Crossroads San Mateo: Interactive Exhibit

The Crossroads Installation is an innovative, interactive lobby experience tying together three separate offices with landscapes inspired by northern California’s natural beauty.   In each lobby, a series of vertical digital displays presents a stylized, panoramic 3D landscape. Created in a custom video game engine, the animated flora and fauna in the scenes respond to human motion. For example, when someone walks into the lobby, a "gust of wind" rustles the leaves, and the animals make eye contact or are startled. Visitors thus become active participants in the landscape, producing an immersive user experience.

Real-time weather data also informs the landscapes. If it's raining outside, it's raining in these worlds. The scenes also have full day/night cycles, with beautiful sunrises and sunsets timed to the beginning and end of each work day.