Smithsonian Women In Space MR Experience
Defying Gravity: Women in Space
OVerview
An augmented reality installation underneath the Enterprise space shuttle that celebrates the often overlooked history of women in the American space program. Visitors wear a HoloLens headset and a life-sized hologram of the first woman of color in space Dr. Mae Jemison introduces them to the work of the pioneering women at Smithsonian’s Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.
ROLE
Associate Creative Director
CLIENTS
The Smithsonian, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, Microsoft
TEAM
Listen, Zengalt
The Experience
Using archival imagery and holograms the experience brings to life the pivotal contributions of the Harvard Computers, Mercury 13, Katherine Johnson, Patricia Cowings, and Sally Ride. Dr. Jemison also shares her journey to and experience in space.
The HoloLens also acts as X-ray goggles letting visitors to peer through the real life space shuttle show the different compartments and opens the ship’s cargo bay doors to witness a space walk.
Experience Flow
““Women don’t need to ask permission to be included. We’ve been here. We are here.””
Dr. Jemison was volumetrically captured to create her life-sized hologram in Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Capture Studio.
The project launch as a tentpole attraction to Smithsonian’s nationwide Museum Day.
Installation images by Listen.
