Imagine walking into an aviation gallery and choosing your guide: a pressure-suited astronaut, a g-suit-clad test pilot, a grease-pencil aircraft designer, or a rocket scientist clutching a coffee-stained notebook. These avatar docents are vividly present — breathing, blinking, and shifting weight like real people. You choose whom to explore with, tell them your age, language, and interests, and your private tour begins.
The venue owns the Body of Knowledge that drives all Avatar content — they control the narrative, the accuracy, and the depth. Because every combination of character, interest, and depth level generates a different experience, repeat visits become genuinely compelling: guests return to explore with a different guide, choose different interests, and discover content they've never encountered before. Our roadmap includes Alice® Avatars accompanying visitors through WonderLens™ spatial AR — combining patented and patent-pending technology for guided experiences where digital characters walk alongside you through physical exhibits.
Come back next month, select a different guide, and the same collection morphs into a brand-new narrative — no flag-waving docent, no twenty-person herd, just a one-to-one deep dive at whatever pace feels right. Every story is drawn from the venue's own Body of Knowledge — the institution controls the content, not the AI.
On the roadmap: Alice® Avatars accompanying visitors through WonderLens™ spatial AR — combining patented and patent-pending technology so that a digital expert walks beside you through the real world, pointing at actual artifacts and explaining what you're seeing in your language, at your level.
Pop-Up Companions, Not Static Kiosks
Avatar docents don't park beside a touchscreen waiting to be poked. They phase in exactly where curiosity spikes. Linger over an artifact and your chosen expert appears at your elbow with context. Ask them to explain in more detail and the story unfolds. Stroll past without stopping and they politely stay out of sight, keeping the gallery uncluttered.
How It Works
QuickSilver® Backbone
Runs on rugged, commodity mini-PCs — think high-spec gaming rigs, not black-box appliances. Need to double GPU power for holographic shaders? Pop the lid and swap a card. Non-proprietary, guaranteeing future spares.
Alice® AI Personalization
Hyper-personalizes every visit. Facial & demographic recognition clocks language preference, visitor type (quick scanner, curious browser, or deep-dive sponge), and tailors content in real time from curated Bodies of Knowledge.
CheshireCat® Recognition
Fully private, ~0.5 second recognition with no internet dependency. Recognizes returning visitors, tracks family groups, and enables personalized avatar responses without any data leaving the venue.
Lory® Accessibility
Flawless speech synthesis, real-time captions, sign-language avatars, and Bluetooth audio streamed to hearing aids — no trenching floors for loop coils. ListenAssist™ for Bluetooth-equipped hearing aids.
Recognizing Avatars
Alice® Avatars don't just present — they recognize. Combined with CheshireCat® recognition technology, avatar docents know who they're talking to. A returning visitor gets continuity: "Welcome back — last time we stopped at the lunar module. Ready to continue?" A family group gets age-appropriate content for the kids while delivering expert knowledge to the parents. A visitor who switches from the pilot to the rocket scientist mid-visit gets a seamless handoff: the new guide knows what you've already seen.
This recognition is fully private. No data leaves the venue. No cloud dependency. No personal identity is stored. CheshireCat® operates with privacy as the default — the venue receives the answer ("returning visitor, interested in engineering"), never the document.
Sign Language Avatars
Alice® Avatars include full ASL (American Sign Language) signing capability. Deaf and hard-of-hearing visitors receive the same rich, personalized storytelling as every other guest — delivered by their chosen expert docent in fluent sign language. This isn't a subtitle overlay or a separate accessibility mode. The avatar itself signs, with proper facial grammar, co-articulation, and natural motion.
Proof at Home: Samtoo
Walk into Mad Systems HQ and you meet Samtoo, our Virtual Receptionist — a live Alice® Avatar. Samtoo greets staff and visitors by name, checks schedules, cracks tailored jokes, and naturally poses for selfies when asked. Need Korean for tomorrow's delegation? The language pack was uploaded during lunch, with no downtime and no vendor service call.
Why Everyone Wins
Guests
Endless perspectives from one building. Families return to hear different experts. Every visit is different. No crowds, no waiting — a private tour without the private tour price.
Curators & Educators
Full editorial control. Update the knowledge base overnight. Spin up limited-time avatars for events. Analytics show which objects spark questions and where curiosity drops off.
Leadership & Finance
Future-proof commodity PC infrastructure. Modular upgrades. Revenue upside through repeat visits, premium ticket tiers, and brand-sponsored personas.
Accessibility
ASL signing avatars, multi-language support (100+ languages), Bluetooth hearing aid streaming, and age-appropriate content delivery — all from one system.
