EVENT · Blijdorp Zoo
KIOSK · trade show
PRINT · instantInteractive photo and video experiences for major brand activations — ING Bank, Fox Sport, Yumble, Blijdorp Zoo. Real-time green screen with Kinect v2 depth sensing, gesture-based interaction, instant print/share. Two generations of shipping kiosk hardware.
Event activations need an interactive photo experience that feels instant: stand in front of a camera, pick a background with a gesture, see yourself composited in real time, walk out with a printed or shared photo. Traditional chroma-key fails on anything other than a controlled studio green — event venues aren't controlled.
The experience also has to survive a trade-show floor: 8 hours of continuous operation, untrained operators, unpredictable lighting, sticky fingers on touchscreens. Every failure mode produces an angry brand manager.
Invested in Kinect v2 depth sensing for subject isolation instead of relying on chroma-key. Depth works in any venue lighting, needs no green backdrop, and produces cleaner edges on hair and loose clothing than spill-contaminated chroma. Higher hardware cost; dramatically higher reliability at events.
Wrote the real-time compositing shaders directly. Off-the-shelf compositing tools were either too slow for real-time or required ops-level tuning per venue. A purpose-built GPU pipeline gave predictable 60fps with room for effects, and we owned every layer of the visual output.
Kinect v2 was a platform dependency — Microsoft EOL'd it mid-deployment cycle. We built a second-generation kiosk around the next-gen depth sensor before the first-gen became unreplaceable. Custom shader pipeline means no off-the-shelf staff can tune it; accepted because event operations went through our team anyway.
PRINT · instantDelivered for ING Bank (2 versions), Fox Sport, Yumble (€33k contract), Blijdorp Zoo, and others. Two generations of shipping kiosk hardware carrying live brand activations. The platform evolved from a single installation into a repeatable event product that could be configured per client in days, not weeks.
First branded activation for ING. Kinect v2 pipeline, real-time compositing, instant-share flow. Learnings from 8-hour event-floor operation folded back into the platform.
Turned the one-off into a configurable platform. Fox Sport brand activation. Yumble contracted as a €33k single engagement. Per-client configuration in days.
Kinect v2 EOL flagged. Designed second-generation kiosk around a newer depth sensor before first-gen became unreplaceable. Shader pipeline migrated.
Long-running installation at Rotterdam Zoo. Runs unattended in a public venue with thousands of daily visitors and untrained staff escalations.
"A shipping hardware product with custom shaders and depth sensing, running unattended for thousands of daily visitors. Every brand activation shipped on time."
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