Museum of the City of New York: NY At Its Core (NYAIC)
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The New York At Its Core (NYAIC) exhibit at the MCNY offers immersive explorations of the city’s past, present, and future, through a variety of innovative interactive experiences. The exhibits use a variety of interactive technologies to educate and engage visitors in different facets of New York.
Interactive touch interfaces are a standard mode to allow visitors to dig into stories. To put them into digital totems changed the mechanism of interaction, where visitors engaged with content in the space, rather than just with a screen on a wall. The use of depth cameras to navigate content created a new language for interaction.
These technologies and interaction modalities allow visitors to engage dynamically with the city’s evolution.
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Interactive touch interfaces are a standard mode to allow visitors to dig into stories. But to put them into vertical plinths changed the mechanism of interaction, where visitors engaged with content in the space, rather than just with a screen on a wall. The use of depth cameras to navigate content created a new language for interaction.
These technologies and interaction modalities allow visitors to engage dynamically with the city’s evolution.
In the Future City Lab, visitors build their own city, making urban planning decisions that reveal the consequences of various choices, from housing and transportation to sustainability. This hands-on experience helps illustrate the complexity of shaping a resilient, thriving urban environment, to every age and demographic of visitors.
This project required a lot of engineering and technical ingenuity, and close coordination between the Creative Technology, and AV teams to deliver successfully.
Studio: Local Projects
Creative Director: Jake Barton
Director of Technology: Sundar Raman
Lead Creative Technologist: Gal Sasson, Jason Levine
Lead Designer: Kim Gim
AV Team: BBI Engineering
Project Manager: Kate Watson