The Virtual Wild

Project Details

Hewlett Packard Enterprise wanted to create an immersive experience that provided an overview of their solutions to common enterprise challenges.

Working with the producers of the project, 900lbs, we helped create the interactive touch table and user experience design. ‘Elevation’ is a 20-minute experience that takes 10 participants on an expedition to the peak of an immense mountain. Along the way, challenges are presented to the participants who need to work together to overcome the problem. By the time the participants reach the summit, they have a clear understanding of how their enterprise’s challenges are solved with the right solutions provided by our client.

The trek is ambassador led and uses a 12-foot long interactive touch table, 18-foot wide projection screens, and synchronized lighting queues. The results have been resoundingly positive from both the various internal departments and participants alike.

Project Details

This project in the news:

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/25-Million-Makeover-at-River-Legacy-Living-Science-Center-Complete-Opens-Monday-471613103.html

We teamed up with 900lbs and Delcom to create and build an interactive wall at the River Legacy Living Science Center in Arlington Tx. River Legacy wanted to help patrons learn about native plants and wildlife in an effort to foster new stewards who will help preserve parklands.

The exhibit enables kids and adults to interact with dozens of digital plants and animals as they would in their natural habitat. It features a 30ft. long interactive wall, multiple motion-tracking cameras, custom animations, and games. Among many things, visitors move their bodies and wave their arms to splash water, play with fireflies, feed animals, help fungus grow, etc. The wall constantly transitions from one season to the next to help illustrate these ever-changing environments.

CHALLENGE:

Dynetics, a subsidiary of Leidos, and a global leader in IT, Aerospace, and Defense technologies is competing to put the first woman on the moon. Their Human Landing System, referred to as the “HLS”, is one of 3 aircraft bidding to NASA to be chosen for the 2024 Artemis Missions. In a tightly contested race and one during a global pandemic, Dynetics needed an innovative way to showcase and market their aircraft to Nasa. In the past, a physical life-size model would be built and shipped from tradeshow to events to demonstrate the aircraft. Now the requirement was a digital, easily sharable experience that would work across many devices, and was due in 10 weeks. 

SOLUTION: 

The Virtual Wild created an interactive website experience that visualizes the aircraft’s mission and provides hands-on exploration of its design features. Accessible across mobile, tablet, and desktop devices, this highly shareable and innovative solution also has an Augmented Reality component to visualize the aircraft in your own backyard. Utilizing the latest in Web-GL and three.js technologies, The Virtual Wild conceived, designed, and executed the complete project, on budget and on time, and is proud to help support a global leader in their quest to expand human-kinds presence in space.