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Interactive & Physical Experiences

Experiences that respond to the people in the room.

Interactive and mixed-reality ideas are easy to pitch and hard to judge until someone stands in the room and tries them on real hardware, and once they work, staff need a way to run them for a group.

For venues, studios, and brands that want a room, a headset, or a character to respond to the people in front of it.

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Puttscape gameplay from the player’s view: a white ball on a green course with wooden rails, a stack of barrels, a character standing at the far end, and the putter in the foreground.
A hole in play: the course is laid out on the floor the headset scanned.

Worked example

A game that fits the room it is played in

Puttscape is mixed-reality mini-golf: the headset scans the room and a generator fits a hole to the floor it finds, so the same game works in rooms of any size and shape. We moved the game to AR Foundation so one Unity codebase builds for Meta Quest 3 and Android XR, and built the procedural generator, hand tracking, putter physics, and theme packs on top.

For venue play we built the native client library, shipped as a Unity package, that connects the game to Spatial Venue, our venue server, which keeps the ball, scores, and course in one session and gives staff a live status page and a command-line control tool.

Diagram in three steps: the headset maps the floor and its edges, a generator lays out a hole that fits the scanned room, and players putt a virtual ball on the real floor. One codebase builds for Meta Quest 3 and Android XR, and a venue client connects the game to the Spatial Venue server.
How the game works. A diagram, not a gameplay capture.

Read the case study: Puttscape: Mixed-Reality Mini-Golf

How it works

  • Spatial Venue

    keeps every headset in the room in one server-authoritative session and gives staff one view of the floor.

  • XR foundation

    is the Unity starting point that builds for Meta Quest 3 and Android XR from one codebase.

  • DASP

    is the open protocol designed so lighting, sound, projection, and robots can follow the experience as device nodes.

  • Venue devices

    discovers the headsets on the venue network and reports battery, tracking, and frame rate to the status page.

  • Spatial OS

    is designed to run walls, floor, ceiling, and a robot host as one experience when a room is the stage.

What we can build

  • XR and mixed reality

    Unity and Unreal experiences for Meta Quest, Android XR, and Apple Vision Pro from one codebase.

  • Procedural worlds

    Courses, levels, and layouts generated to fit a scanned room or to change between visits.

  • Venue infrastructure

    A server that keeps every headset in one session and gives staff one view of the floor.

  • Interactive characters

    Characters with a persona and a voice that respond to guests, on a screen, a projection, or a robot.

  • Show control and robotics

    Lighting, sound, projection, and robots that follow the experience through an open control protocol.

  • Operator tools

    A command-line control tool and a live status page for the people who run the floor, plus simulated players for load tests.

Projects

Projects in this area.

  • A wall-sized God’s Eye View globe inside The Rectangle, lit in blue: a weather radar and a hurricane over the Americas, live camera thumbnails for Seattle, New York, and Miami, and a layers panel on the left. A visitor points at the globe while a white robot beside him holds a tablet.

    Experiences & Worlds

    God’s Eye View at The Rectangle

    A concept for exploring the Earth across a room through a voice-guided globe, public data, interactive projection, and a robot guide.

  • The Puttscape wordmark in white over a glowing blue hexagonal grid.

    Experiences & Worlds

    Puttscape: Mixed-Reality Mini-Golf

    Mixed-reality mini-golf on Meta Quest 3 and Android XR from one codebase, with holes generated from the scanned room and a venue client that connects the game to our Spatial Venue server.

  • Five visitors face a wall-sized projection of Agent City inside The Rectangle, with districts labeled Plan, Build, Test, Create, Learn, and Deploy, while a white robot with a screen reading "Ask me anything" points at the map.

    Systems & Research

    The Rectangle

    A working creative space in Santa Cruz for DJ rehearsals, media production, and XR experiments, supported by an agent-ready booking website.

All projects

Where to start

Experience pilot

Who it is for
A venue, studio, or brand with a room and an audience, and an interactive idea that has not been tried with real people.
The problem
Interactive and mixed-reality ideas are easy to pitch and hard to judge until someone stands in the room and tries them on real hardware.
What you get
One room or one interaction, built and tested with a small group of guests on the hardware the venue has or we bring. You get a short report on what worked, what did not, and what a full build would need.
What you bring
  • The space, or the hardware the experience should run on
  • One contact who can make decisions about the room and the content
  • A window of a few days for the test with guests
  • Any existing content: characters, art, music, a brand guide
What you learn
Whether the interaction holds attention and runs on the hardware, how staff run it, and what a full build would need.
Evidence

Next step

Plan an experience

Get in touch

Tell us what you have in mind.

Describe it in a few sentences. You get a draft brief to review before anything is sent.

Plan an experience Email hello@dreamawakelabs.com

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