Prototyping at the major innovation center

USER

FT World

Environment

Live Experiences

Soul

Opening a portal to another dimension

Exhibition mode

Temporary Installation

Location

Shenzhen
Asia

Date

October 18, 2017

Based on a special economic area of Shenzhen. FT World looks beyond the factories and skyscrapers of China's youngest ​metropolis and has turned into the innovation hub of Shenzhen City.

Content

Soul

Content type

Interactive

Environment

Live Experiences

Soul

Opening a portal to another dimension

A man dressed in a futuristic motion-activated LED suit descends into the audience at The Silos auditorium. He trots up to a 10-foot totem pole that pulses red across the stage like the beating of a 52,000-voxel heart. When he reaches the front he stops dead. A dramatic silence of a few seconds is created. The man raises an arm. The movement is reproduced within the volumetric space of the totem. The man takes another step forward and immediately a human figure appears, which seems to be his reflection in the volumetric space. The figure takes becomes alive and turns to the audience in the auditorium: "Shenzhen city, I see you now".

It was Dragon's first public appearance**.**

Software

Mind

Software engines

Prome3
Unreal

PERCEPTION SYSTEMS

Kinect

The prototype content was transmitted through 9 SD cards that were inserted into the 9 panels of Dragon1. Once inserted it was impossible to pause, rewind or speed up the content. The only possible action was to reset the equipment and start the transmission from zero.

It was the first time that the creation of volumetric content was combined with human representations. but its preview or direct synchronization with audio was impossible. For synchronization with the audio, it was necessary to trigger the two signals separately with a simple electric trigger activated by a mouse.

Hardware

Body

model
DRAGON O

size / voxels

1 Module / 9 Panels - 34,560 Voxels - 4m²

Integrator

LedPulse
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