Project case study
Heroes of Zabaykalye
Visitors choose a hero of the region and become him in seconds: a neural network places their face into the portrait, and the photo goes home by QR code.
- Client
- Zabaykalsky Krai pavilion
- Venue
- VDNKh, Moscow
- Completed
The challenge
Make the region’s heroes personal for a stream of exhibition visitors and give each of them a souvenir to share.
What Awake! delivered
A Unity application with a local face-swap neural network: the visitor picks a hero, the camera captures the face, and the finished portrait with a branded frame appears on screen with a QR code. Hero names and texts live in external files, so the stand team edits them without a new build. Because the venue internet was unstable, we changed the order: the photo is shown first, and the QR code appears once the upload finishes.
Outcome
At its peak the booth processed 898 photos in a day and a half.
Technologies and methods
Unity, local face-swap neural network, QR delivery