London Science Museum – Wellcome Wing

"In an extraordinary digital landscape, the Digitopolis gallery defines the nature and origins of digital technology, demonstrates what this technology can do today, and discloses options for tomorrow." It is composed of five areas – sounds digital, being digital, networking people, future machines and digital visions. In Digital Visions, visitors can be cloned in 3D with 3Q's face capture station.

Exhibit Purpose: To enable visitors to experience "Digital Vision" by digitizing them in 3D and providing interactive entertainment.

3Q Exhibit Experience:

• You walk into 3Q's 3D image capture station.
• Once you sit down, you will be looking at an electronic screen, which is designed, along with a voice guide, to walk you through the digital cloning process.
• With your command controls (a button and tracker ball) to your right, your voice guide walks you through the process of positioning your head so your face is lined up with the synchronized digital cameras.
• Once you are in position, you click the button and are captured in less than a second.
• Within a few seconds your 3D digital image, or clone, is processed and ready for your 3-dimensional electronic experience, where you can:
  • view your 3D image from all angles,
  • distort by inflating or deflating, or
  • change surface textures to a slick gold, a wood texture, an orange peel, a wireframe or even a tiger or leopard mask

Once you are done creating and playing with your 3D clone, it is displayed in a colorful jungle environment.

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