VISIT WONDERLAND
Wonderland is Mad's demonstration and development environment in Orange, California. Bring a story, a space or an operating challenge, and explore the relevant audiovisual, interactive and personalized media capabilities with our team.
Visits by appointment · Orange, California
A place to connect the idea with the installation
Wonderland brings live audiovisual exhibits together with development and integration work. Displays, projection, sound, interaction and personal devices let a visit connect a design decision to a physical experience.
QuickSilver® provides the computing foundation. Our team also builds, configures, programs and tests project systems here before installation. A permanent multi-monitor production setup supports that preparation alongside the demonstration environment.
A focused visit starts with what you want to understand. We can agree which demonstrations, content and equipment are relevant, and which questions need a separate test or further project engineering.
Experience Mad Hatter™
Ask to experience Mad Presence™, Hatter’s head-tracked loudspeaker listening. Two speakers per listener position render an authored spatial scene that responds as the listener turns and moves within the configured region. The working Mac demonstration also supports suitable headphones and earbuds.
Bring the listening positions, the story and the surrounding exhibits into the conversation. We can connect the demonstration to the configuration and acoustic testing needed for your proposed arrangement.
The demonstration establishes what its particular configuration can do. A larger room, multiple listeners, neighboring exhibits or a guidance application requires its own integration and acoustic verification. We will agree on the listening arrangement and what the demonstration is intended to show before your visit.
Mad Nulling™ is our ongoing work to reduce the effect of one exhibit’s sound on adjacent exhibits. Bring the neighboring exhibits and listening positions into the conversation so we can identify the development, integration and measurements your project would need.
One place. Several ways into the story.
The facility includes an overhead projection dome, an eight-channel mapped-video setup, life-size avatar presentations, touchless controls and LCD and electronic-ink labels. They provide practical ways to discuss visual composition, sight lines, content updates and interaction.
Those examples can help a team evaluate how an exhibit tells its story and how its physical form supports the people using it.
Alice®, Alice® Avatars and Alice® OnBoard demonstrate how the same subject can become different media for children of different ages, teenagers, adults and visitors with different interests. Lory® adds personal media delivery and access formats alongside the shared experience.
A visit can examine how language, explanation and accessible formats fit the same story. We will confirm the relevant authored content and supported listening or display equipment when planning the demonstration.
Spatial soundscapes, TeaParty® control, timing, sensors and interactive inputs let us explore how a presentation behaves as an environment. Existing CaterPillar™ demonstrations use physical audio cues to explore nonvisual guidance.
Newer Hatter guidance combinations have their own development and integration requirements. We can discuss that architecture while identifying what the available demonstration actually establishes.
From a demonstration to the life of a venue
Mad Intelligence™ describes how the designer's intent can remain connected to available capability, physical delivery, evidence and the next permitted response throughout an installation's life. Hatter applies that continuing approach to the acoustic experience.
WorldModel™ provides the broader context, consent and governance architecture. QuickSilver supplies a practical computing foundation on which the required functions can be integrated.
Working demonstrations, published architecture and completed project integration establish different things. During a visit, we distinguish the behavior you can experience, the architecture being developed and the engineering needed for your installation. The project specification defines what is included; commissioning establishes its behavior under the agreed conditions.
Plan your visit
Wonderland is open by appointment at Mad's headquarters. Tell us what you want to explore, who will attend, and any access needs or preferred languages. We can plan the examples and equipment around a useful conversation.
733 N Main Street
Orange, CA 92868, USA
LET’S BUILD WHAT COMES NEXT
Bring a creative brief, a recurring operating challenge or a capability you want to experience. We will plan a focused visit with the relevant demonstrations and people.
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