Ultramagic

Ultramagic

Ultramagic

Balloon flight simulator

Project Info

Client:
Fondation de l’Espace Ballon

Year:
2023

Summary

Have you ever looked up at a hot air balloon and wondered what it would be like to be a passenger in one of them? Or even better, to pilot a balloon by yourself over the beautiful mountainous Swiss landscape? You will no longer have to wonder.

Hop into the one-person basket, put on your VR headset, and take control of your very own balloon, taking off from Château-d’Œx and traversing the beautiful Pays-d’Enhaut. Based on a highly detailed 3D scan of the region, you’re transported into a realistic virtual representation of the area. Using nothing but your burners and parachute valve, you’re able to fly an accurately simulated hot air balloon across the landscape, while marveling at the sights and sounds the region has to offer. Don’t get too distracted though, you’ll still need to land safely.

The accuracy of the simulation allows for experienced pilots to hone their skills, while novice users can take a risk-free flight, and attempt to make a safe landing at the end of their experience. A variety of gamified flight modes challenges even the most experienced pilots to be precise not just in terms of navigation, but also their use of fuel. Follow the leader, land on a sequence of targets; the better you perform, the higher your score will be. And when joining the experience as a group, you’re able to not only see your fellow pilots, but you can also communicate with them through the radio in your basket.

The experience opens in January 2024 at Espace Ballon in Château-d’Œx.

Credits

Project direction
Frédéric Daenzer, Christophe Moinat – Fondation de l’Espace Ballon

VR platform, experience backend, user checkin, 3D content creation, gameplay and R&D
Artanim

3D landscape acquisition
Uzufly

Balloon flight simulation
Haute Ecole d’Ingénierie et d’Architecture de Fribourg (HEIA-FR)

Ticketing and cloud API
Cashflow and Webforge

Sound environment
Alain Renaud

Haptic devices
Raphaël Anderegg

The Giants of Kem Kem

The Giants of Kem Kem

The Giants of Kem Kem

Exhibition

Project Info

Client:
Ville de Genève

Year:
2015

Summary

We were contacted by the Natural History Museum of Geneva to create a serious game as part of the exhibition Faites comme chez nous: Les géants de Kem Kem.

This exhibition brings adolescents of 12-15 years in Morocco to look for unique dinosaur species. Through an interactive digital scenario, they share the daily life of a paleontologist, from digging the ground to the study of fossils.

Montreux Jazz Video Jukebox

Montreux Jazz Video Jukebox

Montreux Jazz Video Jukebox

Montreux Jazz Festival 2015

Project Info

Client:
Metamedia Center (EPFL)

 

Year:
2015

Summary

Experience 49 legendary musical moments like you have never seen or heard them before.

The immersive video jukebox developed in collaboration with EPFL allows users to interact naturally with a broad range of audio and visual content. User gestures are tracked by a motion capture system, sonified in real time, and used as a controller to navigate the best moments of the Montreux Jazz Festival digital concert archive.

The video jukebox was installed next to the entrance of Auditorium Stravinski during the Montreux Jazz Festival 2015.

Credits

Concept, software development and 3D sonification
Artanim

Coordination of the Montreux Jazz video archive
Metamedia Center (EPFL)

Audio hardware providers
PSI Audio (speakers) and Illusonic (real time surround sound upmixing)

3DIM @ Caprices

3DIM @ Caprices

3DIM @ Caprices

Caprices Festival 2015

Project Info

Client:
Caprices Festival

Year:
2015

Summary

3D In Motion (3DIM) was installed during the Caprices Festival 2015 in Crans-Montana. The setup combines motion capture and 3D visualizations. During the concerts, an interaction zone allows people to dance and their movements to be captured and converted into 3D graphics in real time. The generated visuals are then projected on a huge screen in the concert room.

The people could choose among six different 3D scenarios. Their individual performances were recorded and could be downloaded after the event.

Light Tracking

Light Tracking

Light Tracking

Baselworld 2013

Project Info

Client:
Kenzan SA

Year:
2013

Summary

Contracted by Kenzan SA, we created an innovative system for presenting objects or products. The Light Tracking system allows to illuminate a moving object and to display graphical content related to the presented object.

Here, the goal was to illuminate a watch. A video tracking system was developed in order to follow the movements of the watch. The tracked position was used to generate the projection of the lighting and graphics around the watch.

This system was used for Omega’s press conferences at Baselworld 2013.

Credits

Concept and design
Kenzan SA

System development
Artanim