Perfect Prototype imagined and produced an Augmented Reality brain for Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.

The two Augmented Reality Brain kiosks are part of the museum’s “YOU! The Experience” gallery.  The exhibit allows visitors to play four “brain games” and then learn about the functions of a virtual brain that they can maneuver and explore.  With amazing 3D models and animation and the ability to use a small tabletop for eight different learning modules, the Brain exhibits illustrate the range and flexibility of Augmented Reality technology.   The games are not only fun but teach users how their brains  function while playing.

• virtual puzzle-piece shape sorter game
  Users physically rotate a virtual puzzle-piece that is hovering above the 2D card in their hands and insert the correct piece in the matching keyholes.   On the flip side of the card is a virtual brain that illustrates how it was working while they played the game.
• Simon Says musical game
  This musical game turns the 2D card into a virtual keyboard.  The user repeats back the three rounds of increasingly difficult note sequences that are played.  Flipping over the card, a virtual brain appears and shows what was happening in the brain during the game.
• Catch-the-ball game
  The game compares a novice’s brain with that of a professional when playing sports. The visitor uses a cup to capture balls – basketballs, soccer balls, golf balls, and even cue balls – as the drop onto the tabletop, which has turned into a ball-drop zone.  Then, once again, by turning over the card, the user can see and learn how the brain functioned for that exercise.
  
• Memory Matching game
  The point of this game is to explain how the brain stores memories, grows neurons and dendrites, and communicates over synapses. The 2D card becomes a playing field where ever more complex 3D objects are displayed, and the visitor must remember and match the correct object from all the possible choices.  Then, he or she can see how the brain processed that information.

Perfect Prototype teamed up with Unified Field and Thinc Design to create the exhibit.

Says Patricia L. Ward, Director, Science & Technology at the Museum of Science and Industry, about the exhibit:  ”The Brain exhibit is a really unique, fun way to learn about how the brain works. It’s visually amazing and fits very well in the overall exhibit explores your personal life and health.”

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