A live-animation system from Alterface (www.alterface.com) in Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium, uses no wires or sensors. “We detect the position of people, their movement, and their interaction with a laser gun, and we can see them with a camera,” says Olivier Vincent, Alterface’s content and communications manager. “Thanks to our Salto software, it reacts to the camera [image] in real time, and the media is played in real time, with no delay.” 

Alterface employs this system at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels. There, a pachycephalosaurus interactive dinosaur follows visitors’ movements and plays around with them (a video of this interaction is on YouTube; search “dance with the dinosaurs Alterface”).

Alterface is currently developing the “Crazy Circus,” which will have four themed interactive rooms, featuring animated and interactive flying bats, penguins, and a charging rhino, all responsive to guests within the room.

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