If you look at what people thought the future would look like years ago, in many ways it was way off the mark. Flying cars, meals in a single pill, an array of bizarre and unwieldy kitchen appliances, etc. Most things of the past's future have not been made. But when it comes to the design, the past...

Last month was another record breaking month for The Eureka Room. Revenue was up 36% and visitors up 44%. I haven't done the books but I suspect we might have had our first profitable month. Our best day was Veteran's Day, which was a rainy Friday. We seem to get the most people on Saturday, followe...

My favorite part of the Austin Studio Tour is more of the peripheral art of the tour: the experience-type stops on the tour. Things like The Eureka Room of Vision Gland’s psychedome or backyard rollercoaster. This year I was busy with work, but did make it out to a few (for lack of a better term) “i...

Throughout the many many showings I've hosted at The Eureka Room, I've noticed that some personality types prefer for certain programs. People who might be marginally participatory in the earlier programs get way more into Turkey Volcano. People who like chaos prefer the earlier programs. Obviously...

For years I've been waiting for the time when AI has reached a level where it can take my likeness and replace all movie heroes with it. It will be as simple as toggling closed captioning on and off. I click a button and it's me. If I'm watching reruns of Seinfeld or Friends, I can click a button an...

These Experience Rooms use AV recognition and AI to create games and activities. Puzzle Room You are in an empty room and just have to do something until the AI sees you do it. You might not get any clues. You move hands and arms, eventually you all jump at the same time. Then the room lights up and...

An early Eureka Room visitor once told me “so many of immersive experiences don’t feel as much of an experience as they do a demonstration of technology”. He articulated a feeling I had been having but was not able find the words for. To hear it expressed like this, the idea seems obvious. But when...

Things have been going well the last couple weeks. Here's a few updates. I hired a second employee, Christina. She's the co-worker and roommate of the first employee, Chelsea. They both have a lot of experience doing this sort of work and since they know each other that will hopefully help us co-ord...

Here's two quotes I read in the New York Times in the last few months. “In 1990, only 3 percent of Americans said they had no close friends; in 2021, nearly 12 percent said the same. The United States is in the grips of a loneliness crisis that predates the Covid pandemic.” "In a 2018 study by the K...

Much if not all of the focus on augmented or mixed reality involves a screen. A tablet, a phone, or a screen within a headset. So let's talk about screenless augmented reality. As I wrote about in part 1 of this post, you could have a bracelet that sends you messages though text or light. You might...