![]() ![]() For the first ten minutes, they will experience real-time interactive projection mapping on the floor of the Promenade and discover alien sea creatures as they swim, swirl and sway around their feet. Once completed, the installation will create an extraordinary 15-minute experience for visitors. The full Odyssey experience, which has been manufactured at the Blackpool Illuminations Lightworks factory, and has taken more than two years to design and build will be exhibited during the extended Illuminations season which ends on January 2, 2023. This preview is a small taste of the full deployment of a high-tech interactive experience, which will feature two further towers, and the creation of an 18 metre long digitally projected path that interacts with visitors. The free attraction will remain in place during Lightpool Festival, which runs until October 29. ![]() Aphrodite, the tallest of the towers, is an impressive 7 metres wide, and 11 metres high!Īs a special preview to give a flavour of the coming installation, four of the towers will be unveiled on the Tower Festival Headland on the evening of Friday 21 October as part of the annual Lightpool Festival and to mark the start of the main October half-term school holidays. The towers comprise varying designs based on sea gods from Greek mythology: Poseidon, Aphrodite, and Amphitrite. The completed Odyssey installation will comprise six large-scale towers combined with state-of-the-art technology to create an immersive projection show themed on undiscovered creatures lurking in the depths of the deep sea. Odyssey will be a spectacular interactive display co-created by international designer Jack Irving in collaboration with a highly-talented team of computer scientists from Lancaster University. ![]()
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