The promise of telepresence and social media has come up short in the human connection department. Communicating with loved ones in deep space will take much more than science & technology. To avert the devastation of isolation suffered by loved ones exploring Mars, we need to find ways to increase the human connection and…
Simulated living quarters on Mars (left) compared to solitary confinement (right) We don’t tell our entertainment clients that hire us to design adventures on Mars about our work exploring real-life on Mars. The difference between fantasy and reality is so stark, it just may kill all of the enthusiasm of their project. However for us,…
Isolation and “Conversational Story Creation” We are alone in our own thoughts. We become a prisoner of our own mind when we can not communicate. An expression of our ideas and dreams does not make us any less lonely. We need to bond with one another to expose our loneliness and disrobe our vulnerability. We…
As much as the idea of Virtual Reality (VR) Arcades excites us, should we not consider that these are two concepts have already died a dramatic death in the marketplace before? So it seems that these businesses and products have come and gone. Now we are putting them together at IAAPA like we did…
Mission LEAP: Mission LEAP (Lunar Expedition for Astronaut Pioneers) is a unique approach to museum exhibit design that uses a combination of story, play, and game to engage the audience in a role-playing and cooperative problem solving environment. We prototyped the entire exhibit and invited kids from a local school to interact, as if they…
The Simiosys’s creative studio, Amuseo, presents their new marketing solution, the ShowVRoom. This novel retail Point of Purchase (PoP) kiosk provides a whole new level of brand experience with your customers. After years of experimental field tests in community venues, we are able to reach and engage consumers at a new level of enticement. We…
Some of our research has led to the development of certain prototypical products that we use as benchmarks and building blocks in our consulting and design work. Concepts are first prototyped in the lab, where wegather information in order to inform our theories and feed back into lab research and development. Phydgital Interspace The Phydgtial…