Retractable Screen / Space Requirements

[remy4484]

I am planning a dual purpose theater room and golf simulator. The components of the simulator will likely be separate for best effect, but spacing is limited. The room itself will be much longer, but I have 13'6" length x 17'9 width x 9'4 inch height left for the simulator.

1) Can I make it work with that length? There will be theater chairs behind that space and a fixed screen behind the impact screen.
2) I left 2' of room between the theater screen and drop down impact screen. Is that right, too much, too little?
3) Do my size limitations limit me on simulators? Any recommendations here? Any articles that compare everything there is to offer and pluses and minuses?
4) Recommendations for a drop down screen people like that is acoustically transparent as well?



Thanks in advance for the help!

[dinho]

Following this as I'm looking at something similar. particularly interested in how to have a projector work on both the impact screen and the theater screen (from different distances)

[goferz]

I think you will have to refocus for each screen change which could get annoying.

[remy4484]

I was thinking of having two different projectors for this purpose. A short throw and one in the back of the room for the theater. If 13.5' is enough length. Anyone have any experience here?

[COgolfengineer]

remy4484 13.5ft is very tight. You need at least 7ft from tee to screen and at least 6-7ft behind the tee to allow for the backswing. I would hang a sheet from the ceiling to mimic the impact screen and place some boxes where the seats will go and swing a driver in there and make sure you don't hit the sheet or boxes, and also the ceiling. 2ft of distance between golf screen and movie screen is good, but could probably reduce that down to 1-1.5ft if needed to give you a tad more length. Another option is to swap the movie and impact screen so that would give you more length for golf.

[remy4484]

Redesigning my Layout based on the feedback here. This is a dual purpose Theater and Golf simulator room. Theater is from left to right and simulator is from top to bottom. Am thinking of using a retractable motorized screen but need advice for side protection. See layout below. A few questions:

1. Is 11ft good enough for the screen width? Any issues with any of the dimensions I've laid out. Looking at the EYE XO
2. Anyone have any experience with something like this? https://store.gunghogolf.com/Retractable-Impact-Screens... My concern would be the corner protection and potential damage to drywall if one gets by.
3. Any other ideas for a hidden side wall protection? Was also thinking curtains behind the screen and on tracks that I can pull out from the adjacent room.

[kolky]

A few thoughts on the new design.

- Though it may work I think you may feel a little cramped on the width if you are setting it up for right and left handed golfers and hitting from the middle. If you only have righties you could move your hitting spot off center to give yourself more room.
- How are you planning to mount the projector and the Uneekor for the sim? If ceiling mounting I think they would get in the way of your projection screen for movies since you only have a 9'4" ceiling. I believe the Uneekor XO mounts in front of the golfer while the Uneekor QED mounts behind. The QED may get the sim out of the way more though it still may be a problem depending on the size of your movie screen.
- In this situation you may want to consider floor mounting a short throw projector (optoma / BenQ) in one of the protective cases and also using a floor mounted launch monitor (Skytrak, GCQuad, Trakman) to avoid getting shadows from your other projector. This all depends on the image size you plan on throwing on the main screen. I'm also assuming you would ceiling mount your movie projector which it why you'd need to be careful of the shadows from things hanging on the ceiling.
- Curtains on tracks could work. That is how I have mine set up. You could check out Par2Pro. They make retractable screens and retractable side curtains though those may throw shadows as well.


Do you need seating for 10? Would it be possible to remove that first row and have more of a half moon style seating arrangement? That would open up a lot more room for either scenario.