Project case study
Porthole: say hello from space
At a console built into a spaceship porthole the visitor types a name and gets their photo taken; a cosmonaut floating above waves, and the greeting runs along his LED display.
- Client
- National Centre “Russia”
- Venue
- Travel Gallery, Moscow
- Completed
The challenge
Make the region’s space theme — the Vostochny cosmodrome — something a visitor takes part in, not just looks at.
What Awake! delivered
A touch interface with a menu, a style choice and an on-screen keyboard; the camera takes a photo and a neural network recognises the face. Controllers on COM ports open the cosmonaut’s helmet and wave his arm, and a running line shows the greeting on the LED display. A filter removes forbidden words from names.
Outcome
The porthole works in the Far East zone of the Travel Gallery; in 2026 the client ordered an English version.
Technologies and methods
Unity, face recognition, COM-port controllers, LED running line