Stimulant

11/16/2023

Our new Chip Fab Tour exhibit for Intel is a winner in the 2024 Communication Arts Interactive Annual, and a finalist in this year's 2023 DSE Dizzies! See how we take visitors inside the world's most complex manufacturing process via and . https://stimulant.com/fabtour

11/09/2023

Exciting takeaways from the 2023 Augmented Enterprise Summit! 🚀 We explored the XR world through the lens of enterprise users and discovered some incredible advancements in assisted, augmented, virtual, and mixed reality. Check out our summary to learn more!

We're back from the Augmented Enterprise Summit, where we experienced the XR world through the lens of enterprise users. From VR training to AR remote assistance, the state of XR in the enterprise is evolving rapidly. Find out more in our latest article!

11/07/2023

We've been too busy for too long, so we treated ourselves to a little self-care. Check out our new look, new website, and fresh new case studies!

09/20/2023

New exhibit in the works for Hawai'i Keiki Museum…

03/16/2023

We used data visualization to rethink the traditional donor wall for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Colorful, responsive, and infinitely reconfigurable, the filterable and searchable Donor Quilt lets visitors create unique quilts as they dive deeply into the roots of African American philanthropy.

03/14/2023

Stimulant's Digital Donor Experience for The Smithsonian Institution NMAAHC celebrates its community through a digital "quilt" that places all levels of giving as integral to the collective whole.

Our good friends at Belle & Wissell, Co. provided design leadership, in collaboration with Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture's internal exhibit + development teams, Electrosonic for AV integration, and Explus for fabrication.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) wanted to tell the story of African American philanthropy, viewed through the lens of the generous support given to bring the National Mall’s newest Smithsonian museum to life. The exhibit needed to celebrate named supporters, de...

05/18/2022

What do you do when your museum closes down for the pandemic, but your mission is still relevant? You take the entire experience online, and extend its reach globally in the process.

The Virtual Intel Museum is a new platform for sharing Intel's history and explaining the core concepts behind computing and chipmaking. It includes a fully explorable 3D version of the museum, along with unique content (including 3D scans of rare products) and videos that can't be found anywhere else.

Happy International Museum Day!

Take a walk through a 3D tour of the Intel Museum in Santa Clara, CA, and explore the world of Intel. Step inside to view microprocessors at every angle in 3D, explore over 50 years of history, listen to recordings of the Intel founders. Learn about the science and fabrication of semiconductors and....

10/20/2020

Freetouch is now globally available!

05/12/2020

Our friends at the Intel Museum pulled together a great tour video that features cameos from the dozen or so interactive exhibits we've created for them over the past eight years. This corporate museum captures Intel's history and influence on the tech industry, and is a Silicon Valley must-see.

Every year, more than 85,000 people – many with student tours and field trips – visit the Intel Museum at Intel’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California.

11/26/2019

The Reagan Ranch Center exists to preserve and give the public a view into Ronald Reagan’s “Western White House,” Ranch del Cielo in the Santa Ynez Mountains outside of Santa Barbara, CA. The Center uses the ranch as a lens to provide unique insight into the man himself not available at the Reagan presidential library. As the ranch itself is not in a position to handle thousands of visitors per year, however, the Center was built with an interpretive gallery and visitor center in downtown Santa Barbara that hosts tours and special events year-round.

The centerpiece of the gallery is the new interactive timeline, consisting of five multitouch displays that let visitors explore the events that occurred while the Reagans owned the ranch. Ranging from intimate (home videos of President Reagan chopping wood at the ranch the day after he won re-election) to world-changing (the collapse of the USSR), the timeline presents precious letters, photographs, interviews and memorabilia in high-resolution that describe a detailed portrait of the man across nearly three decades. Topic filters support theme-based storytelling, allowing for docent-led and self-directed explorations of storylines such as the Cold War, great speeches, and the conservative movement, to name a few.

Running in stunning UHD resolution, visitors use familiar pinch-zoom and swipe gestures to flip through artifacts in great detail as if they were digging through the drawers of Reagan’s desk. Custom-designed enclosures made from 100+-year-old reclaimed wood and corrugated steel feel like something that might have been found on the ranch, and state-of-the-art directional audio ensures that audio and video playback doesn’t bleed over from one station to another. The entire system is powered by an online CMS that enables easy expansion and editing from any web browser, ensuring that Reagan’s personal legacy will always be as tangible and accessible as he was in real life.

Stimulant is an innovation studio that brings spaces to life by transforming them into pioneering, any-scale interactive environments.