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Interactive Retail Display Spotted @ the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference

Friday, August 17th, 2012

Two members from our team, Alan Shimoide (Director of Engineering) and Grant Stevens (Sales and Strategic Development) were fortunate enough to attend the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Toronto, Canada last month. This conference is held every year and brings together all of Microsoft’s partners around the globe to showcase innovative ways to use Microsoft technologies. Since we’re all about innovation here at Snibbe Interactive, we took this opportunity to demonstrate our award-winning SocialMirror Coke Kiosk and adjacent SocialShare component using the Kinect.

WPC is the only event of its kind, allowing companies from all over the world in various industries to cross paths and engage on an enterprise level. Alan and Grant rubbed elbows with top companies in advertising, education, and government as well as those in our own field.  Snibbe was one of the first companies to adapt the Kinect to commercial gestural exhibits and displays last year, and is a partner and distributor for the new, more powerful, Kinect for Windows SDK. We are a member of the Kinect for Windows Advisory Council, the Technology Adoption Program (TAP) initiative, and we are developing products using Microsoft’s PixelSense technology on the Samsung SUR40.

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The Communicator Awards Honors SocialMirror™ Kiosk TWICE!

Friday, May 11th, 2012

When Coke Cola Bottlers Consolidated Companies (CCBCC) came to us for a fun interactive game they could use for a promotional opportunity we brainstormed about how we could play with the soft drink in an imaginative way that was also mobile and completely plug and play. We decided on an interactive display to inspire a social game that gets people moving and uses your body to direct a virtual stream of Coke Cola into a glass. Coke Pouring Kiosk uses our SocialMirror™ technology in a simple game that invites open ended play and attracts attention. Shoppers can share their experience, via our SocialShare™ Kiosk to friends and families in their social networks.

The Communicator Awards in Corporate Imagery & Gaming

SocialMirror™ Coke Kiosk won two awards; one for Excellence in the Corporate Image Category, and another Award of Distinction in the Gaming Category.  The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program recognizing big ideas in marketing and communications so this is a nice complement. We are blushing… Thanks Communicator Awards!

 

 

 

Communication Arts gives SocialStage™ an Entertainment Award

Saturday, April 28th, 2012

Performance Capture at EMP

What do you get when you mix a world-class music, sci-fi, and pop culture museum with a socially immersive firm, and James Cameron’s famous vision for cinema? An award-winning interactive exhibit!

We are thrilled to announce that the Performance Capture Interactive for Avatar: The Exhibition, powered by Snibbe Interactive’s SocialStage™, won an Entertainment Award from Communication Arts in their 18th Interactive Annual. Read more about the award in their March/April issue!

Here at Snibbe Interactive we love to create socially immersive experiences, so when EMP Museum in Seattle came to us to help develop several immersive exhibits for Avatar: The Exhibition, we stepped up to the challenge. Working deep in partnership with EMP Museum, we developed several immersive interactives for the Museum’s larger exhibition. One of the interactives was the Performance Capture Interactive using SocialStage™, which uses similar technology as James Cameron did to capture the performance of his actors and set them in a virtual world. At EMP visitors can take a virtual walkthrough of Pandora itself.  Visitors enter a motion capture volume and are scanned by 14 cameras,  receive stage directions from James Cameron himself (via video of course), see themselves rendered as a Na’vi character, and perform a scene from Avatar, all without the motion-capture suit! Visitors can then receive a link to their videos posted on YouTube via SocialShare™.

The entire exhibition showcases behind-the-scenes development of the movie and includes props, concept art, sound design and more, so movie fans get a chance to see how the ideas behind the film came to life.

Currently on view at EMP Museum until September of 2012 Avatar: The Exhibition is hitting the road as a traveling exhibition this October. It will be at TheMuseum in Kitchner, Ontario and other locations through 2014.  If you are around please stop by and become your very own avatar and experience Performance Capture Interactive first hand.

EMP Visitor as a Na'vi Character

SocialStage Platform