well as his specialty, underwater photography. Other cinematographers contributed footage of sky and clouds, and NASA even brought the planets and stars to the children's hospital. One of the centerpieces of the Children's Medical Center at the Medical College of Georgia is the video aquarium. The 33-monitor video aquarium is in the two story lobby of the $53 million, award winning facility. On the second floor, which has a balcony overlooking the lobby, the pathway to all treatment areas is a "technology arbor" with sights and sounds that capture a child's imagination. The three tree-like "video totems" mark the destination to specific treatment rooms and feature waterfalls and the seasons. The project team also included sound design by Lee Sound Design, video wall programming by Fury 13 and technical services by North Georgia Sound. Cinematography was also generously contributed by Al Giddings, IMAGES, Inc., Producers Library Service, Cole Media, Inc., Sunburnt Pictures, Image Bank, The Windham Hill Group, NASA Johnson Space Center, iXL, Inc., and Energy Film Library.